BUCC 2015 - 8th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora with Shared Task

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics.
Building Comparable Corpora:
Human translations
Automatic and semi-automatic methods
Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
Rare and minority languages, across language families
Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
Applications of comparable corpora:
Human translations
Language learning
Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
Bilingual projections
Machine translation
Writing assistance
Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora
Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
Cross-language distributional semantics