sentence alignment
[ˈsentəns əˈlaɪnmənt]
nounpl: sentence alignments
alinhamento de sentenças
1. The process of matching corresponding sentences in parallel texts, typically in different languages, to create aligned bilingual or multilingual corpora
Sentence alignment is a crucial step in building machine translation systems.
O alinhamento de sentenças é uma etapa crucial na construção de sistemas de tradução automática.
2. A computational linguistics technique that pairs sentences from source and target texts that convey the same meaning
The researchers used automatic sentence alignment to process the parallel corpus.
Os pesquisadores usaram alinhamento automático de sentenças para processar o corpus paralelo.
This is a specialized technical term primarily used in computational linguistics, natural language processing research, and machine translation development communities in both Brazil and the United States. It is particularly relevant in academic settings and technology companies working on multilingual AI systems.
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