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  <Title>An Alignment Method for Noisy Parallel Corpora based on Image Processing Techniques</Title>
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3. Experiments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To asses the effectiveness of the PlotAlign algorithms, we conducted a series of experiments.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A novel and its translation was chosen as the test data. For simplicity, we have selected mutual information to estimate LTP. Statistics of mutual information between a source and target words is estimated using an outside source, example sentences and translation in the Longman English-Chinese Dictionary of Contemporary English (LecDOCE, Longman Group, 1992). An additional list of some 3,200 English person names and Chinese translations are used to enhance the coverage of proper nouns in the bitext.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2">  human judge. Only 40% of English text and 70% of Chinese text have a connection counterpart. This indicates the translation is not literal and there are many deletions. For instance, the following sentences are freely translated: la. It was only a quarter to eleven.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> lb. ~J~4~.;~.~'~;-~l'\] o (10:45.) 2a. She was tall, maybe five ten and a half, but she didn't stoop.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> 2b. ~d~--q~.~5_~e.~X I- o (175cm) 3a. Larry Cochran tried to keep a discreet distance away. He knew his quarry was elusive and self-protective: there were few candid pictures of her, which was what would make these valuable. He walked on the opposite side of the street from her; using a zoom lens, he had already shot a whole roll of film. When they came to Seventy-ninth Street, he caught a real break when she crossed over to him, and he realised he might be able to squeeze off full-face shots. Maybe, i{it clouded over more, she might take off her dark glasses. That would be a real coup.</Paragraph>
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