BUCC 2017 - 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

Given that LREC takes place for the first time in Asia, this year’s special theme is Comparable Corpora for Asian Languages. But we solicit contributions also on all other topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following:
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:
Cross-language distributional semantics
Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, etc., from comparable corpora