In this paper we present and evaluate three approaches to measure comparability of documents in non-parallel corpora. We develop a task-oriented definition of comparability, based on the performance of automatic extraction of translation equivalents from the documents aligned by the proposed metrics, which formalises intuitive definitions of comparability for machine translation research. We de...

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However food webs have always been considered as a central issue of ecology, their value and usefulness are frequently questioned. In this paper, I overview some causes of this skepticism and discuss in which cases two or more food webs can be compared. I suggest that the comparability of different food webs is a key to possible applications. I show how are two important topics of recent commun...