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+# Bertalign
+word embedding-based bilingual sentence aligner
+
+## Evaluation Corpus
+This section describes the procedure of creating the evaluation corpora: the manually aligned corpus (MAC) of Chinese-English literary texts and the Bible corpus aligned at the verse level.
+### MAC
+Firstly, 5 chapters and their translations are sampled from each of the 6 novels included in MAC, obtaining a corpus of 30 bitexts. We then split the corpus into **MAC-Dev** and **MAC-Test** with the former containing 6 chapters and the latter 24 chapters.
+
+The **MAC-Test** is saved in [corpus/mac/test](./corpus/mac/test)
+
+The sampling schemes for building **MAC-Test** can be found at [corpus/mac/test/meta_data.tsv](./corpus/mac/test/meta_data.tsv)
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+There are 4 subdirectories in **MAC-Test**. The [split](/corpus/mac/test/split) directory contains the sentence-split source texts, target texts and the machine translations of source texts, which are required by **Bleualign** to perform automatic alignment.
+
+The inputs to **Hunalign** are saved in the [tok](/corpus/mac/test/tok) directory.
+
+The emb directory is made up of the overlapping sentences and their embeddings for Vecalign and BertAlign.