Comparable Corpora: Opportunities for New Research Directions
Kenneth Church
TL;DR
This paper encourages the NLP community to explore new research directions using comparable corpora, emphasizing opportunities beyond traditional results and fostering broader contributions.
Contribution
It reviews the history of comparable corpora and proposes innovative future research directions to expand their use in NLP.
Findings
Highlights opportunities for novel research with comparable corpora
Challenges community to think broadly about applications
Suggests new directions for leveraging comparable corpora
Abstract
Most conference papers present new results, but this paper will focus more on opportunities for the audience to make their own contributions. This paper is intended to challenge the community to think more broadly about what we can do with comparable corpora. We will start with a review of the history, and then suggest new directions for future research. This was a keynote at BUCC-2025, a workshop associated with Coling-2025.
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Taxonomy
TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · linguistics and terminology studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
MethodsFocus