On August 9, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lars Aronssonlars@aronsson.se wrote:
Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools, TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be marked up already. Are these the best and most modern tools available?
there is a Mediawiki extension which is supposed to provide this: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:DoubleWiki_Extension
It is enabled on all wikisource subdomains. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Crito?match=el
This is a wonderful feature I didn't know about until now. But it was not what I'm looking for. In computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), a "text aligner" is a piece of software that identifies which words and phrases correspond to which in a translation. The input is a translated text and the output is a dictionary. It's like a more advanced "diff" tool.