PaCMan : Parallel Corpus Management Workbench
Diptesh Kanojia, Manish Shrivastava, Raj Dabre, Pushpak Bhattacharyya · 2014
We present a Parallel Corpora Manage-ment tool that aides parallel corpora gen-eration for the task of Machine Translation (MT). It takes source and target text of a corpus for any language pair in text file format, or zip archives containing multi-ple corresponding text files. Then, it pro-vides with a helpful interface to lexicog-raphers for manual translation / validation, and gives out the corrected text files as out-put. It provides various dictionary refer-ences as help within the interface which increase the productivity and efficiency of a lexicographer. It also provides automatic translation of the source sentence using an integrated MT system. The tool interface includes a corpora management system which facilitates maintenance of parallel corpora by assigning roles such as man-ager, lexicographer etc. We have designed a novel tool that provides aides like ref-erences to various dictionary sources such as Wordnets, Shabdkosh, Wikitionary etc. We also provide manual word alignment correction which is visualized in the tool and can lead to its gamification in the fu-ture, thus, providing a valuable source of word / phrase alignments. 1