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. The notion of a translator's workstation has been widely discussed at various points in the history of translation and computers, and a number of tools and language resources have been proposed for inclusion in it, ranging from general purpose text-editing facilities, to tools designed specifically for translators, such as …...

. On-line machine translation (MT) services are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users. In particular, over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of monolingual web-sites that rely on Internet-based MT systems to disseminate their contents in a variety of languages, which seems to …...

. This paper presents a syntactic analysis of a fragment of Amharic noun phrases. Amharic noun phrases possess some peculiar characteristics especially relating to the syntax of the definite article. The definite article shows some morphological and distributional characteristics distinct from languages such as English and German, which makes it …...

. In this paper we introduce Linear B's statistical machine translation system. We describe how Linear B's phrase-based translation models are learned from a parallel corpus, and show how the quality of the translations produced by our system can be improved over time through editing. There are two levels at …...

We report on the results of an experiment aimed at enabling a machine translation system to select the appropriate strategy for dealing with words and phrases which have different translations depending on whether they are used as proper names or common nouns in the source text. We used the ANNIE …...

. We present an approach to the machine translation of French to Arabic in which we explain each of the different steps and some of the problems encountered at each level of linguistic analysis together with their solutions. We show that for high quality translation, an approach which is both …...

. The first research on integrating controlled language data in an Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system was published in [Gough & Way, 2003]. We improve on their sub-sentential alignment algorithm to populate the system’s databases with more than six times as many potentially useful fragments. Together with two simple novel …...

. Software vendors operating in international markets face two problems: first, products must be localised to meet the requirements of each target country; then there is the need to support diverse customers, where end-users may not speak the same language as the helpdesk. Localisation (new versions of screens, help text …...

A verb particle construction (VPC) classification scheme gleaned from linguistic sources has been used to assess its usefulness for identifying issues in decomposability. Linguistic sources have also been used to inform the features suitable for use in building an automatic classifier for the scheme with a series of good performance …...

Systemic functional linguistics offers a grammar that is semantically organised, so that salient gram- matical choices are made explicit. This paper de- scribes the explication of these choices through the conversion of the Penn Treebank into a systemic functional grammar corpus. Developing such a re- source can help connect work …...

Selectional preferences are a source of linguistic infor- mation commonly applied to the task of Word Sense Dis- ambiguation (WSD). To date, WSD systems using se- lectional preferences as the main disambiguation mech- anism have achieved limited success. One possible rea- son for this limitation is the limited number of …...

Language technology makes extensive use of hierarchi- cally annotated text and speech data. These databases are stored in flat files and manipulated using corpus-specific query tools or special-purpose scripts. While the size of these databases and the range of applications has grown rapidly in recent years, neither method for managing …...

This paper describes a tool for acquiring un- known words, which operates in a bilingual human-machine dialogue system. When the user’s utterance includes a word which is not in the system’s lexicon, the system initiates a subdialogue to find out about the new word, by querying the user about the …...

Linguistic forms are inherently multi-dimensional. They exhibit a variety of phonological, orthographic, morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties. Accordingly, linguistic analysis involves multi- dimensional exploration, a process in which the same collection of forms is laid out in many ways until clear patterns emerge. Equally, language documentation usually contains tabulations of …...

This paper investigates the application of Max- imum Entropy Markov Models to semantic role labelling. Syntactic chunks are labelled according to the semantic role they fill for sentence verb pred- icates. The model is trained on the subset of Prop- bank data provided for the Conference on Compu- tational Natural …...

The identification of semantically related terms for a given word is an important problem. A number of statistical approaches have been proposed to ad- dress this problem. Most approaches draw their statistics from a large general corpus. In this pa- per, we propose to use specialized corpora which focus strongly …...

We discuss the data sources available for ut- terance disambiguation in a bilingual dialogue system, distinguishing global, contextual, and user-specific domains, and syntactic and seman- tic levels. We propose a framework for combin- ing the available information, and techniques for increasing a stochastic grammar’s sensitivity to local context and a …...

Systemic features use linguistically- derived language models as a basis for text classification. The graph structure of these models allows for feature repre- sentations not available with traditional bag-of-words approaches. This paper explores the set of possible represen- tations, and proposes feature selection methods that aim to produce the most …...

We describe the framework for an intelligent multimedia presentation system we designed to be part of the FOCAL laboratory, a semi-immersive environment for Command and Control Environment. FOCAL comprises a number of input devices and output media, animated virtual conversational characters, a spoken dialogue system, and sophisticated visual displays. These …...

Applying CCG to domains outside of linguistics could require different sets of combinators to be developed for each domain. The meta-grammar described in this paper aims to assist such development by enabling simple, succinct expression of both existing and new combinator definitions. It favours the development of an easily-configurable, one- …...