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Word alignment, the process of inferring the implicit links between words across two languages, serves as an integral piece of the puzzle of learning linguistic translation knowledge. It enables us to acquire automatically from data the rules that govern the transformation of wo…

Bitext alignment is the task of finding translation equivalence between documents in two languages, collections of which are commonly known as bitext. This dissertation addresses the problems of statistical alignment at various granularities from sentence to word with the goal o…