2003 Presentations (Communicative Events)
Sentence alignment for monolingual comparable corpora
We address the problem of sentence alignment for monolingual corpora, a phenomenon distinct from alignment in parallel corpora. Aligning large comparable corpora automatically would provide a valuable resource for learning of text-to-text rewriting rules. We incorporate context into the search for an optimal alignment in two complementary ways: learning rules for matching paragraphs using topic structure and further refining the matching through local alignment to find good sentence pairs. Evaluation shows that our alignment method outperforms state-of-the-art systems developed for the same task.
Subjects
Files
- barzilay_elhadad_03.pdf application/pdf 91.4 KB Download File
Also Published In
More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Computer Science
- Publisher
- EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
- Published Here
- May 10, 2013