Editing Corpus linguistics (section)

=== Multilingual corpora ===

In the 1990s, many of the notable early successes on statistical methods in natural-language programming (NLP) occurred in the field of [[machine translation]], due especially to work at IBM Research.  These systems were able to take advantage of existing multilingual [[text corpus|textual corpora]] that had been produced by the [[Parliament of Canada]] and the [[European Union]] as a result of laws calling for the translation of all governmental proceedings into all official languages of the corresponding systems of government.

There are corpora in non-European languages as well. For example, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Japan has built a number of corpora of spoken and written Japanese. [[Sign language]] corpora have also been created using video data.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources at B.U. |url=https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=www.bu.edu}}</ref>