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What available alignment tools are there?
Thread poster: farahmawzi
farahmawzi
farahmawzi
Lebanon
Sep 6, 2017

Hello,

I read in previous posts some comments about available alignment tools. I intend to study this kind of software for my Master's dissertation in Translation. Below are the tools I came across while reading some discussions posted here. Do you know any other alignment tools? Do you know any articles that can be helpful (I found none on alignment tools/software)? Do you have any idea about the pros and cons of each? Your help is highly appreciated.

i. WinAlign
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Hello,

I read in previous posts some comments about available alignment tools. I intend to study this kind of software for my Master's dissertation in Translation. Below are the tools I came across while reading some discussions posted here. Do you know any other alignment tools? Do you know any articles that can be helpful (I found none on alignment tools/software)? Do you have any idea about the pros and cons of each? Your help is highly appreciated.

i. WinAlign
ii. SDL Align
iii. FarkasAndras' open source aligner (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aligner/)(free)
iv. AlignFactory light (http://terminotix.com/index.asp?name=AlignFactoryLight&content=item&brand=1&item=11&lang=en)
v. MemoQ's built in aligner
vi. Abbyy Aligner
vii. LF Aligner
viii. Hunalign
ix. Transit NXT aligner
x. Plus Tools (http://www.wordfast.com/products_plustools.html)
xi. TextAlign
xii. Bligner
xiii. bitext2tmx
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Jean Dimitriadis
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TM-Town, YouAlign Sep 6, 2017

Hello,

I think iii and vii are the same (LF Aligner).

I know TM-Town offers a nice document alignment feature.

https://www.tm-town.com/blog/document-alignment-tool-update

And there is also YouAlign - http://www.youalign.com/

Jean


 
Michael Beijer
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a few more Sep 6, 2017

farahmawzi wrote:

Hello,

I read in previous posts some comments about available alignment tools. I intend to study this kind of software for my Master's dissertation in Translation. Below are the tools I came across while reading some discussions posted here. Do you know any other alignment tools? Do you know any articles that can be helpful (I found none on alignment tools/software)? Do you have any idea about the pros and cons of each? Your help is highly appreciated.

i. WinAlign
ii. SDL Align
iii. FarkasAndras' open source aligner (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aligner/)(free)
iv. AlignFactory light (http://terminotix.com/index.asp?name=AlignFactoryLight&content=item&brand=1&item=11&lang=en)
v. MemoQ's built in aligner
vi. Abbyy Aligner
vii. LF Aligner
viii. Hunalign
ix. Transit NXT aligner
x. Plus Tools (http://www.wordfast.com/products_plustools.html)
xi. TextAlign
xii. Bligner
xiii. bitext2tmx


iii = viii

LF Aligner also relies on Hunalign (viii) for automatic sentence pairing.

In my opinion, the best aligner out there is AlignFactory and AlignFactory Light, which is the paid, desktop version of the free (and limited), online YouAlign (mentioned by Jean). See: http://terminotix.com/index.asp?content=brand&brand=1&lang=en

There is also ABBYY Aligner, now free for freelance translators. See: https://www.abbyy.com/en-gb/aligner/

I think there are also a few other open source ones.

And there is the Felix CAT tool's aligner, Align Assist. see: http://felix-cat.com/tools/align-assist/

[Edited at 2017-09-06 18:24 GMT]

oops, just saw you already had a few of them in yr list

[Edited at 2017-09-06 18:25 GMT]


Hanna Swaryczewska
 
Oliver Pekelharing
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Felix alignassist Sep 6, 2017

I rarely align anything, but Felix alignassist has helped me out a couple of times. It's easy to use and free: http://felix-cat.com/tools/align-assist/

Regards,

Olly


 
Rodolfo Raya
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Stingray Document Aligner Sep 6, 2017

Check Stingray, a cross platform aligner from Maxprograms https://www.maxprograms.com/products/stingray.html

Regards,
Rodolfo


 
farahmawzi
farahmawzi
Lebanon
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Thanks Sep 7, 2017

Thanks all!

 
Gerard de Noord
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Wordfast Aligner Sep 7, 2017

Wordfast Aligner (free online tool)
http://www.wordfast.net/?go=align


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Vladimir Morozov
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Actually, Abbyy Aligner is free Sep 12, 2017

only to registered users of SmartCAT.

Hanna Swaryczewska
 
Didier Briel
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OmegaT Sep 13, 2017

farahmawzi wrote:
I read in previous posts some comments about available alignment tools. I intend to study this kind of software for my Master's dissertation in Translation. Below are the tools I came across while reading some discussions posted here. Do you know any other alignment tools?

