Measuring the impact of cognates in parallel text alignment
Víctor Manuel Darriba Bilbao, Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Tiago Ildefonso · 2005
This paper evaluates the impact of considering cognates for aligning parallel texts using our aligner. By considering that two words may be cognates if their similarity is higher than a certain threshold and if they are automatically selected as aligners, we tested different degrees of cognativeness, by varying threshold values. A new methodology to measure the quality of resulting alignments is presented. Two language pairs are addressed: Portuguese-Spanish, and Portuguese-English