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AbstractAn innovative way of integrating Translation Memory (TM) and Machine Translation (MT) processing is presented which goes beyond the traditional "cascade" integration of Translation Memory and Machine Translation. The new method aims to automatically post-edit TM similar matches by the use of an MT module thus enhancing the TM fuzzy …...

AbstractThis paper shows on the basis of a corpus study how a model of the context should be structured for the generation of coreferring descriptions in French. We show that this way of structuring the context can help to generate more paraphrases and a particular kind of referring expressions used …...

AbstractThe development of the evaluation of domain-specific cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is shown in the context of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) campaigns from 2000 to 2003. The pre-conditions and the usable data and additionally available instruments are described. The main goals of this task of CLEF are to allow …...

AbstractIn this paper, we propose an annotation scheme which can be used not only for annotating coreference relations between linguistic expressions, but also those among linguistic expressions and images, in scientific texts such as biomedical articles. Images in biomedical domain often contain important information for analyses and diagnoses, and we …...

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to discuss aspects of an on-going project on the development of grammatical and lexical resources for Zulu with sufficient coverage for unrestricted text. We explain how the basic software tools of computational morphology are used in linguistic processing, more specifically for automatic word form …...

AbstractWe present a supervised method for training a sentence level confidence measure on translation output using a human-annotated corpus. We evaluate a variety of machine learning methods. The resultant measure, while trained on a very small dataset, correlates well with human judgments, and proves to be effective on one task …...

AbstractIn order to investigate the effect of source language on translations, we investigate two variants of a Korean translation corpus. The first variant consists of Korean translations of 162,308 Japanese sentences from the ATR BTEC (Basic Expression Text Corpus). The second variant was made by translating the English translations of …...

AbstractThis paper describes some important modifications to the Celex morphological database in the context of the FLaVoR project. FLaVoR aims to develop a novel modular framework for speech recognition, enabling the integration of complex linguistic knowledge sources, such as a morphological model. Morphology is a fairly unexploited linguistic information source …...

AbstractMetonymy is a creative process that establishes relationships based on contiguity or semantic relatedness between concepts. We outline a mechanism for deriving new concepts from WordNet using metonymy. We argue that by exploiting polysemy in WordNet we can take advantage of the metonymic relations between concepts. The focus of our …...

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to introduce an alternative word association measure aimed at addressing the under-extraction collocations that contain high frequency words. While measures such as MI provide the important contribution of filtering out sheer high frequency of words in the detection of collocations in large corpora, one …...

AbstractWe survey the evaluation methodology adopted in Information Extraction (IE), as defined in the MUC conferences and in later independent efforts applying machine learning to IE. We point out a number of problematic issues that may hamper the comparison between results obtained by different researchers. Some of them are common …...

AbstractThis paper reflects on the recently completed African Speech Technology (AST) Project. The AST Project successfully developed eleven annotated telephone speech databases for five languages spoken in South Africa i.e. Xhosa, Southern Sotho, Zulu, English and Afrikaans. These databases were used to train and test speech recognition systems applied in …...

AbstractStyle guides or writing recommendations play an important role in the field of technical documentation production, e.g. in industrial contexts. Also, writing recommendations are used in technical contexts together with machine translation (MT) in order to circumvent the MT system's weaknesses. This paper describes the evaluation and adaptation of a …...

AbstractThis paper presents a simple method for performing a lexical analysis of agglutinative languages like Korean, which have a heavy morphology. Especially, for nouns and adverbs with regular morphological modifications and/or high productivity, we do not need to artificially construct huge dictionaries of all inflected forms of lemmas. To construct …...

AbstractThis paper proposes a wide-range anaphora resolution system toward text understanding. This system resolves zero, direct and indirect anaphors in Japanese texts by integrating two sorts of linguistic resources: a hand-annotated corpus with various relations and automatically constructed case frames. The corpus has relevance tags which consist of predicate-argument relations, …...

AbstractThis paper reports on a number of experiments in which we applied standard techniques from NLP in the context of documentation of endangered languages. We concentrated on the use of existing, freely available toolkits. Specifically, we explore the use of Finite-State Morphological Analysis, Maximum Entropy Part-of-Speech Tagging, and N-Gram Language …...

AbstractWhen the relevance feedback, which is one of the most popular information retrieval model, is used in an information retrieval system, a related word is extracted based on the first retrival result. Then these words are added into the original query, and retrieval is performed again using updated query. Generally, …...

AbstractClusters of multiple news stories related to the same topic exhibit a number of interesting properties. For example, when documents have been published at various points in time or by different authors or news agencies, one finds many instances of paraphrasing, information overlap and even contradiction. The current paper presents …...

AbstractIn this paper we discuss the five requirements for building large publicly available corpora which geared the construction of the Lácio-Web corpora and their environments: 1) a comprehensive text typology; 2) text copyright clearance, compilation and annotation scheme; 3) a friendly and didactic interface; 4) the need to serve as …...

AbstractMulti-document summaries produced via sentence extraction often suffer from a number of cohesion problems, including dangling anaphora, sudden shifts in topic and incorrect or awkward chronological ordering. Therefore, the development of an automated revision process to correct such problems is a research area of current interest. We present the RevisionBank, …...