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Originally seen as a problem in translation of multilingual texts, the alignment of corresponding entities from two versions of a document has become a scientific research topic. In this paper, natural language processing methods are reviewed and an alignment algorithm is presented that takes into account both the linguistic features, and the structural data present in modern multilingual documents.
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Ballim, A., Coray, G., Linden, A., Vanoirbeek, C. (1998). The use of automatic alignment on structured multilingual documents. In: Hersch, R.D., André, J., Brown, H. (eds) Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography. RIDT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053292
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