Two tools for creating and visualizing sub-sentential alignments of parallel text

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Germann

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • LAW '07 Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2007
  • Yawat: yet another word alignment tool

    HLT-Demonstrations '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Demo Session

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Abstract

We present two web-based, interactive tools for creating and visualizing sub-sentential alignments of parallel text. Yawat is a tool to support distributed, manual word- and phrase-alignment of parallel text through an intuitive, web-based interface. Kwipc is an interface for displaying words or bilingual word pairs in parallel, word-aligned context. A key element of the tools presented here is the interactive visualization: alignment information is shown only for one pair of aligned words or phrases at a time. This allows users to explore the alignment space interactively without being overwhelmed by the amount of information available.