Aligned English-Spanish corpus of literary texts (sentence level, 12 large novels)
The corpus is aligned at sentence level using Vanilla aligner. Corpora with paragraph level alignment and alignment using genetic algorithm coming very soon.
Download corpus (sentence level alignment, Vanilla aligner).
Papers for citing:
1. Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, José Ángel Vera-Félix. A Bilingual Corpus of Novels Aligned at Paragraph Level. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, N 4139, ISSN 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp 16-23.
2. Grigori Sidorov, Juan-Pablo Posadas-Durán, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Liliana Chanona-Hernández. A New Combined Lexical and Statistical based Sentence Level Alignment Algorithm for Parallel Texts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND APPLICATIONS (ISSN 0976-0962), Vol 2 (1-2), 2011, pp. 257-263.
Text from the corpus (the majority from the Gutenberg project):
|
Author |
English title |
Paragraphs |
Spanish title |
Paragraphs |
|
Alice’s adventures in wonderland |
905 |
Alicia en el país de las maravillas |
1,148 |
|
|
Carroll, Lewis |
Through the looking-glass |
1,190 |
Alicia a través del espejo |
1,230 |
|
Conan Doyle, Arthur |
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
2,260 |
Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes |
2,550 |
|
James, Henry |
The turn of the screw |
820 |
Otra vuelta de tuerca |
1,141 |
|
Kipling, Rudyard |
The jungle book |
1,219 |
El libro de la selva |
1,428 |
|
Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
787 |
Frankenstein |
835 |
|
Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
2,276 |
Drácula |
2,430 |
|
Ubídia, Abdón |
Advances in genetics2 |
116 |
De la genética y sus logros |
109 |
|
Verne, Jules |
Five weeks in a balloon |
2,068 |
Cinco semanas en globo |
2,860 |
|
Verne, Jules |
From the earth to the moon |
894 |
De la tierra a la luna |
1,235 |
|
Verne, Jules |
Michael Strogoff |
2464 |
Miguel Strogoff |
3,059 |
|
Verne, Jules |
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea3 |
3,702 |
Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino |
3,515 |
2 This is a fiction text, not a scientific text.
3 There are two English translations of this novel available.