I wonder to what extent you could do this automatically given a text in two languages (e.g. Harry Potter). From a quick google it looks as though text alignment

I wonder to what extent you could do this automatically given a text in two languages (e.g. Harry Potter). From a quick google it looks as though text alignment might fall in the category of "possible" NLP problems[1], so it might be feasible on the sentence level.. [1] http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J93/J93-1006.pdf http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J93/J93-1006.pdf