ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Europarl corpus

The Europarl corpus is like a big collection of written stories, just like the ones your parents might read to you before bedtime. But instead of being made up stories, these are real stories written by people who work for the European Parliament.

The Parliament is the group of people who make laws and decisions for many countries in Europe. Sometimes they need to talk to each other in different languages, because not everyone speaks the same language. This can be tricky!

That's where the Europarl corpus comes in. It has lots of different stories that have been translated into many different languages, so people who speak different languages can read the same story and understand what it means.

Think of it like having lots of different versions of the same bedtime story, so that if your friend speaks a different language than you do, they can still hear the same story and understand it.

The Europarl corpus helps people from all over Europe communicate and work together, even if they don't speak the same language.