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Bitext alignment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tiedemann, Jörg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, [2011]
Series:Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ; lecture #14.
Subjects:
Machine translating.
Computational linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting.
Alignment
Bitexts
Parallel corpora
Sentence alignment
Word alignment
Tree alignment
Statistical machine translation
Transduction grammars
Text mining
Lexicon induction
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Applications
  • Further readings
  • 2. Basic concepts and terminology
  • Bitext and alignment
  • Alignment and segmentation
  • Alignment spaces and constraints
  • Correlations and cues
  • Alignment models and search algorithms
  • Evaluation of bitext alignment
  • Summary and further reading
  • 3. Building parallel corpora
  • Document alignment
  • Mining the web
  • Extracting parallel data from comparable corpora
  • Summary and further reading
  • 4. Sentence alignment
  • Length-based approaches
  • Lexical matching approaches
  • Combined and resource-specific techniques
  • Summary and further reading
  • 5. Word alignment
  • Generative alignment models
  • Constraints and heuristics
  • Discriminative alignment models
  • Translation spotting and bilingual lexicon induction
  • Summary and further reading
  • 6. Phrase and tree alignment
  • Parallel treebanks and tree alignment
  • Hierarchical alignment and transduction grammars
  • Summary and further reading
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Final recommendations
  • A. Resources & tools
  • Bibliography
  • Author's biography.