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Gale–Church alignment algorithm

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In computational linguistics, the Gale–Church algorithm is a method for aligning corresponding sentences in a parallel corpus. It works on the principle that equivalent sentences should roughly correspond in length; that is, longer sentences in one language should correspond to longer sentences in the other language. The algorithm was described in a 1993 paper by William A. Gale and Kenneth W. Church of AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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  • Gale, William A.; Church, Kenneth W. (1993), "A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora" (PDF), Computational Linguistics, 19 (1): 75–102