Improved Unsupervised Sentence Alignment for Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Parallel Corpora

We address the problem of unsupervised and language-pair independent alignment of symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora. Asymmetrical parallel corpora contain a large proportion of 1-to-0/0-to-1 and 1-to-many/many-to-1 sentence correspondences. We have developed a novel approach which is fast and allows us to achieve high accuracy in terms of F1 for the alignment of both asymmetrical and symmetrical parallel corpora. The source code of our aligner and the test sets are freely available.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser
• Keywords: Asymmetrical Parallel Corpora, COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Language-pair Independent Alignment, Sentence Correspondences