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Parallel corpora are among the most important linguistic resources used in multilingual language processing such as statistical machine translation, cross language information retrieval, and so on. Manually constructing such corpora takes a very high cost while there are many available parallel e-books containing a large number of parallel texts. This paper focuses on the task of aligning paragraphs of English-Vietnamese parallel e-books. A new method for this alignment is proposed. By doing an experiment we have collected an English-Vietnamese parallel corpus which contains nearly 40,000 sentence pairs aligned at the paragraph level.
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Le, QH., Nguyen, DC., Pham, DH., Le, AC., Huynh, VN. (2014). Paragraph Alignment for English-Vietnamese Parallel E-Books. In: Huynh, V., Denoeux, T., Tran, D., Le, A., Pham, S. (eds) Knowledge and Systems Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02821-7_23
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