We investigate whether the Wikipedia corpus is amenable to multilingual analysis that aims at generating parallel corpora. We present the results of the application of two simple heuristics for the identification of similar text across multiple languages in Wikipedia. Despite the simplicity of the methods, evaluation carried out on a sample of Wikipedia pages shows encouraging results.
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