Research on bilingual dictionary based sentence alignment for Chinese English parallel corpus

摘要

Parallel corpus is of great importance to machine translation, and automatic sentence alignment is the first step towards its processing. This paper puts forward a bilingual dictionary based sentence alignment method for Chinese English parallel corpus, which differs from previous length based algorithm in its knowledge-rich approach. Experimental result shows that this method produces over 93 accuracy with usual English-Chinese dictionaries whose translations cover 31.88-47.90 of the corpus.