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. This paper looks at Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), and the claim that there is no noun-verb distinction within the language as it is spoken in regions such as Riau and Jakarta. We test this claim for the language as it is written by a variety of Indonesian speakers using empirical …...

. In this paper, we provide a complete description of Hindi verbal inflection within the framework of Distributed morphology. We discuss the categories that are visible on the verb itself and on associated auxiliaries. We show how both analysis and generation are possible using this model. We also discuss the …...

. This paper outlines an annotation scheme we developed for a corpus of fables. Reference is made to previous studies on discourse structure and story grammar, as well as discourse relations and text coherence. The applicability and adequacy of the various frameworks for annotating and analysing fables are considered. The …...

. This paper outlines the creation of the Wordnet Bahasa as a resource for the study of lexical semantics in the Malay language. It is created by combining information from several lexical resources: the French-English-Malay dictionary FEM, the KAmus Melayu- Inggeris KAMI, and wordnets for English, French and Chinese. Construction …...

. Machine Translation systems expect target language output to be grammatically correct. In Myanmar-English statistical machine translation system, target language output (English) can often be ungrammatical. To address this issue, we propose an ongoing chunk-based grammar checker by using trigram language model and rule based model. It is able to …...

. This paper presents two approaches that identify which parts of an implemented grammar are used and which parts are computationally inactive. Our results lead to the following insights: even small grammars contain noise due to revised analyses, removing superfluous types from a grammar may help to detect errors in …...

. This paper presents a solution for overcoming the lexical resource gap when mounting rule-based Constraint Grammar systems for minor languages, or in the face of licensing and financing limitations. We investigate how the performance of a CG disambiguation grammar responds to shifting input parameters, among them lexicon limitations of …...

. The present paper proposes automatic error analysis methods that use patterns representing grammatical check points. Our method is comparable to or slightly outperforms conventional methods for automatic evaluation metrics. Different from the conventional methods, our method enables error analysis for each grammatical check point. While our method does not …...

. In the research field of machine translation of patent documents, the issue of ac- quiring technical term translation equivalent pairs automatically from parallel patent docu- ments is one of those most important. We take an approach of utilizing the phrase table of a state-of-the-art phrase-based statistical machine translation model. …...

. This study investigates the L1 acquisition of the Korean imperfective aspect markers -ko iss- and -a iss-, and attempts to identify language-general and language- specific acquisition patterns through comparison with Japanese. In cross-linguistic research on the acquisition of tense-aspect marking, children have been observed to associate progressive marking with …...

. In this paper, we describe the two tests developed and designed for Marathi using non-words, a) plural formation for non-words b) intuition test for gender assignment in which subjects were asked to assign gender to non-words. We look at the distribution of nouns across noun classes and genders and …...

. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach for Tibetan word segmentation using the conditional random field. We reformulate the segmentation as a syllable tagging problem. The approach labels each syllable with a word-internal position tag, and combines syllable(s) into words according to their tags. As there is no …...

. We propose in this paper a new contribution to the evaluation of linguistic diffi- culty. At the opposite of classical approaches relying on syntax, we show that a probabilis- tic morpho-syntactic analysis provides information enough to calculate different parameters, including surprisal. This method constitutes an original and robust model …...

. This paper describes an approach to improve the performance of sampling-based multilingual alignment on translation tasks by investigating the distribution of n-grams in the translation tables. This approach consists in enforcing the alignment of n-grams. The quality of phrase translation tables output by this approach and that of MGIZA++ …...

. The hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) model on the basis of a synchronous context-free grammar (SCFG) is prominent in solving global reorderings. However, the HPB model is inadequate to supervise the reordering process so that sometimes positions of dif- ferent lexicons are switched due to the incorrect SCFG rules. In this …...

. Verb Particle Constructions (VPCs) are flexible in nature and hence quite complex and challenging to handle. As a consequence, VPCs generate a lot of interest for NLP community. Despite their prevalence in English they are not handled very well, and hence often result in poor quality of translation. In …...

. This paper presents Myanmar phrases translation model with morphological analysis. The system is based on statistical approach. In statistical machine translation, large amount of information is needed to guide the translation process. When small amount of training data is available, morphological analysis is needed especially for morphology rich language. …...

. In statistical machine translation, the number of sentence pairs in the bilingual corpus is very important to the quality of translation. However, when the quantity reaches some extent, enlarging the corpus has less effect on the translation quality; whereas increasing greatly the time and space complexity to train the …...

. An interesting issue “whether the factual search result is better than the satisfactory one?” is discussed in this paper, and all effort is to illustrate the publicly recognized conception “the supreme satisfactory result is optimal” could lead Information Retrieval astray. By contrast, we propose a new hypothesis “the factually …...

. Numerous studies have analyzed the influences of word segmentation (WS) performance on information retrieval (IR) for Mandarin Chinese and have demonstrated a non-monotonic relationship between WS accuracy and IR effectiveness. The usefulness of the compound words that have been a focus of the IR literature is not reflected by …...