Papers with bilingual sentence alignment method
Vecalign: Improved Sentence Alignment in Linear Time and Space (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Sentence-aligned bitext is used to train nearly all machine translation systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual sentence alignment method which is linear in time and space with respect to the number of sentences being aligned. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the existing method by 5 F1 points on a German–French test set and improves downstream MT quality by 1.7 and 1.6 BLEU in Sinhala-English and Nepali-English, respectively. |