Using Alignment for Multilingual Text Compression

Multilingual text compression exploits the existence of the same text in several languages to compress the second and subsequent copies by reference to the first. We explore the details of this framework and present experimental results for parallel English and French texts.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: IJFCS
• Authors: Ehud S. Conley, Shmuel T. Klein
• Keywords: French Texts, IJFCS 2008, Multilingual Text Compression, Subsequent Copies