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  <Title>Philippe.Langlais~speech.kth.se</Title>
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7 Conclusion and future work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The ARCADE evaluation exercise has allowed for significant methodological progress on parallel text alignment. The discussions among participants on the question of a testing protocol resulted in the definition of several evaluation measures and an assessment of their relative merits. The comparative study of the systems performance also yielded a better understanding of the various techniques involved. As a significant spin-off, the project has produced a large aligned bilingual corpus, composed of several types of texts, which can be used as a gold standard for future evaluation. Grounded on the experience gained in the first test campaign, the second (1998-1999) has been opened to more te~m.q and plans to tackle more difficult problems, such as word-level alignment. 1</Paragraph>
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