Visual Comparison of Multilingual Documents and Lexical Matching

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the comparison and matching of documents written in different languages. Our approach is devoted to situations where documents can be conceptually represented by abstract graphs. Our approach builds on previous work yet it addresses some limitations left open by previous work. The benefits of our approach is twofold. First, our approach makes it possible to compare original multi-lingual documents without requiring a translation in a pivot language contrary to other approaches. Second, we propose a highly visual and interactive environment so that human experts can perform both comparison of documents and lexical matching in a seamless way contrary to other approaches where matching and comparison are often considered separately.