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Title Acquis Communautaire Sentence Alignment using Support Vector Machines
Authors A. Ceauşu, D. Ştefănescu, D. Tufiş
Abstract Sentence alignment is a task that requires not only accuracy, as possible errors can affect further processing, but also requires small computation resources and to be language pair independent. Although many implementations do not use translation equivalents because they are dependent on the language pair, this feature is a requirement for the accuracy increase. The paper presents a hybrid sentence aligner that has two alignment iterations. The first iteration is based mostly on sentences length, and the second is based on a translation equivalents table estimated from the results of the first iteration. The aligner uses a Support Vector Machine classifier to discriminate between positive and negative examples of sentence pairs.
Keywords sentence alignment, support vector machines
Full paper Acquis Communautaire Sentence Alignment using Support Vector Machines