[Corpora-List] Aligner for ParaConc?

From: Sampo Nevalainen (samponev@cc.joensuu.fi)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 13:55:08 MET DST

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    I can't stop buggin' you people with my questions...

    I wonder if there is any (freely available) alignment tools to be used with
    ParaConc? That is, the aligner should let users save the original and
    target texts into separate files. I know there is an aligner in the WS
    Tools pack, but for some reason the program tends to "re-join" the
    sentences you already "un-joined"... Well, you can use the WSTools Aligner
    if you get the job done at once, in one go, without saving and re-opening
    the files. (I don't know whether it's my fault - I cannot use the program
    correctly - or there's a bug in the prog.) I also know there are alignment
    tools for "filling up" translation memories (e.g. Trans Suite 2000 Align,
    which is distributed freely), but they seem not to have an option of saving
    the source and the target texts into separate files. Ok, I could save the
    output file as a text file with a separator between the segments, then open
    it to Excel using these separators as column separators, and, finally, save
    each column as a separate text file... but this makes a simple task too
    complicated, IMHO.

    So, could someone help me to find out an aligner (preferably Windows GUI,
    to be used in a classroom) that would simply split the texts into sentences
    and let the user correct the alignment by joining and unjoining sentences?
    The program should then save the files into separate (ascii) text files.
    Many thanks in advance for your tips and advice!

    best,
    sampo

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