Manual Annotation of Translational Equivalence: The Blinker Project
<|reference_start|>Manual Annotation of Translational Equivalence: The Blinker Project: Bilingual annotators were paid to link roughly sixteen thousand corresponding words between on-line versions of the Bible in modern French and modern English. These annotations are freely available to the research community from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~melamed . The annotations can be used for several purposes. First, they can be used as a standard data set for developing and testing translation lexicons and statistical translation models. Second, researchers in lexical semantics will be able to mine the annotations for insights about cross-linguistic lexicalization patterns. Third, the annotations can be used in research into certain recently proposed methods for monolingual word-sense disambiguation. This paper describes the annotated texts, the specially-designed annotation tool, and the strategies employed to increase the consistency of the annotations. The annotation process was repeated five times by different annotators. Inter-annotator agreement rates indicate that the annotations are reasonably reliable and that the method is easy to replicate.<|reference_end|>
@article{melamed1998manual,
    title={Manual Annotation of Translational Equivalence: The Blinker Project},
    author={I. Dan Melamed (University of Pennsylvania)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9805005},
    year={1998},
    number={IRCS TR #98-07},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9805005},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}