This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying
translational equivalence at the lexical level. Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of …

This chapter gives an overview of parallel corpora, ie corpora containing source texts in a
given language, aligned with their translations in another language. More specifically, it …

This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment of bitexts. It
describes general concepts and strategies that can be applied to map corresponding parts …

This introductory chapter provides a survey of the processing and use of parallel texts, ie,
texts accompanied by their translation. Throughout the chapter, the various authors' …

Parallel texts (bitexts) have properties that distinguish them from other kinds of parallel data.
First, most words translate to only one other word. Second, bitext correspondence is typically …

Parallel corpora are a valuable resource for machine translation, but at present their
availability and utility is limited by genre-and domain-specificity, licensing restrictions, and …

In recent years, there is a phenomenal growth in the amount of online text material available
from the greatest information repository known as the World Wide Web. Various traditional …

Translation studies rely more and more on corpus data to examine specificities of translated
texts, that can be translated from different original languages and compared to original texts …

Research on extraction of word translation from comparable, nonparallel texts has not been
very popular because it produces poor results when compared to those obtained from …

Parallel texts (bitexts) have properties that distinguish them from other kinds of parallel data.
First, most words translate to only one other word. Second, bitext correspondence is noisy …