Bitext alignment /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
[2011]
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ;
lecture #14. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment of bitexts. It describes general concepts and strategies that can be applied to map corresponding parts in parallel documents on various levels of granularity. Bitexts are valuable linguistic resources for many different research fields and practical applications. The most predominant application is machine translation, in particular, statistical machine translation. However, there are various other threads that can be followed which may be supported by the rich linguistic knowledge implicitly stored in parallel resources. Bitexts have been explored in lexicography, word sense disambiguation, terminology extraction, computer-aided language learning and translation studies to name just a few. The book covers the essential tasks that have to be carried out when building parallel corpora starting from the collection of translated documents up to sub-sentential alignments. In particular, it describes various approaches to document alignment, sentence alignment, word alignment and tree structure alignment. It also includes a list of resources and a comprehensive review of the literature on alignment techniques. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (Morgan & Claypool, viewed July 27, 2011). Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-152). |
| ISBN: | 9781608455119 (electronic bk.) 1608455114 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1947-4059 ; |