Mining a comparable text corpus for a Vietnamese - French statistical machine translation system

International audienceThis paper presents our first attempt at constructing a Vietnamese-French statistical machine translation system. Since Vietnam-ese is an under-resourced language, we concentrate on building a large Vietnamese-French parallel corpus. A document alignment method based on publication date, special words and sentence alignment result is proposed. The paper also presents an application of the obtained parallel corpus to the construction of a Vietnamese-French statistical machine translation system, where the use of different units for Vietnamese (syllables , words, or their combinations) is discussed