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>Notice how there's an extra sentence at the end about him having an enigmatic personage not present in the French version.

There's no real "paragraph matching". They just took old texts translated in 2 languages and assumed they match paragraph for paragraph.

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We do have a tool that does real paragraph matching based on the Gale–Church alignment algorithm and offline dictionaries. On top of that we have an additional manual process to make sure that the alignment is correct. However many of the books were pre matched and we didn't align them using our tool.

It would work better on poetry, where skilled translators themselves are poets and do seek to match up the verses; in parallel texts I own.

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