Re: [Wikisource-l] Parallel text alignment

On August 9, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lars Aronsson<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and
>> extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools,
>> TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be marked
>> up already. Are these the best and most modern tools available?
>
> there is a Mediawiki extension which is supposed to provide this:
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:DoubleWiki_Extension
>
> It is enabled on all wikisource subdomains.
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Crito?match=el

This is a wonderful feature I didn't know about until now.
But it was not what I'm looking for. In computational
linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), a "text
aligner" is a piece of software that identifies which words
and phrases correspond to which in a translation. The
input is a translated text and the output is a dictionary.
It's like a more advanced "diff" tool.


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