Noémie Elhadad

Grad student, noemie@cs.columbia.edu

Title: Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora

Time: Thursday May 1, 12noon - 1pm

Place: CS Conference Room in MUDD

Abstract:

In this talk I will focus on the problem of sentence alignment for monolingual corpora. Aligning large comparable corpora automatically would provide a valuable resource for learning of text-to-text rewriting rules. I will present a method that uses a weak sentence similarity measure combined with contextual information, taking advantage of the topical structure of the texts.