Perspectives on the Frame/Thread Architecture for Multilingual Alignments
Multilingual text alignment is challenging due to the complexity of text and discourse organisation. Multilingual textual space can be explored using a textometric data model (Thread/Frame). A Thread is a textual flow represented as a system of items with position identifiers. A Frame is used to locate different textual objects (containers and contents) and their contexts. Following these principles, all text parts and annotations (including alignments) are stored and exchanged through different computerised procedures. Incremental textual resources trace all processing steps (from the initial segmentation to subsequent explorations and quantitative analyses). The software implementation of this model in Le Trameur allows exploring richly annotated multilingual text corpora (treebanks).