The ELITR ECA Corpus

TL;DR

The ELITR ECA corpus is a large multilingual dataset derived from European Court of Auditors publications, utilizing automatic translation and alignment to create extensive parallel sentence pairs for multilingual NLP research.

Contribution

This work introduces a new, large-scale multilingual corpus with 264,000 document pairs and 41.9 million sentence pairs, created through automatic translation and alignment methods.

Findings

Created a comprehensive multilingual corpus from European Court of Auditors publications.

Achieved alignment of 41.9 million sentence pairs across 506 translation directions.

Provides a valuable resource for multilingual NLP tasks.

Abstract

We present the ELITR ECA corpus, a multilingual corpus derived from publications of the European Court of Auditors. We use automatic translation together with Bleualign to identify parallel sentence pairs in all 506 translation directions. The result is a corpus comprising 264k document pairs and 41.9M sentence pairs.