title: Sentence alignment using feed forward neural network.
abstract: Parallel corpora have become an essential resource for work in multi lingual natural language processing. However, sentence aligned parallel corpora are more efficient than non-aligned parallel corpora for cross language information retrieval and machine translation applications. In this paper, we present a new approach to align sentences in bilingual parallel corpora based on feed forward neural network classifier. A feature parameter vector is extracted from the text pair under consideration. This vector contains text features such as length, punctuate score, and cognate score values. A set of manually prepared training data has been assigned to train the feed forward neural network. Another set of data was used for testing. Using this new approach, we could achieve an error reduction of 60% over length based approach when applied on English-Arabic parallel documents. Moreover this new approach is valid for any language pair and it is quite flexible approach since the feature parameter vector may contain more/less or different features than that we used in our system such as lexical match feature.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijosanjima, Tokushima, Japan 770-8506. mohafi@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Mohamed Abdel
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fattah
authors.forename: Fuji
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuroiwa
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D015233:Models, Statistical; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011381:Programming Languages; D014175:Translating