Comparable Corpora: Opportunities for New Research Directions
It identifies opportunities for future research in natural language processing, but is incremental as it focuses on directions rather than presenting new results.
This paper reviews the history of comparable corpora and suggests new research directions, aiming to challenge the community to think more broadly about their potential applications.
Most conference papers present new results, but this paper will focus more on opportunities for the audience to make their own contributions. This paper is intended to challenge the community to think more broadly about what we can do with comparable corpora. We will start with a review of the history, and then suggest new directions for future research. This was a keynote at BUCC-2025, a workshop associated with Coling-2025.