[Corpora-List] Official release of the United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0

[Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt]

Dear all,
I would like to announce the official release of the United Nations 
Parallel Corpus v1.0. The corpus was created as part of the United 
Nations commitment to multilingualism and as a reaction to the growing 
importance of statistical machine translation (SMT) within the 
Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) 
translation services and the United Nations. It covers 25 years, from 
1990 to 2014, and contains documents in the six official languages of 
the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

The purpose of the corpus is to allow access to multilingual language 
resources and facilitate research and progress in various natural 
language processing tasks, including machine translation. For 
convenience, the corpus has also been pre-packaged as bi-texts for each 
language pair (between 16 and 25 million sentences per language pair).

A subset of the corpus (ca. 11.5 million sentences) is available as a 
six-language fully-parallel corpus, i.e. all sentences have equivalents 
in all six languages. Data from 2015 has been used to create official 
development sets and test sets, also fully aligned across the six 
official UN languages. The paper reports SMT baselines for all languages 
pairs for this corpus.

The corpus can be downloaded from:

http://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus

The corresponding publication has been published at LREC 2015:

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1195_Paper.pdf

While registering, please leave a short description of the work for 
which you plan to use the corpus. In the near future we plan to set up a 
section with references to papers that describe research done with UN 
corpus. Feel free to share links and bibliography items with us (either 
with me or any of the authors of the above paper).

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt