Alignment and Annotation of Chinese-English Discourse Structure Parallel Corpus
FENG Wenhe
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, He Nan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, China; School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
Abstract：Discourse structure parallel corpus is a corpus annotated with parallel discourse structure information for bilingual text. This paper proposes such an alignment and annotation strategy, the structural and relational alignment, which is the theoretical basis of Chinese-English discourse structure parallel corpus. This strategy is applied to the corpus building process, including segmental, structural, relational, and central alignment, having achieved an operation mode of parallel corps along with alignment and annotation working together, as well unit alignment and structural alignment. The strategy with the help of corresponding annotation software and the solutions to the difficulties has been proved to be an effective operation mode for discourse structure parallel corpus. Key wordsparallel corpus; alignment; discourse structure
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