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A quantitative representation of discourse structure can be computed by measuring lexical cohesion relations among adjacent text elements. These representations have previously been proposed to deal with sub-topic text segmentation. In a parallel corpus, similar representations can be derived for versions of a text in various languages. These can be used for parallel segmentation and as an alternative measure of text-translation similarity 1.
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Van Der Eijk, P. (1999). Comparative Discourse Analysis of Parallel Texts. In: Armstrong, S., Church, K., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (eds) Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2390-9_16
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