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The LDC Word Aligner is a Python-based tool used for annotating manual word alignments (or gold standard alignments). Sentence-segmented parallel texts are required as input.
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The LDC Word Aligner is a Python-based tool used for annotating manual word alignments (or gold standard alignments). Sentence-segmented parallel texts are required as input.

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README 

        
LDC Word Aligner

version 1.20



Stephen Grimes

[email protected]

Linguistic Data Consortium

November 2011



Table of Contents

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 1. Description

 2. System Requirements

 3. Package Contents

 4. Getting Started

  4.1 Starting the program

  4.2 Startup Wizard

  4.3 Using the program

 5. Features / Usage

  5.1 Aligment deletion or removing a token from an alignment

  5.2 Adding a token to an alignment

  5.3 Combining two links

  5.4 Automatic file saving

  5.5 Sentence navigation

  5.6 Alignment table

  5.7 Rejecting sentences

  5.8 Undo

  5.9 Colors

 6. Known Issues

 7. Copyright Info

 8. Acknowledgments

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1. Description



The LDC Word Aligner is a Python-based tool used for annotating manual word

alignments (or gold standard alignments). Sentence-segmented parallel texts

are required as input.



2. System Requirements



The tool was developed on a Debian Linux system using Python and PyQt.

Before using the tool, install python2.6 and PyQt4 and ensure that python2.6

is in your path. On a Linux system using apt-get, this can be done as

follows:



 sudo apt-get install python2.6 python-qt4



Test your system setup by typing "python2.6" to start python followed by

"import PyQt4". If this is successful, you have met the required dependencies.



A Windows executable was created using py2exe and is included. It has not been

extensively tested.



3. Package contents



docs/:



 README.txt -- this file

 gpl-3.0.txt -- GNU General Public License



 guidelines/

   Annotator guidelines used by LDC under the GALE project.

   LDC_GALE_Arabic_alignment_guidelines_v6.0.pdf

   LDC_GALE_Chinese_WA_tagging_guidelines_v1.0.pdf

   LDC_GALE_Chinese_alignment_guidelines_v4.0.pdf



 papers/

   Conference proceedings related to LDC Word Aligner.



samples/:



 .wa files

 parallel texts for creating .wa files



scripts/:



 makeWA.pl - create an empty .wa file from two parallel .txt files

 reverseWA.pl - switch source and translation lanaguages in a WA file

 compareWA.py - calculate precision, recall, f-score between two WA files

 WordAlignment.py - module used for a variety of manipulations of WA files



tool/:



 ldc_word_aligner - wrapper script to launching tool



 code/

    This directory contains all .py modules files required and the main

    program, aligner.py. Additionally, tags.txt allows for adding or removing

    possible word tags. See header of tags.txt for details.



 windows/

    LDCWordAligner.v1.20.msi - MS Windows installer



4. Getting Started



 4.1 Starting the program



The user changes to the appropriate directory of the executable, or the user

types the entire path to the exectuable. This is optionally followed by the

filename of the alignment file to open.



If no file is specified, a wizard is used to select an existing alignment

file or create one from a source and tokenized pair of files.



  Sample usage:



  a. Full paths, existing file:

  /path/to/tool/aligner.py -f /path/to/file/filename.wa



  b. Relative paths, create blank parallel file from source and tokenized:

  aligner.py -s chinese.tkn -t english.tkn -f parallel.wa



  c. Opening the file to a specific sentence, say the third:

  /path/to/tool/aligner.py -i 3 -f /path/to/file/filename.wa



  If the user does not use -i to specify a sentence to start at, the tool

  will resume to the first sentence for which annotation has not been

  completed.



 4.2 File Wizard



Using the wizard a new .wa file can be created from two language files with

an equal number of sentences. Each sentence must appear on one line. See

examples in the "samples" directory. The wizard can also be used to open an

existing .wa file.



Note: Do not use the option to add "raw" files; it has not been fully

implemented. The wizard offers the option to include raw source files

(untokenized), which can be used to display an alternate version of the

source and translation texts in the sentence navigation area. This current

version of the tool does not fully support raw text data (it will not be

stored properly).



Avoid using the LDC Arabic Config and LDC Chinese Config options. These are

primarily intedended for LDC-internal annotation.



 4.3 Using the program



The user begins by highlighting words to be aligned together. When all

necessary tokens are selected, a link is created by selecting the "Correct"

or "Incorrect" buttons (or choosing the corresponding keyboard shortcuts,

space and "i").



