Automatic Chinese English Paragraph Segmentation and Alignment
Bin Wang · 2000
The research on bilingual corpora is one of the most important topics in the field of natural language processing. Paragraph alignment is to find the translation paragraph pairs between source text and target text. Paragraph alignment is a necessary and important phase between section alignment and sentence alignment, but it is disregarded at present. This paper aims at dealing with this process. Because it is difficult and unnecessary to align paragraphs directly, this problem is changed into a “segmentation and alignment” one. This paper finds some anchors for segmentation first, and then matches the sentences which contain these anchors, finally checks the validity of the results and segments the texts into translation blocks. The experimental results show that the method can achieve good results and can also be applied to other language pairs.