Twente word alignment software
Go to the
NATools home page
or to
NATools at SourceForge.
You can download the original version (1998) of the twente word alignment
software here:
twente_word_align_09b.tar.gz
Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong and Wessel Kraaij,
``A Domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information
Retrieval'',
In: Proceedings of the RIAO'97 Conference on Computer-Assisted Information
Searching on Internet, pages 255-270, 1997
[abstract]
[postcript]
Djoerd Hiemstra, ``Multilingual domain modeling in Twenty-One:
automatic creation of a bi-directional translation lexicon from a parallel
corpus'', In: Peter-Arno Coppen, Hans van Halteren and Lisanne Teunissen (eds.)
Proceedings of the eightth CLIN meeting, pages 41-58, 1998
[abstract]
[postcript]
Dan Melamed, ``Empirical Methods for MT Lexicon Development'',
in L. Gerber and D. Farwell (eds.), Machine Translation and the Information
Soup, Springer-Verlag, 1998 Eric Gaussier, David Hull and Salah Ait-Mokhtar
``Term Alignment in Use: Machine-Aided Human Translation'',
Xerox Research Centre Technical Report, 1999 Kyo Kageura, Keita Tsuji, and Akiko N. Aizawa
``Automatic Thesaurus Generation through Multiple Filtering'',
The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000),
2000 Dan Tufis, ``A cheap and fast way to build useful translation lexicons'',
The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2002),
2002 Alberto Simões and José João Almeida,
''NATools -- A Statistical Word Aligner Workbench'',
Sociedade Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,
2003 Alberto Simões, ``Parallel corpora word alignment and applications'',
Master's Thesis, Universidade do Minho, 2004
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Current development is taking place at the Computer Science Department of the
University of Minho, Portugal, under the name Natura Alignment Tools (NATools). Many thanks to Alberto Simões and José João Almeida for making their implementations available.
The latest version 0.5.5 is from May 2007: NATools-0.5.5.tar.gz
Contact
Djoerd Hiemstra
University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
E-mail: hiemstra@cs.utwente.nl
Publications
Related publications
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/melamed/papers/amta98.ps.gz
http://kb.rxrc.xerox.com/publis/mltt/gaussier-ptp-99.ps
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/C/C00/C00-1058.pdf
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/coling2002/proceedings/data/area-03/co-005.pdf
http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie/publications/sepln2003.pdf
http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie/publications/msc.pdf
More information
Last modified July 2007 by Djoerd Hiemstra