To assign tokens as "Not Translated - Correct" or "Not Translated -

Incorrect" click the appropriate button or use the corresponding shortcut.

For convenience, multiple not translated tokens from the same language can

be highlighted at once and assigned "Not Translated - Correct" by pressing

the space bar.



Tags are selected by right clicking in the box containing a token and

choosing from the context menu. Default tags are Meta Word (MET),

Tokenization Error (TOK), and Typo (TYP), but these can be altered in the

tags.txt configuration file according to the needs of a project.



 4.4 Saving and exiting



The user may save the file at any time by selecting File->Save from the

menu.  The program automatically saves when advancing to the next sentence.



The program does not have Exit option in Menu. Instead, to quit, select the

X at the top corner of your screen (or on some systems Alt+F4. You will be

given the option to save; if you do not save, all annotated sentences but

the last are likely to have been saved.



5. Program features



 5.1 Alignment deletion or removing a token from an alignment



Alignments may be deleted by first selecting the link to delete from the

lower right link table, then clicking the Delete button in the bottom right

corner of the screen. Links selected by clicking them in the annotation

area on the left of the screen can be deleted by clicking the Delete button

or by pressing the Del key on the keyboard. Additionally, individual words

may be removed from a larger link by double clicking on the box of the

word.  If the word is the last remaining word from one language in a link,

the entire link is removed. Deleting "Not Translated" links works the same

way.



 5.2 Adding a token to an alignment



Tokens can be added to existing links by selecting the existing link (either

click on a word that is part of the link or select the link in the table).

Once the existing link is selected, select the word to be added and press

space bar (or "i" for an incorrect link).



 5.3 Combining two links



Multiple alignments can be combined by selecting them while holding down

CTRL on the keyboard and then clicking the appropriate link type button (or

pressing space bar or i) as usal. Once two or more existing links are

selected with the CTRL key, it is possible to add previously unlinked words

as described above in 5.2.



 5.4 Automatic file saving



The user may save the file at any time by selecting File->Save from the

menu.  The program automatically saves when advancing to the next sentence.



 5.5 Sentence navigation (upper right of display)



The Next and Previous buttons may be used for sentence navigation.

Alternatively, the user may change to any sentence by double clicking on

that sentence in the source or translation boxes on the upper right side.

The Refresh button reloads the current sentence and can be used to revert

annotations to the saved version.



 5.6 Alignment table (lower right of display)



The alignment table displays all alignments for the current sentence. It can

be used to quickly review in table format the links for the sentence. The

table is sorted by a given column heading by clicking on that heading.

Selecting a link brings it to focus in the annotation area to the left.

Links can be deleted from this table by clicking the Delete button at the

bottom right corner of the screen.



 5.7 Rejecting sentences



Annotators may explicity reject sentences. This is handled in the edit menu.

This makes clear that the sentence is invalid for annotation for some reason

such as incorrect translation, offensive material, or plain gibberish. The

.wa file for rejected sentences contains status="rejected" instead of

status="".



 5.8 Undo



The Undo button removes the last link in the link table.  This is usually

the last link added, although the order of links in the link table may

change if the sentence is reloaded.



 5.9 Colors



 Annotation area (left side):



 Yellow      Unannotated tokens

 Lavender    Selected tokens

 Green       Composite links

 Light blue  Not translated

 Red         Incorrect, Not Translated Incorrect



 Sentence navigation area (upper right):



 White      Blank sentence (no alignments)

 Red        Partially-annotated sentence

 Green      Completely alignmed sentence



6. Known issues



In order to tag a word, the user may have difficulty if right-clicking on

the word itself. Instead click in an area of the box where there are no

words or tags.



Currently one word is not permitted to be a member of multiple separate

links. Also, if a word is a member of an alignment, it must be linked to all

words in the oppoistive language participating in the alignment. These

behaivors are by design.



The file format for alignments has grown organically but would be useful to

be modified eventually. The current format is designed to be human-readable.



7. Acknowledgments



Thanks to John Mayer, Mishal Awadah, Pranshu Sharma, and Katherine Peterson

for their help in developing, enhancing, and testing features of the tool.



8. Copyright Info



LDC Word Aligner version 1.20 developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium.

Portions (c) 2011 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania



Portions (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Python Software

Foundation, All Rights Reserved.



Parts of this program are written in Python, and this package

contains Python runtime.



This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 3

along with this program. If not, see .



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README Created October 27, 2011 Stephen Grimes

README Modified November 10, 2011 Stephen Grimes

Code copied and uploaded April 24, 2018 Richard Littauer