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  <Title>A Part-of-Speech-Based Alignment Algorithm</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="169" end_page="170" type="concl">
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6. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A new criterion to aligning texts is proposed in this paper. The criterion is based on an observation that the source texts and thc target texts should share the same concepts, entities, ideas, and events. Sentence length (no matter word-based or character-based) (Brown, el al., 1991; Gale and Church, 1991a), is not so critical on languages across different language families. Translation-based crilcrion (Kay, 1991; ChErt, 1993) is very. uscfifl, but il is also very complex. Surely, to decide word correspondences is difficull.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our criterion provides a tradcoff between the length-based criterion and the translation-based criterion. The elucs of critical POSes are parlially syntactic and partially statislic~d.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> ThE performance of simulated annealing approach to alignment is 94% in our Experiment, if we use the paragraph markers. Without paragraph marker, the value drops lo 78%. GEnerally speaking, it works well for languages across different language families.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The main conlribntion of lhis work is to provide an alignment algorithm for aligning oriental langvages with occidental languages. The fitture work should focus on the large experiment, normalizing the weight of critical POSes and other search techniques.</Paragraph>
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