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Parallel Text Processing

Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora

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Editors:
  1. Jean Véronis

    1. Université de Provence and CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France

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Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 13)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. From the Rosetta stone to the information society

      • Jean Véronis
      Pages 1-24

  3. Alignment Methodology

    1. Pattern recognition for mapping bitext correspondence

      • I. Dan Melamed
      Pages 25-47

    2. Multilingual text alignment

      • Michel Simard
      Pages 49-67

    3. A comprehensive bilingual word alignment system

      • Yaacov Choueka, Ehud S. Conley, Ido Dagan
      Pages 69-96

    4. A knowledge-lite approach to word alignment

      • Lars Ahrenberg, Mikael Andersson, Magnus Merkel
      Pages 97-116

    5. From sentences to words and clauses

      • Stelios Piperidis, Harris Papageorgiou, Sotiris Boutsis
      Pages 117-138

    6. Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

      • Dekai Wu
      Pages 139-167

    7. The translation network

      • Diana Santos
      Pages 169-186

    8. Parallel text alignment using crosslingual information retrieval techniques

      • Christian Fluhr, Frédérique Bisson, Faïza Elkateb
      Pages 187-200

    9. Parallel alignment of structured documents

      • Laurent Romary, Patrice Bonhomme
      Pages 201-217

  4. Applications

    1. A statistical view on bilingual lexicon extraction

      • Pascale Fung
      Pages 219-236

    2. Terminology extraction from parallel technical texts

      • Ingeborg Blank
      Pages 237-252

    3. Term alignment in use

      • Éric Gaussier, David Hull, Salah Aït-Mokhtar
      Pages 253-274

    4. Automatic dictionary extraction for cross-language information retrieval

      • Ralf D. Brown, Jaime G. Carbonell, Yiming Yang
      Pages 275-298

    5. Parallel texts in computer-assisted language learning

      • John Nerbonne
      Pages 299-311

  5. Resources and Evaluation

    1. Japanese-English aligned bilingual corpora

      • Hitoshi Isahara, Masahiko Haruno
      Pages 313-334

    2. Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi

      • Sukhdave Singh, Tony McEnery, Paul Baker
      Pages 335-346

    3. Sharing of translation memory databases derived from aligned parallel text

      • Alan K. Melby
      Pages 347-368

    4. Evaluation of parallel text alignment systems

      • Jean Véronis, Philippe Langlais
      Pages 369-388
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About this book

l This book evolved from the ARCADE evaluation exercise that started in 1995. The project's goal is to evaluate alignment systems for parallel texts, i. e. , texts accompanied by their translation. Thirteen teams from various places around the world have participated so far and for the first time, some ten to fifteen years after the first alignment techniques were designed, the community has been able to get a clear picture of the behaviour of alignment systems. Several chapters in this book describe the details of competing systems, and the last chapter is devoted to the description of the evaluation protocol and results. The remaining chapters were especially commissioned from researchers who have been major figures in the field in recent years, in an attempt to address a wide range of topics that describe the state of the art in parallel text processing and use. As I recalled in the introduction, the Rosetta stone won eternal fame as the prototype of parallel texts, but such texts are probably almost as old as the invention of writing. Nowadays, parallel texts are electronic, and they are be­ coming an increasingly important resource for building the natural language processing tools needed in the "multilingual information society" that is cur­ rently emerging at an incredible speed. Applications are numerous, and they are expanding every day: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning, etc.

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"Parallel Text Processing succeeds admirably at its goals and will be of use to a wide range of people…I can easily imagine using this book both to introduce ideas in a graduate seminar and as a reference for research…All readers will be grateful that the editor chose to include separate and fairly thorough indexes for terms, authors, and languages and writing systems." (Philip Resnik, Computational Linguistics, 27:04)

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  • Université de Provence and CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Jean Véronis

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