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  <Title>An Alignment Method for Noisy Parallel Corpora based on Image Processing Techniques</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The algorithm's performance discussed herein can definitely be improved by enhancing the various components of the algorithms, e.g. introducing bilingual dictionaries and thesauri. However, the PlotAlign algorithms constitute a functional core for processing noisy bitext. While the evaluation is based on an English-Chinese bitext, the linguistic constraints motivating the algorithms seem to be quite general and, to a large extent, language independent. If that is the case, the algorithms  should be effective to other language pairs. The prospects for English-Japanese or Chinese-Japanese, in particular, seem highly promising. Performing the alignment task as image processing proves to be an effective approach and sheds new light on the bitext correspondence problem. We are currently looking at the possibilities of exploiting powerful and well established IP techniques to attack other problems in natural language processing.</Paragraph>
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