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veronis~univ-aix.fr This paper describes the work achieved in the first half of a 4-year cooperative research project (ARCADE) , financed by AUPELF-UREF. The project is devoted to the evaluation of paral-lel text alignment techniques. In its first period ARCADE ran a competition between six sys-tems on a sentence-to-sentence alignment task which yielded two main types of results. First, a large reference bilingual corpus comprising of texts of different genres was created, each pre-senting various degrees of difficulty with respect to the alignment task. Second, significant methodological progres