# Icelandic Parallel Abstracts Corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05289 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05289/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 11 Aug 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

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- [Cross-lingual Language Model Pretraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.07291/) (2019)
- [Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10608/) (2020)
- [An Effective Approach to Unsupervised Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.01313/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a new Icelandic-English parallel corpus, the Icelandic Parallel Abstracts Corpus (IPAC), composed of abstracts from student theses and dissertations. The texts were collected from the Skemman repository which keeps records of all theses, dissertations and final projects from students at Icelandic universities. The corpus was aligned based on sentence-level BLEU scores, in both translation directions, from NMT models using Bleualign. The result is a corpus of 64k sentence pairs from over 6 thousand parallel abstracts.