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  <Title>amp;quot;Using Cognates to Align Sentences in Bilingual Corpora,&amp;quot; Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine</Title>
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7. Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The K-vec algorithm generates a quick-and-dirty estimate of a bilingual lexicon. This estimate could be used as a starting point for a more detailed alignment algorithm such as word_align (Dagan et al, 1993). In this way, we might be able to apply word_align to a broader class of language combinations including possibly English-Japanese and English-Chinese. Currently, word_align depends on charalign (Church, 1993) to generate a starting point, which limits its applicability to European languages since char_align was designed for language pairs that share a common alphabet.</Paragraph>
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