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VisualLIHLA: the visual online tool for lexical alignment

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This paper presents a freely available online lexical alignment tool based on the LIHLA lexical aligner. LIHLA aligns tokens, words and multiword units based on language-independent heuristics (cognates, position, etc.) and automatically built language-dependent resources (bilingual dictionaries). VisualLIHLA allows the online usage, visualization and download of the lexical alignments produced by LIHLA with 84--92% of precision and 76--91% of recall.

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    WebMedia '08: Companion Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
    October 2008
    420 pages
    ISBN:9788576691990
    DOI:10.1145/1809980

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    1. Brazilian Portuguese
    2. lexical alignment
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