12th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

MOTIVATION

Research on comparable corpora is active but used to be scattered among many workshops and conferences. Hence this workshop series, which bundles this research and gives it a better platform. In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions.
Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP, for example to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural MT. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

Previous BUCC Workshops

IssueVenue ChairpersonsProceedings
BUCC 2008LREC, Marrakech Pierre Zweigenbaum, Éric Gaussier, Pascale Fung PDF
BUCC 2009ACL, Singapore Pascale Fung, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp ACL Anthology page PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2010LREC, Valetta Reinhard Rapp, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Serge Sharoff PDF
BUCC 2011ACL, Portland Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp, Serge Sharoff ACL Anthology page PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2012LREC, Istanbul Reinhard Rapp, Marko Tadić, Serge Sharoff, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Pierre Zweigenbaum PDF
BUCC 2013ACL, Sofia Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp ACL Anthology page PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2014LREC, Reykjavik Pierre Zweigenbaum, Ahmet Aker, Serge Sharoff, Stephan Vogel, Reinhard Rapp PDF [Individual papers]
BUCC 2015ACL, Beijing Pierre Zweigenbaum, Serge Sharoff, Reinhard Rapp ACL Anthology page PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2016LREC, Portorož Reinhard Rapp, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Serge Sharoff PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2017ACL, Vancouver Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp ACL Anthology page PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]
BUCC 2018LREC, Miyazaki Reinhard Rapp, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Serge Sharoff Proceedings page PDF [Individual papers]
BUCC 2019RANLP, Varna Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp PDF [Individual papers] [BibTeX]