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Alignment of the sentences of an original text and a translation is considerably better understood than alignment of smaller units such as words and phrases. This paper makes some preliminary proposals for solving the problem of aligning substrings that should be treated as basic translation unites even though they may not begin and end at word boundaries. The proposals make crucial use of suffix trees as a way of identifying repeated substrings of the texts that occur significantly often.
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Kay, M. (2004). Substring Alignment Using Suffix Trees. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24630-5_34
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