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Classical methods for parallel text alignment consider one specific level (e.g. sentences) at which two or more versions of a text are synchronised. This may lead to some problems when these documents are particularly long since alignment errors at some point in the text may, in the absence of any other linguistic information, propagate for some time without any chance of recovery. In this chapter we consider how multilingual parallel alignment can be based on the fact that more and more texts are now highly structured by means of tagging languages such as SGML. In particular we will describe recent efforts in multi-level alignment for which we will present the main advances as well as some of the difficulties to be dealt with, particularly when the text and its translation contain different encoding schemes or different encoding practices for the same scheme.
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Romary, L., Bonhomme, P. (2000). Parallel alignment of structured documents. In: Véronis, J. (eds) Parallel Text Processing. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2535-4_10
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