... edit-distance function (LD). This mea-sure is obtained by finding the cheapest wayto transform one string into another. Trans-formations are the one-step operations of in-sertion, deletion and ... threshold values. The second one, S2, is composed of 79 Spanish news and 70 Englishnews, that is 149 news. The third subset, S3, con-tains 179 news: 93 in Spanish and 86 in English.In order to test ... IdentificationWe propose an approach for MDC based only on cognate NE identification. The NEs cate-gories that we take into account are: PERSON,ORGANIZATION, LOCATION, and MISCEL-LANY. Other...