Japanese-English News Article Alignment Data (JENAAD)

Sample

One-to-one sentence alignment (shift_jis-dos)
One-to-many sentence alignment (shift_jis-dos)

License

To download JENAAD, you need to fill a copy of the license (one of Japanese Text / English Text) and send it to the following address:

    Masao Utiyama
    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    3-5 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan, 619-0289

and receive a user account and password in return in e-mail that enables you to access JENAAD. Note that the account will be expired in a period.

Download

p11-1989-2001.txt.gz (150000 one-to-one sentence alignments, 23118450 bytes, euc-jp-unix)
p11-1989-2001.zip (150000 one-to-one sentence alignments, 23335741 bytes, shift_jis-dos)
pnm-1989-2001.txt.gz (30000 one-to-many sentence alignments, 7417253 bytes, euc-jp-unix)
pnm-1989-2001.zip (30000 one-to-many sentence alignments, 7468055 bytes, shift_jis-dos)
78 sentence pairs (list) in pnm-1989-2001.* lack Japanese sentences, English sentences or both sentences due to a bug in a sentence selection program.
split.zip (22919410 bytes) has the following files.
- p11-1989-2001-j.txt (150000 Japanese lines, 19751012 bytes, shift_jis-dos)
- p11-1989-2001-e.txt (150000 English lines, 22522594 bytes, ascii-dos)
- pnm-1989-2001-j.txt (29922 Japanese lines, 6458527 bytes, shift_jis-dos)
- pnm-1989-2001-e.txt (29922 English lines, 8137390 bytes, ascii-dos)
The sentences in corresponding lines between p*-1989-2001-j.txt and p*-1989-2001-e.txt are units in p*-1989-2001.txt. The Japanese sentences were segmented by ChaSen version 2.2.9.

Format of sentence alignment data

How to cite this data

The following article should be cited:

Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara. (2003) Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences. ACL-2003, pp. 72--79.

instead of the web page you are now reading.

Last updated: 2005/05/17