Multilingual text alignment

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2535-4_3
Author	Search for: Simard, Michel¹
Name affiliation	National Research Council Canada
Format	Text
Type	Book chapter
Book title	Parallel Text Processing
Series title	Text, Speech and Language Technology; no. 13
ISSN	1386-291X
ISBN	978-90-481-5555-2 978-94-017-2535-4
Pages	49–67
Subject	sentence alignment; word alignment; sentence alignment techniques; multilingual texts; multilingual alignment; English; French; Spanish
Abstract	This chapter addresses a number of questions regarding multilingual texts, where multilingual texts is taken as meaning texts represented in more than two languages. In particular, it raises the question of whether there is any real use for mapping out multilingual translation equivalence. The view that is proposed is that multiple versions of a text can (and should) be seen as additional sources of information that can effectively be exploited to produce better bilingual alignments. A general multilingual alignment technique is presented, whose computational complexity, for a given number of texts, is the same as that of bilingual alignment. Experimental results show how this method. improves the accuracy of bilingual alignments on a trilingual corpus (The Gospel According to John, in English, French and Spanish).
Publication date	2000
Publisher	Springer
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Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NPARC number	23001651
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