# Bianet: A Parallel News Corpus in Turkish, Kurdish and English

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05095 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.05095/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 14 May 2018.

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- [Resources for Turkish Natural Language Processing: A critical survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05042/) (2022)
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- [Central Kurdish machine translation: First large scale parallel corpus and experiments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09325/) (2021)
- [Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.01319/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a new open-source parallel corpus consisting of news articles collected from the Bianet magazine, an online newspaper that publishes Turkish news, often along with their translations in English and Kurdish. In this paper, we describe the collection process of the corpus and its statistical properties. We validate the benefit of using the Bianet corpus by evaluating bilingual and multilingual neural machine translation models in English-Turkish and English-Kurdish directions.