Hi Barry, Thank you for the advice. I also read the paper http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/nli-alignment-emnlp08.pdf
I wonder if using MT techniques would still be ideal. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Barry Haddow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kenston > > You should look at the literature on paraphrasing. > > If you could construct a phrase table of paraphrases (eg using a technique > like this > > http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/publications/paraphrasing-with-bilingual-parallel-corpora.pdf > ) > then you could use the forced translation that Hieu suggested. > > best regards - Barry > > On Monday 04 July 2011 14:04, Kenston Choi wrote: > > Hi Hieu, > > > > An example would be aligning two English texts. > > > > Text 1: China said on Monday it had complained to Tokyo about Japanese > > fishing boats near disputed islands. > > > > Text 2: China complained to Tokyo regarding an event beside the > > controversial lands that involve fishing boats. > > > > The alignments would then be (Text1 to Text2): > > 1. China - China > > 2. complained to Tokyo - complained to Tokyo (can be separated to > > individual but aligned words) > > 3. about - regarding > > 4. fishing boats - fishing boats > > 5. near - beside > > 6. disputed islands - controversial lands > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Hieu Hoang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ** > > > i don't quite understand what you mean by monolingual pb alignment. Can > > > you give an example? > > > > > > > > > > > > On 03/07/2011 10:43, Kenston Choi wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > 1. Can Moses be easily used for monolingual (English) phrase-based > > > alignment? > > > 2. What ideal steps are involved? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Moses-support mailing > > > [email protected]:// > mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-su > > >pport > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- Kenston Choi www.kenstonchoi.com <http://kenstonchoi.com>
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