A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:330330, abstract = {This paper will describe a method and a program (align) for aligning sentences based on a simple statistical model of character lengths. The program uses the fact that longer sentences in one language tend to be translated into longer sentences in the other language, and that shorter sentences tend to be translated into shorter sentences. A probabilistic score is assigned to each proposed correspondence of sen tences, based on the scaled difference of lengths of the two sentences (in...}, author = {Gale, William A. and Church, Kenneth W.}, booktitle = {Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, citeulike-article-id = {330330}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gale91program.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/gale91program.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/gale91program.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/gale91program.html}, keywords = {alignment, corpus, nlp}, pages = {177--184}, posted-at = {2005-09-23 02:15:15}, priority = {0}, title = {A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gale91program.html}, year = {1991} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:330330 L3 - citeulike-article-id:330330 N2 - This paper will describe a method and a program (align) for aligning sentences based on a simple statistical model of character lengths. The program uses the fact that longer sentences in one language tend to be translated into longer sentences in the other language, and that shorter sentences tend to be translated into shorter sentences. A probabilistic score is assigned to each proposed correspondence of sen tences, based on the scaled difference of lengths of the two sentences (in... EP - 184 TI - A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora T2 - Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics SP - 177 KW - alignment KW - corpus KW - nlp AU - Gale, William AU - Church, Kenneth PY - 1991/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gale91program.html ER -