More typical case where one English sentence aligns withĮxactly one French sentence. No smaller alignments are possibleīecause the clause ``.sales.were higher.'' in theįirst English sentence corresponds to (part of) the secondįrench sentence. Particularly hard case where two English sentences align to The first twoĮnglish sentences illustrate a ``Most English sentences match exactly oneįrench sentence, but it is possible for an English sentence Program for aligning sentences in bilingualĬorpora, Computational Linguistics 19 (1993):ħ5-102, from which the example in the text is taken. Such as the Canadian Hansard, in which each sentence is given in bothĬoncerning this problem, Gale and Church write: Translation pairs of sentences drawn from a corpus One very important application area for the alignment of parallel Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3) Part 4: Additional Tag Sets 14: Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment 14.4: Correspondence and Alignment 14.4.2: Alignment of Parallel Texts

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