Cross-Level Sentence Alignment [chapter]

Anna Ho, Francisco Oliveira, Fai Wong
2006 Computational Methods in Engineering & Science  
This paper describes a new model for sentence alignment system of structurally different languages such as Chinese and Portuguese. In the proposed method, we try to combine the statistical approach and lexical approach in order to achieve the efficiency and accuracy. We first complete the word level alignment by making use of the Chinese-Portuguese dictionary to get the basic translation rate between the two texts. In order to make the system more adaptive, we apply the maximum entropy model to
more » ... align the named entities without perform the word segmentation for Chinese. Secondly, we apply the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to get the statistical information of the sentences.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-48260-4_158 fatcat:yn7onem5z5arvgiwygbn6sudxy