User Guide

SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 165
Use Cognate
If the option is selected (default) the document aligner tries harder to align
cognates in source and target language sentences.
Minimal
Cognate Size
Specifies the minimal size of the cognate (default 4 characters).
Alignment Window Optimization
SYSTRAN Document Aligner determines the alignment between source and target
documents via the current analysis point, taking into account a set number of sentences
surrounding this point as defined by the user.
Alignment
Window Size
Defines the number of sentences searched for alignment around the
current analysis point in the document, as a percentage of the number of
sentences in the document. Default is 10.
Minimal Number
of Sentences
Defines the minimal number of sentences searched for alignment around
the current analysis point in the document. Default is 500.
Alignment Penalties
Alignment penalties are assessed when a source language sentence(s) does not cleanly
correlate with a target language counterpart, or vice versa. The higher the value of the
penalty, the less likely an alignment will occur.
The three (3) potential alignment penalties include:
0:1
Alignments
A source language sentence does not have a counterpart in the target
language, or vice versa. Default is 450.
2:1
Alignments
Two sentences in the source language correlate to one sentence in the target
language, or vice versa. Default is 230.
2:2
Alignments
Two sentences in the source language correlate to two sentences in the target
language, or vice versa. Default is 440.