Livre: Tiedemann, Bitext Alignment

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:12 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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NEW BOOK

Bitext Alignment
Jörg Tiedemann
2011
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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.

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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