Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles

Overview

Unique Features

1. A precise and large-scale corpus containing about 500,000 pairs of manually-translated sentences.
• Can be exploited for research and development of high-performance multilingual machine translation, information extraction, and so on.


2. The three-step translation process (primary translation -> secondary translation to improve fluency -> final check for technical terms) has been clearly recorded.
• Enables observation of how translations have been elaborated so it can be applied for uses such as research and development relevant to translation aids and error analysis of human translation.


3. Translated articles concern Kyoto and other topics such as traditional Japanese culture, religion, and history.
• Can also be utilized for tourist information translation or to create glossaries for travel guides.


4. The Japanese-English Bilingual Kyoto Lexicon is also available. This lexicon was created by extracting the Japanese-English word pairs from this corpus.

Contents

• What's New
• Precautions
• Sample
• Categories
• Download
• License

What's New

• 2010-10-27 Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles Version 1.0 released
  
• 2010-12-20 Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles Version 2.0 released
  
• 2011-01-13 Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles Version 2.01 released
  
  • A bugfix release that has all known small bugs and omissions fixed since the release of Version 2.0.

Precautions

• NICT has created this corpus by translating Japanese Wikipedia articles into English and has made it publicly available under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Users of the corpus are advised to read Wikipedia's copyright policy carefully to ensure proper usage.
• The content of the selected Wikipedia articles have been translated for this corpus. Users of the corpus are requested to take careful consideration when encountering any instances of defamation, discriminatory terms, or personal information that might be found within the corpus.
• NICT bears no responsibility for the contents of the corpus and the lexicon and assumes no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss whatsoever that may be incurred as a result of using the corpus or the lexicon.
• If any copyright infringement or other problems are found in the corpus or the lexicon, please contact us at kyoto-corpus[at]khn[dot]nict[dot]go[dot]jp. We will review the issue and undertake appropriate measures when needed.

Sample

• <j>Original Japanese sentence<j>
• <e type="trans" ver="1">Primary translation</e>
• <e type="trans" ver="2">Secondary translation</e>
• <e type="check" ver="1">Final translation</e>
• <cmt>Comment added by translators</cmt>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<art orl="ja" trl="en">
<inf>jawiki-20080607-pages-articles.xml</inf>
<tit>
<j>龍安寺</j>
 <e type="trans" ver="1">Ryoan-ji Temple</e>
 <cmt></cmt>
 <e type="trans" ver="2">Ryoan-ji Temple</e>
 <cmt>修正なし</cmt>
 <e type="check" ver="1">Ryoan-ji Temple</e>
 <cmt>修正なし</cmt>
</tit>
<par id="1">
 <sen id="1">
  <j>龍安寺（りょうあんじ）は、京都府京都市右京区にある臨済宗妙心寺派の寺院。</j>
   <e type="trans" ver="1">Ryoan-ji is a temple in the Myoshinji branch of the
   Rinzai sect, and is located in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto.</e>
   <cmt></cmt>
   <e type="trans" ver="2">Ryoan-ji is a temple that belongs to the Myoshinji
   school of the Rinzai sect, and is located in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto city.</e>
   <cmt>妙心寺派の｢派」はschoolの方がよく用いられている。｢妙心寺派の」という表現は｢妙心寺
   派に属する」という意味である。｢京都市」だけを訳出してあるので、cityを添えた。</cmt>
   <e type="check" ver="1">A temple belonging to the Myoshinji school of the
   Rinzai sect, Ryoan-ji Temple is located in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto city.</e>
   <cmt>フィードバックに基づき翻訳を修正しました。</cmt>
 </sen>
 <sen id="2">

中略

</par>
</art>

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