A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner
Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter E. Clark · 2013
Fast alignment is essential for many natural language tasks. But in the setting of monolingual alignment, previous work has not been able to align more than one sentence pair per second. We describe a discriminatively trained monolingual word aligner that uses a Conditional Random Field to globally decode the best alignment with features drawn from source and target sentences. Using just part-of-speech tags and WordNet as external resources, our aligner gives state-of-the-art result, while being an order-of-magnitude faster than the previous best performing system. 1