Parallel Text Alignment

  • Authors:
  • Charles B. Owen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '98 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Parallel Text Alignment (PTA) is the problem of automatically aligning content in multiple text documents originating or derived from the same source. The implications of this result in improving multimedia data access in digital library applications range from facilitating the analysis of multiple English language translations of classical texts to enabling the on-demand and random comparison of multiple transcriptions derived from a given audio stream, or associated with a given stream of video, audio, or images. In this paper we give an efficient algorithm for achieving such an alignment, and demonstrate its use with two applications. This result is an application of the new framework of Cross-Modal Information Retrieval recently developed at Dartmouth.