The OPUS Resource Repository: An Open Package for Creating Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation Services

Mikko Aulamo, Jörg Tiedemann


Abstract
This paper presents a flexible and powerful system for creating parallel corpora and for running neural machine translation services. Our package provides a scalable data repository backend that offers transparent data pre-processing pipelines and automatic alignment procedures that facilitate the compilation of extensive parallel data sets from a variety of sources. Moreover, we develop a web-based interface that constitutes an intuitive frontend for end-users of the platform. The whole system can easily be distributed over virtual machines and implements a sophisticated permission system with secure connections and a flexible database for storing arbitrary metadata. Furthermore, we also provide an interface for neural machine translation that can run as a service on virtual machines, which also incorporates a connection to the data repository software.
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W19-6146
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Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
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September–October
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2019
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Turku, Finland
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Mareike Hartmann, Barbara Plank
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NoDaLiDa
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Linköping University Electronic Press
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389–394
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Mikko Aulamo and Jörg Tiedemann. 2019. The OPUS Resource Repository: An Open Package for Creating Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation Services. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 389–394, Turku, Finland. Linköping University Electronic Press.
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