OmegaT built-in aligner (available since 4.0).

Didier


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Nicolas Bianchi
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My two cents... To give you some information to start with :-) Sep 15, 2017

I own all three of the following products and was looking for a way to align hundreds of pairs of translated documents. I spend many hours doing so...

Terminotix’s Align Factory light
I use it within LogiTerm Pro, bought it on the base of YouAlign.
It does a fast and decent job with basic documents, but as there is no option whatsoever to set segmentation rules, German dates (20. Januar) or legal references (Art. 56 Abs. 4 Lit. 3) lead to terrible segment
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I own all three of the following products and was looking for a way to align hundreds of pairs of translated documents. I spend many hours doing so...

Terminotix’s Align Factory light
I use it within LogiTerm Pro, bought it on the base of YouAlign.
It does a fast and decent job with basic documents, but as there is no option whatsoever to set segmentation rules, German dates (20. Januar) or legal references (Art. 56 Abs. 4 Lit. 3) lead to terrible segmentation, and often unusable alignments.

Trados Studio Alignment
Batch alignment of files is fast, but leads to many errors messages, as all documents with unconfirmed track changes (or activated track changes) are excluded.
And when aligning hundreds of files, there can be many of them...
The alignment is of good quality, as segmentation rules can be applied.
But the alignment editor is terrible. Correcting the alignment would take a lot of time, and using a Studio TM made of non corrected aligned documents is a nonsense.

memoQ LiveDocs Corpus
Processes everything, few error messages, good alignment, nice alignment editor... My tool of choice when aligning a multitude of bilingual pairs of docs.
Why? Simply because the LD corpus works like a TM made of documents, not segments. It’s therefore possible to use a non corrected aligned LD corpus, as in case of misalignments, the corresponding LD document can be opened and the alignment adjusted on the fly.
There’s no need to invest time in correcting alignments upfront.
When working in a project with attached TM, all LD corpus can be sent into the TM. But this is not necessary, as the corpus itself works like a TM.
In order to correct the alignment, it’s straightforward as well:
- Create a project
- Import for translation all source documents that have been aligned in the LD corpus
- Attach a TM and the corresponding corpus
- Pretranslate
- Open and edit (very fast as alignment is of good quality)
- Once all is done, export all as bilingual files into the LD Corpus.
- Delete the aligned pairs from the corpus.

Important: in order to have a good alignment, segmentation rules must be applied. And to apply segmentation rules, it’s necessary to create the LD corpus within a project. Otherwise the default rules are used.

Oh, I own CafeTran Espresso also. It has also an alignment tool. But I have never used it.

To use (test) ABBYY Aligner (SmartCAT), you need to spend at least two hours filling out the profile first... It wasn’t worth the hassle to me.

[Edited at 2017-09-15 13:56 GMT]
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alsim
alsim
Russian Federation
AlSim Parallel Texts Reader Sep 16, 2017

It is not a dedicated alignment tool but an editor of bilingual texts, actually, so that it makes the inherently aligned texts.
Suits well for manual alignment.

Hobby project currently in the proof-of-concept stage.

https://youtu.be/0Tvw9XNcgB0


 
Nicolas Bianchi
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Yep, I thought as well about additional tools... Sep 16, 2017

Heartsome (my favourite) and Olifant are free TMX Editors.

CafeTran Espresso also allows TMX editing.

[Edited at 2017-09-16 14:18 GMT]


 
Nicolas Bianchi
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For the sake of accuracy... Sep 17, 2017

Nicolas Bianchi wrote:

Terminotix’s Align Factory light
... there is no option whatsoever to set segmentation rules, German dates (20. Januar) or legal references (Art. 56 Abs. 4 Lit. 3) lead to terrible segmentation, and often unusable alignments.


To be totally accurate: it is possible to add abbreviations to an abbreviation list for each language. But this is sadly not enough to ensure a good segmentation. If it supported Regex rules, the tool would be one of the very bests out there.

[Edited at 2017-09-17 05:46 GMT]


 
farahmawzi
farahmawzi
Lebanon
TOPIC STARTER
Thank you once more Sep 19, 2017

Thank you truly. You have been great help.

 
Kaspars Melkis
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this was helpful to me Oct 13, 2018

At the end I used FarkasAndras' open source aligner. At first I tried SDL Trados align but it choked with medium size documents, I mean, it was terribly slow and therefore unusable. Farkas' tool however was simple to install, easy use, fast reacting and the final export to tmx was automatic. Good job!

 
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