Linguistically-based sub-sentential alignment for terminology extraction from a bilingual automotive corpus
Lieve Macken, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste · 2008
We present a sub-sentential alignment system that links linguistically motivated phrases in parallel texts based on lexical correspondences and syntactic similarity. We compare the performance of our sub-sentential alignment system with different symmetrization heuristics that combine the GIZA++ alignments of both translation directions. We demonstrate that the aligned linguistically motivated phrases are a useful means to extract bilingual terminology and more specifically complex multiword terms.