United Nations 6 Way Parallel Corpora Analysis

May 1st 2022 By: Kinan Mouk

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Goal: Explore the linguistic elements of the six official United Nations' languages: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese.

Data Source: United Nations, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management: UN Parallel Corpora

Summary

This project counts as submission for my term project for LING1340 Data Science for Linguists instructed by Na-Rae Han at the University of Pittsburgh. All data was obtained from the UN website and processed using nltk and SpaCy.

Directory

• final_report.md is my final report write-up.

• DataProcessing.ipynb is the file that contains all new processing of the data post using SpaCy for English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Mandarin processing.

• new_image_files/ folder is where the matplot graphs are saved as .png files from DataProcessing.ipynb

• UN_Data_Analysis.ipynb is the file that contains all processing of the inital data using nltk.

• data_samples/ folder is where the segmented data files from the UN Parallel Corpus website are found.

• image_files/ folder is where the matplot graphs are saved as .png files from UN_Data_Analysis.ipynb

• UNv1.0.pdf is the licensing information downloaded with original data from the UN Parallel Corpus website.

• LICENSE.md contains licensing information from UNv1.0.pdf.

• project_plan.md was my initial project plan.

• progress_report.md contains progress logs throughout the completion of the project.

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