We made a small change to Competitive Linking to allow consecutive sequence of words on one side to be linked to the same word on the other side.
instead of requiring both e i and f j to have no previous linkages, we only require that at least one of them be unlinked and that (suppose e i is unlinked and f j is linked to e k ) none of the words between e i and e k be linked to any word other than f j .