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Construction and Application of a Small English and Chinese Parallel Corpus

XI E Jia-cheng
(Co llege of F oreign Studies, Yang tze U niv ersity , Jingzhou , Hubei Prov ., 434100 , China)
Abstract:A small English and Chinese parallel co rpus is very useful for languag e teaching and learning , cross-language studies
and translation .T he present author has built up a corpus of six million words.T his paper is intended to introduce some of the
techniques in its co nstruction and demonstrate the uses to w hich it could be put to .
Key words:English and Chinese parallel corpus;alig nment ;tagging ;application

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