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Title	Czech-English Word Alignment
Authors	O. Bojar, M. Prokopova
Abstract	We describe an experiment with Czech-English word alignment. Half a thousand sentences were manually annotated by two annotators in parallel and the most frequent reasons for disagreement are described. We evaluate the accuracy of GIZA++ alignment toolkit on the data and identify that lemmatization of the Czech part can reduce alignment error to a half. Furthermore we document that about 38% of tokens difficult for GIZA++ were difficult for humans already.
Keywords	alignment, statistical MT, evaluation, validation of language resources
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Title

Czech-English Word Alignment

Authors

O. Bojar, M. Prokopova

Abstract

We describe an experiment with Czech-English word alignment. Half a thousand sentences were manually annotated by two annotators in parallel and the most frequent reasons for disagreement are described. We evaluate the accuracy of GIZA++ alignment toolkit on the data and identify that lemmatization of the Czech part can reduce alignment error to a half. Furthermore we document that about 38% of tokens difficult for GIZA++ were difficult for humans already.

Keywords

alignment, statistical MT, evaluation, validation of language resources

Full paper

Czech-English Word Alignment