Aligned corpus

Content

1. Format of alignment result

2. Different states of aligned sentences

3. Samples of aligned Files

• Sample of english-french aligned files
• Sample of english-german aligned files
• Sample of english-italian aligned files
• Sample of english-spanish aligned files

The alignment of Multext corpus has been performed by a tool developped by the University of Lancaster. The result is conformant to the specifications of the CESANA format.

1. Format of alignment result

Files have been aligned to english version of JOC files ; the result is to be read inside XTARGETS attribute of each LINK with the ";" sign as delimiter :

<LINK XTARGETS="english sentence reference ; other languages sentence reference">

<!DOCTYPE CESALIGN PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD cesAlign//EN" []&;
<CESALIGN VERSION="1.14">
<LINKLIST>
<LINKGRP><LINK XTARGETS="C1P1S1 ;C1P1S1 ">
<LINK XTARGETS="C1P2S1 ;C1P2S1 ">
<LINK XTARGETS="C1P3S1 ;C1P3S1 ">
<LINK XTARGETS="C1P4S1 ;C1P4S1 ">

This format may be visualized in an annex file (extension : .al ) such as :

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<S ID="C1P1S1">
Subject: The staffing in the Commission of the European Communities
<S ID="C1P1S1">
Asunto: Situacịn del personal en la Comisịn de la CEE

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<S ID="C1P2S1">
Can the Commission say:
<S ID="C1P2S1">
Se ruega a la Comisịn que indique:

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Note

The result of alignment has been hand-validated on links files, so the files showing the actual sentences do not reflect exactly the alignment when corrections have been made on first files.

2. Different states of aligned sentences

• CASE Number 1
  One sentence of source language is aligned to one sentence of target language ;
  <LINK XTARGETS="C1P1S1 ;C1P1S1 ">

• CASE Number 2
  One sentence of source language is aligned to two or more sentences of target language ;
  <LINK XTARGETS="C5P5S1 ;C5P5S1 C5P6S1 ">

• CASE Number 3
  Two or more sentences of the source language are aligned to one sentence of target language ;
  <LINK XTARGETS="C29P8S1 C29P8S2 ;C29P8S1 ">

• CASE Number 4
  One sentence of source language is not aligned any sentence in the target language ;
  <LINK XTARGETS="C29P8S3 ;">

• CASE Number 5
  One sentence of target language is not aligned to any sentence in the source language ;
  <LINK XTARGETS=";C31P2S3 ">

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