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An Algorithm for finding Noun Phrase Correspondences in Bilingual Corpora

by: Julian Kupiec
In Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1993), pp. 17-22.

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The paper describes an algorithm that employs English and French text taggers to associate noun phrases in an aligned bilingual corpus. The taggers provide part-of-speech categories which are used by finite-state recognizers to extract simple noun phrases for both languages. Noun phrases are then mapped to each other using an iterative re-estimation algorithm that bears similarities to the Baum-Welch algorithm which is used for training the taggers. The algorithm provides an alternative to...

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