[Corpora-List] [CORPORA-List] RE: Evaluating Sentence Aligners

[maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu]

Olivier wrote:
> Alinea was evaluated on 'distant' language pairs...
> These results were obtained without fine tuning of parameters, and show
> that surface clues (sentence lengths and even identical chains) can be
> useful, even for non-related languages that don't share the same
> alphabet. Alinea allows improving these results by adding specific
> linguistic data (bilingual lexicon, translitteration) or using a large
> parallel corpus

Are they results fairly insensitive to morphology?  I.e. does it matter
whether you stem one or both sides?

   Mike Maxwell

   CASL/ U MD