Japa – A Sentence Alignement Program

 

 

Japa is sentence aligner. Given two texts which are a translation of each other, it produces a sequence of alignments as well as a global score reflecting the cost of this alignment. The alignment produced are of the type m-n (m and n can be 0, 1, 2), where m and n are the number of source and target sentences, respectively.

 

The man page for the program is available here.

 

To obtain the software, please contact Philippe Langlais.

 

For more detail, see the articles

Philippe Langlais (1997) "A System to Align Complex Bilingual Corpora" in TMH-QPSR 4/1997, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997 [ps]

 

Philippe Langlais, Michel Simard , Jean Véronis (1998) "Methods and Practical Issues in Evaluating Alignment Techniques" in Proceedings of 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistic , Montréal, Canada, August 10-14, 1998 [ps]