Patrick Tschorn Automatically alig ning English-German p arallel texts at sentence level using li nguistic knowledge PICS Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science Volume 2-2004
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distance measure
aligned parallel text post editor
result and postprocessing
plain German parallel text half
English parallel text half (original format)
plain English paralleltext half
German bitext half sentence per sentence,
lemmatized, tagged
lemmatized, tagged
segmentation marks after headlines)
(parsing, splitting dictionary into
further specialised DEPs
rejoin tagged, lemmatized halves, set up dictionary object in
memory
German dictionary half
English dictionary half
alignment and distance
decomposition of German compounds
find "synonyms" (PMS)
find transformations from N, ADJ, V, ADV to N, ADJ, V, ADV
e.g.: Lösung -> solve (Stem)
cognate matching (trigramme, lcsr)
