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  <Title>Philippe.Langlais~speech.kth.se</Title>
  <Section position="3" start_page="711" end_page="711" type="intro">
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2 Organization
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    <Paragraph position="0"> ARCADE is an evaluation exercise financed by AUPELF-UREF, a network of (at least partially) French-speaking universities. It was launched in 1995 to promote research in the field of multilingual alignment. The first 2-year period (96-97) was dedicated to two main tasks: 1) producing a reference bilingual corpus (French-English) aligned at sentence level; 2) evaluating several sentence alignment systems through an ARPA-like competition.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the first phase of ARCADE, two types of teams were involved in the project: the corpus providers (LPL and RALI) and the (RALI, LO-ILIA, ISSCO, IRMC and LIA). General coordination was handled by J. V~ronis (LPL); a discussion group was set up and moderated by Ph. Langlais (LIA &amp; KTH).</Paragraph>
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