ParIce

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/16

ParIce is a parallel corpus of Icelandic and English texts, containing 3,589,052 sentence pairs. The texts were aligned on sentence level and word level. The text have also been tagged and lemmatized. The Icelandic text contains 46,727,741 tokens.

The corpus is available in two ways.

Search. The corpus is available for search where the tags (linguistic annotation) can be used to define the search more accurately. The search gives a KWIC index and information about the source of each text example. The search interface is based on Korp developed by Språkbanken in Gothenburg.
Download. The corpus can be downloded in its entirety. The texts are in a special XML format, TEI P5, which is defined by TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). All texts are accompanied by metadata (bibliographic for published works). The texts can be used with a CC BY 4.0 license. All users are registered with their e-mail address when they accept the user license. The texts from OpenSubtitles have to be downloaded separately from http://opus.nlpl.eu/.

When publishing results based on the texts in ParIce please refer to: Barkarson, Starkaður, and Steinþór Steingrímsson. 2019. Compiling and Filtering ParIce: An English-Icelandic Parallel Corpus. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 140-145. Turku, Finland.

About ParIce

Texts

The texts in ParIce are collected from eleven different sources, mostly from available parallel corpora (Opus, Tilde, ELRC) or retrieved from websites.

Text	Pairs	Description	Origin
The Bible	65,241	Icelandic text of Biblía 21. aldar (2007) and English text of King James Version.	English text: http://christos-c.com Icelandic text: http://biblian.is
EEA documents	1,701,172	Regulations and other documents of EEA	PDF-files from http://eur-lex.europa.eu
Patient information leaflets (EMA)	404,333	Package leaflets (EMA)	Tilde (https://tilde-model.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Tilde_MODEL_Corpus.html)
European Southern Observatory (ESO)	12,633	Press releases from European Southen Obeservatory.	http://www.eso.org/public/
Statistics Iceland - from website	2,288	Texts from the website of Statistics Iceland	ELRC (http://www.lr-coordination.eu/resources)
Icelandic Sagas	17,597	Texts of twelve Sagas: Brennunjáls saga, Eiríks saga rauða, Eyrbyggjasaga, Grettis saga, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hænsna-Þóris saga, Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings, Heiðarvíga saga, Hrafnkels saga freysgoða, Laxdæla saga, Þórðar saga hreðu, Víga-Glúms saga	Icelandic texts: Publications of Svart á hvítu from 1985-1986 (http://clarin.is/en/resources/sagacorpus/) English texts: Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org)
KDE4	49,909	Texts from the localization files of KDE	Opus (http://opus.nlpl.eu/KDE4.php)
Classical litterature	12,416	Texts of four books from the 19^th century: Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, Rupert Hentzau by Anthony Hope, Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope	Icelandic texts: http://rafbokavefur.is English texts: Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org)
OpenSubtitles	1,304,628	Collections of subtitles of films and tv series from 1931 to 2016.	Opus (http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php)
Tatoeba	8,263	Collections of sentences from Tatoeba	Tatoeba (http://tatoeba.org)
Ubuntu	10,572	Texts from Ubuntu translation files	Opus (http://opus.nlpl.eu/Ubuntu.php)
Total	3,589,052

Alignment, filtering, tagging and lemmatization

Information about the processing of the texts, i.e. alignment, filtering, tagging and lemmatization, can be found in an article by Starkaður Barkarson and Steinþór Steingrímsson (2019).

Project manager:

Steinþór Steingrímsson

Software development

Rose Costa
Starkaður Barkarson

Contact:

E-mail: malfong@malfong.is

CLARIN ERIC

CLARIN ERIC is an ESFRI initiative, one of EU's ERICs – CLARIN stands for “Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure” and ERIC stands for “European Research Infrastructure Consortium”. CLARIN ERIC operates according to statutes that have been approved by the European Commission.

The main goal of CLARIN ERIC is that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and for use within language technology.

CLARIN-IS

Iceland joined CLARIN ERIC on February 1st, 2020, after having been an observer since November 2018. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture assigned The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies the role of leading partner in the Icelandic National Consortium and appointed Professor Emeritus Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson as National Coordinator. Starkaður Barkarson replaced Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson in October 2021. Most of the relevant institutions participate in the CLARIN-IS National Consortium.

During the first years, The Árni Magnússon Institute ran a Metadata Providing Centre (CLARIN C-Centre) but was upgraded in 2023 to a Service Providing Centre (CLARIN B-Centre) which provides both service and access to resources and knowledge.

CLARIN á Íslandi