Word Alignment Viewer for Long Sentences
Hideki Kashioka · 2005
An aligned corpus is an important resource for developing machine translation systems. We consider suitable units for constructing the translation model through observing an aligned parallel corpus. We examine the characteristics of the aligned corpus. Long sentences are espe-cially difficult for word alignment because the sentences can become very complicated. Also, each (source/target) word has a higher possibil-ity to correspond to the (target/source) word. This paper introduces an alignment viewer a de-veloper can use to correct alignment informa-tion. We discuss using the viewer on a patent parallel corpus because sentences in patents are often long and complicated. 1