Using StrongÕs Numbers in the Bible to test an automatic

alignment of parallel texts1 We describe a method for the automatic alignment of parallel texts using co-occurrence statistics. The assumption of this approach is that words which are often found together are linked in some way. We employ this assumption to automatically suggest links between words in different languages, using Bible verses as information units. The result is a word-by-word alignment between between different translations of the Bible. The accuracy of our method is evaluated by using StrongÕs numbers as a benchmark. Overall, the performance is high, indicating that this approach can be used to give an approximate gloss of Bible verses. 1