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SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGI...

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. Table of
Contents: Introduction   Basic Concepts and Terminology   Building Parallel Corpora   Sentence
Alignment   Word Alignment   Phrase and Tree Alignment   Concluding Remarks

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