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  <Title>Using bilingual dependencies to align words in Enlish/French parallel corpora</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented an efficient method for aligning words in English/French parallel corpora. It makes the most of dependency relations to produce highly accurate alignments when the same propagation pattern is used in both languages, i.e. when the syntactic structures are identical, as well as in cases of noun/adjective transpositions, even if the category of the words to be aligned varies (Ozdowska, 2004). We are currently pursuing the study of non-correspondence between syntactic structures in English and French. The aim is to determine whether there are some regularities in the rendering of specific English structures into given French ones. If variation across languages is sub-ject to such regularities, as assumed in (Dorr, 1994; Fox, 2002; Ozdowska &amp; Bourigault, 2004), the syntax-based propagation could then be extended to cases of non-correspondence in order to improve recall.</Paragraph>
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