Proceedings of the National Assembly for Wales

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This is a bilingual sentence aligned corpus of around 
510,000 sentences in Welsh and English taken from the 
proceedings of the National Assembly for Wales.

The corpus was assembled by Dafydd Jones and Andreas 
Eisele for use in their experiments on Welsh-English 
statistical machine translation.

The corpus consists of selected sentences only from 
the Record of Proceedings, and is intended for 
linguistic analysis. It should not be taken as an 
accurate account of the activity of the National 
Assembly for Wales.

The copyright terms and conditions may be found in the 
enclosed COPYRIGHT file. A copy of the correspondence
regarding the determination of rights to distribution 
may be found in the file CORRESPONDENCE. If you use this
corpus in your work, please cite the following paper:

 Jones, D. and Eisele, A. (2006) "Phrase-based statistical 
   machine translation between English and Welsh". LREC-2006: 
   Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and 
   Evaluation. 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority 
   Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation 
   for minority languages”, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006; pp.75-77. 

Statistics:

  510792 cy-clean.txt
  510792 en-clean.txt

Bugs:

  Currently the text is in UTF-8, but was converted
  from ISO-8859-1. Some of the characters in the Welsh
  alphabet, such as ŵ and ŷ are not used. These are
  hoped to be fixed and included, but we need _your_
  help.

Version history:

* 1.0.1   Minor spelling and orthographic changes, removal
          of blank lines.
* 1.0.0   The raw corpus as used by Jones and Eisele (2006)

Comments:

  Please send all comments and suggestions to Francis 
  Tyers.