Corpora: Relatve text length

[Jean Veronis]

French is slightly longer that English. Ratio in words varies from 1.08 to 
1.16, measured on 6 different text types.

See details in:

Véronis, J. & Langlais, Ph. (2000). Evaluation of parallel text alignment 
systems: the ARCADE project. In J. Véronis (Ed.), Parallel text processing: 
Alignment and use of translation corpora (pp. 369-388). Dordrecht: Kluwer 
Academic Publishers.

[Table 1, p. 374]


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