WMT2016: A Hybrid Approach to Bilingual Document Alignment
Sainik Kumar Mahata, Dipankar Das, Santanu Pal · 2016
Large aligned corpora are required for any computer aided translation system to become effective.In this scenario, bilingual document alignment has gained utmost importance in recent days.We attempt a simple yet effective approach to align URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) within two documents in two languages as a part of WMT2016 Bilingual Document Alignment Shared Task.Our approach includes the processing of URLs and their embedded texts, which serves as the main matching criterion.In order to align the text initially, we have used Gale-Church algorithm, dictionary based translation and Cosine Similarity that in turn helps us to achieve better results in the alignment task.