See this paper (which I believe is current state of the art for direct alignment of phrases) and references therein: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D08/D08-1033.pdf
This strand of research goes back at least as far as this paper: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W02/W02-1018.pdf On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> wrote: > Then I wonder how can aligning be done automatically for phrases? And > what's the accuracy of such process? > > > Catalin Braescu > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Miles Osborne <mi...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> well, alignment is a task that is really done en mass and not >> sentence-by-sentence. apart from say teaching, there isn't really a >> need for a GUI to do it. >> >> (convince me that you are ready to use this to align 8 million >> sentence pairs and i'd be impressed) >> >> Miles >> >> 2009/10/27 Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com>: >>> Big thanks for the links! >>> >>> But I have to say I cannot believe my eyes... most of these programs >>> are jar files launcged with parameters from the command line... and >>> the way they work could be a textbook for user unfriendliness :-( >>> >>> How can people stand such primitive and bizarre apps? I am not bashing >>> their authors, I am only surprised there weren't any authors of better >>> programs... >>> >>> >>> Catalin Braescu >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Adam Lopez <alo...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> There are several of these around. Note that I have not used any of them. >>>> >>>> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/HandAlign/ >>>> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~nmadnani/alignment/forclip.htm >>>> http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/parallel.html >>>> http://www.let.rug.nl/~tiedeman/Uplug/ >>>> >>>> Ulrich Germann also demonstrated such an editor at last year's ACL, >>>> although it does not seem to be online; perhaps email him. >>>> >>>> Adam >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Ok, so what I'm looking for is a non-CLI alignment editor. Any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Catalin Braescu >>>>> Omlulu.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> I am asking in advance for your forgiveness if my question is trivial >>>>>> (or, rather, the answer). >>>>>> >>>>>> I am looking for a non-CLI tool that a not-very-technical person can >>>>>> use to align 2 documents in different languages. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I'm saying "non--CLI" I mean anything that has a window and a >>>>>> "visual" way of handling things: anything between a dual pane Notepad, >>>>>> a php-backed web form, a Java Applet, whatever. as in, not a command >>>>>> line "thing" - our newly hired PC operators won't be able to handle >>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Catalin Braescu >>>>>> Omlulu.com >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Moses-support mailing list >>>>> Moses-support@mit.edu >>>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moses-support mailing list >>> Moses-support@mit.edu >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
