Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora (2003)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing |
| Citations: | 24 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Barzilay03sentencealignment,
author = {Regina Barzilay},
title = {Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing},
year = {2003},
pages = {25--32}
}
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Abstract
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-totext 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.
