Parallel text processing : alignment and use of translation corpora / edited by Jean Véronis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Véronis, Jean.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Text, speech, and language technology ; v. 13.

Text, speech, and language technology ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machine translating.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]

Contents:

1. From the Rosetta stone to the information society: A survey of parallel text processing / Jean Veronis 1

Alignment Methodology

2. Pattern recognition for mapping bitext correspondence / I. Dan Melamed 25

3. Multilingual text alignment: Aligning three or more versions of a text / Michel Simard 49

4. A comprehensive bilingual word alignment system Application to disparate languages: Hebrew and English / Yaacov Choueka, Ehud S. Conley, Ido Dagan 69

5. A knowledge-lite approach to word alignment / Lars Ahrenberg, Mikael Andersson, Magnus Merkel 97

6. From sentences to words and clauses / Stelios Piperidis, Harris Papageorgiou, Sotiris Boutsis 117

7. Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars / Dekai Wu 139

8. The translation network A model for a fine-grained description of translations / Diana Santos 169

9. Parallel text alignment using crosslingual information retrieval techniques / Christian Fluhr, Frederique Bisson, Faiza Elkateb 187

10. Parallel alignment of structured documents / Laurent Romary, Patrice Bonhomme 201

Applications

11. A statistical view on bilingual lexicon extraction From parallel corpora to non-parallel corpora / Pascale Fung 219

12. Terminology extraction from parallel technical texts / Ingeborg Blank 237

13. Term alignment in use Machine-aided human translation / Eric Gaussier, David Hull, Salah Ait-Mokhtar 253

14. Automatic dictionary extraction for cross-language information retrieval / Ralf D. Brown, Jaime G. Carbonell, Yiming Yang 275

15. Parallel texts in computer-assisted language learning / John Nerbonne 299

Resources and Evaluation

16. Japanese-English aligned bilingual corpora / Hitoshi Isahara, Masahiko Haruno 313

17. Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi / Sukhdave Singh, Tony McEnery, Paul Baker 335

18. Sharing of translation memory databases derived from aligned parallel text / Alan K. Melby 347

19. Evaluation of parallel text alignment systems The ARCADE project / Jean Veronis, Philippe Langlais 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0792365461

OCLC:

44650949