Line ‘Em Up: Advances in Alignment Technology and their Impact on Translation Support Tools

Authors:
Machine Translation staff
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
Machine Translation
Year:
1998

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Abstract

We present a quantitative evaluation of one well-knownword-alignment algorithm, as well as an analysis of frequent errors interms of this model‘s underlying assumptions. Despite error rates thatrange from 22% to 32%, we argue that this technology can beput to good use in certain automated aids for human translators. We supportour contention by pointing to several successful applications and outlineways in which text alignments below the sentence level would allow us toimprove the performance of other translation support tools.