# MIZAN: A Large Persian-English Parallel Corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02107 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.02107/

## Key facts

- Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 Jan 2018.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

One of the most major and essential tasks in natural language processing is machine translation that is now highly dependent upon multilingual parallel corpora. Through this paper, we introduce the biggest Persian-English parallel corpus with more than one million sentence pairs collected from masterpieces of literature. We also present acquisition process and statistics of the corpus, and experiment a base-line statistical machine translation system using the corpus.