Bayesian Word Alignment for Massively Parallel Texts
Robert Östling · 2014
There has been a great amount of work done in the field of bitext alignment, but the problem of aligning words in massively parallel texts with hundreds or thousands of languages is largely unexplored. While the basic task is similar, there are also important differences in purpose, method and evaluation between the problems. In this work, I present a non-parametric Bayesian model that can be used for simultaneous word alignment in massively parallel corpora. This method is evaluated on a corpus containing 1144 translations of the New Testament.