BACCS:Graphical Sentence-Level Aligned Corpora Construction Environment

Abstract

This paper describes a sentence alignment environment, BACCS (Bilingual Aligned Corpus Construction System). BACCS incorporates our robust alignment system which is powerful and effective for translations between Japanese and English. Moreover, BACCS offers a graphical user interface that enables a corpus-builder to easily confirm and modify alignment results through our novel alignment system. This interface also offers the function of easily extending the system dictionary. Experimental results confirm that users can align bilingual corpus by sentence-level with BACCS about twice faster than without it.