Using Punctuations and Lengths for Bilingual Sub-sentential Alignment

Using Punctuations and Lengths for Bilingual Sub-sentential Alignment

We present a new approach to aligning bilingual English and Chinese text at sub-sentential level by interleaving alphabetic texts and punctuations matches. With sub-sentential alignment, we expect to improve the effectiveness of alignment at word, chunk and phrase levels and provide finer grained and more reusable translation memory.