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Hello all,<br>
I have a quick question regarding parallel corpora set up. Does the
cwb-align command actually do the alignment, as I understand it
does, from the terminal messages, and, if so, is it possible to
override the cwb alignment to impose one's own alignment? I'm asking
because I remember reading that the cwb-align command was not a very
efficient aligner, and so far I prefer to do the alignment myself in
advance, and to give cwb-align files with exactly the same number of
alignment fields (s tags). Despite this, I have the impression that
the command can knock this initial, hand-checked alignment out of
kilter, which is a shame, and so an override flag, if it existed,
would be nice.<br>
A related question: what does the "no alignments found" message most
often mean? I'm setting up a three-way corpus English-French-Polish.
The source text is English, the French and Polish texts are
translations but, since the alignments are based on the English, I
would like to be able to provide the option for searching in one
translated corpus, and looking for the equivalent in the other
translated corpus. So far, things work perfectly Eng-Fre and Eng-Pol
but I get the "no alignments found" message when searching in
"Fre-Pol" and yet I think I've set it all up identically...<br>
Many thanks in advance for help on all this.<br>
Best,<br>
Graham.
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