Bitext Alignment

Jörg Tiedemann is currently employed as a visiting professor of computational linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University,Sweden.He got his Ph.D.from the same department in 2003. His work is mainly focused on machine translation, question answering and data mining from multilingual resources. He has initiated and still maintains a freely available collection of parallel corpora (OPUS), which is widely used and appreciated.

• Introduction.- Basic Concepts and Terminology.- Building Parallel Corpora.- Sentence Alignment.- Word Alignment.- Phrase and Tree Alignment.- Concluding Remarks.