This study proposes the bilingual segmented topic model (BiSTM), which hierarchically models documents by treating each document as a set of segments, e.g., sections. While previous bilingual topic models, such as bilingual latent Dirichlet allocation (BiLDA) (Mimno et al., 2009; Ni et al., 2009), consider only cross-lingual alignments between entire documents, the proposed model considers cros...