News-Commentary

A parallel corpus of News Commentaries provided by WMT for training SMT. The source is taken from CASMACAT: http://www.casmacat.eu/corpus/news-commentary

12 languages, 63 bitexts
total number of files: 126
total number of tokens: 188.42M
total number of sentence fragments: 7.71M

Please cite the following article if you use any part of the corpus in your own work:
J. Tiedemann, 2012, Parallel Data, Tools and Interfaces in OPUS. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)

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Below you can download data files for all language pairs in different formats and with different kind of annotation (if available). You can click on the various links as explained below. In addition to the files shown on this webpage, OPUS also provides pre-compiled word alignments and phrase tables, bilingual dictionaries, frequency counts, and these files can be found through the resources search form on the top-level website of OPUS.

Bottom-left triangle: download files

ces = sentence alignments in XCES format
leftmost column language IDs = tokenized corpus files in XML
TMX and plain text files (Moses): see "Statistics" below
lower row language IDs = parsed corpus files (if they exist)

Upper-right triangle: sample files

view = bilingual XML file samples
upper row language IDs = monolingual XML file samples
rightmost column language IDs = untokenized corpus files

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ar		view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	ar
cs	ces		view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	cs
de	ces	ces		view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	de
en	ces	ces	ces		view	view	view	view	view	view	view	view	en
es	ces	ces	ces	ces		view	view	view	view	view	view	view	es
fr	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces		view	view	view	view	view	view	fr
it	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces			view	view	view	view	it
ja	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces					view	view	ja
nl	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces			view	view	view	nl
pt	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces		ces		view	view	pt
ru	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces		view	ru
zh	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces	ces		zh
	ar	cs	de	en	es	fr	it	ja	nl	pt	ru	zh

Statistics and TMX/Moses Downloads

Number of files, tokens, and sentences per language (including non-parallel ones if they exist)
Number of sentence alignment units per language pair

Upper-right triangle: download translation memory files (TMX)
Bottom-left triangle: download plain text files (MOSES/GIZA++)
Language ID's, first row: monolingual plain text files (tokenized)
Language ID's, first column: monolingual plain text files (untokenized)


language	files	tokens	sentences	ar	cs	de	en	es	fr	it	ja	nl	pt	ru	zh
ar	11	25.8M	1.0M		0.1M	0.1M	0.2M	0.2M	0.1M	26.1k	0.6k	9.6k	20.8k	0.1M	47.6k
cs	11	18.5M	0.9M	0.1M		0.1M	0.1M	0.1M	0.1M	12.9k	0.6k	6.1k	9.8k	0.1M	29.7k
de	11	25.7M	1.1M	0.1M	0.1M		0.2M	0.2M	0.2M	14.1k	0.6k	0.5k	5.7k	0.2M	44.0k
en	11	29.2M	1.2M	0.2M	0.1M	0.2M		0.2M	0.2M	18.5k	0.6k	1.8k	7.2k	0.2M	50.5k
es	11	29.4M	1.1M	0.2M	0.1M	0.2M	0.2M		0.2M	18.1k	0.6k	3.6k	9.1k	0.2M	41.7k
fr	11	26.1M	1.0M	0.1M	0.1M	0.2M	0.2M	0.2M		13.6k	0.5k	0.5k	6.0k	0.1M	42.7k
it	10	3.5M	0.1M	26.3k	13.1k	14.1k	18.5k	18.2k	13.6k			4.6k	3.5k	9.6k	3.7k
ja	8	98.3k	4.7k	0.6k	0.6k	0.6k	0.6k	0.6k	0.5k					0.6k	0.6k
nl	10	0.9M	33.0k	9.8k	6.2k	0.5k	1.8k	3.7k	0.5k	4.7k			3.3k	0.5k	0.9k
pt	10	2.1M	75.9k	21.2k	10.0k	5.7k	7.2k	9.2k	6.0k	3.6k		3.4k		3.9k	3.1k
ru	11	22.2M	1.0M	0.1M	0.1M	0.2M	0.2M	0.2M	0.1M	9.6k	0.6k	0.5k	3.9k		36.6k
zh	11	4.9M	0.3M	47.8k	29.8k	44.1k	50.7k	41.8k	42.7k	3.8k	0.6k	0.9k	3.2k	36.6k

Note that TMX files only contain unique translation units and, therefore, the number of aligned units is smaller than for the distributions in Moses and XML format. Moses downloads include all non-empty alignment units including duplicates. Token counts for each language also include duplicate sentences and documents.

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