Corpora: alignment programs

[Tomaz Erjavec]

Hi,
there is a vanilla implementation in C at

see http://nl.ijs.si/ME/CD/tool/Vanilla/

>From the README:

Vanilla Aligner, V1.0

AUTHORS:
  Pernilla Danielsson and Daniel Ridings
  Språkbanken
  Institutionen för svenska språket
  Göteborgs universitet
  S-412 98 Göteborg SWEDEN

DOCUMENTATION:
  http://svenska.gu.se/PEDANT/workshop/workshop.html


the above URL has alas gone but a copy is available from
http://nl.ijs.si/telri/cat/Vanilla/ljubljana/

Hope this helps,
Tomaz

Marco Antonio Esteves da Rocha writes:
 >
 > Dear all:
 >
 > I would like to carry out a few tests with an alignment program. I have
 > read the Gale and Church (1993) paper and, as you know, it comes with the
 > code. Before actually transcribing it:
 >
 > 1. Can I get it machine-readable anywhere ?
 > 2. Will it compile and run in my PC on a Mandrake Linux ?
 > 3. Has anyone run tests ?
 > 4. Any other more recent or easier options ?
 > 5. Are there any options that run in Windows (many students resist working
 >    with anything but Windows) ?
 >
 > At the moment, the actual purpose of the request is teaching, as part
 > of a corpus linguistics course. So it is just a demo, but I would like it
 > to be as real-life-like as possible, and it may develop into an actual
 > full-fledged research initiative. Languages involved are English and
 > Portuguese, so far, Spanish should be included soon.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Marco Rocha
 > marcor at cce.ufsc.br
 >
 >