Carla Parra Escartín was appointed as ESR at the University of Bergen from May 1, 2011 for three years.

Research

This PhD research project consists in exploring new ways to improve multiword n-1 alignments between Spanish and German/Norwegian. Concretely, she focuses on those nominal compounds in German and Norwegian that have as translation equivalents in Spanish phraseological units.

In order to carry out her research project she is currently compiling a large parallel corpus from the European database of Technical Regulations Information System. Concretely, she has paired documents written in Austria, Germany and Spain and their translations into Spanish and German respectively. The database consists of 995 file pairs corresponding to 13 different domains. The files are currently being aligned at sentence level (up to now 97 files have been completely aligned, which account for approximately 686,649 words).

A first version of this corpus was publicly released within the MetaNord Project on 30 November 2011: “Tris Spanish-German Parallel Corpus”  (Metadata XML and Description of the Resource). The following versions of the corpus will be released through MetaNord in the upcoming months and will then be used to carry out experiments in subsentential word alignment.

Publications

1. Parra, Carla. 2012. Historia de la traducción automática. La linterna del Traductor, nueva  ́epoca (6).
2. Parra, Carla. 2012 (submitted). Design and compilation of a specialized parallel corpus Spanish–German. In Nicoletta Calzolari (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), Paris: ELRA.

Courses and seminars

1. CLARA researcher training course on Multilingual Lexical Resources and Tools held in Bergen on 20–23 June 2011. [Presentation of her research project]
2. GF Summer School 2011 held in Barcelona on 15-26 August 2011.
3. CLARA Career Course on Product Planning for Next Generation Information Access Technology Solutions held in Dubrovnik on 20-23 September 2011.
4. Introduction to Statistics course organized by the Forskerskole-HF at the University of Bergen on 24-28 October 2011.

My homepage at UiB

To learn more about her background and previous experience see also Carla’s website at UiB.