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This paper considers three assumptions conventionally made about signatures in typed feature logic that are in po- tential disagreement with current prac- tice among grammar developers and linguists working within feature-based frameworks such as HPSG: meet-semi- latticehood, unique feature introduc- tion, and the absence of subtype cover- ing. It also …...

We describe a biographical multi- document summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic knowledge to select and merge descriptions of people from a document collection, removing redundant descriptions. The summarization components have been extensively evaluated for coherence, accuracy, and …...

Knowledge acquisition is a bottleneck in machine translation and many NLP tasks. A method for automatically acquiring translation templates from bilingual corpora is proposed in this paper. Bilingual sentence pairs are first aligned in syntactic structure by combining a language parsing with a statistical bilingual language model. The alignment results …...

Fusion and clustering are two approaches to improving the effectiveness of information retrieval. In fusion, ranked lists are combined together by various means. The motivation is that different IR systems will complement each other, because they usually emphasize different query features when determining relevance and retrieve different sets of documents. …...

AbstractPre-processing of bilingual corpora plays an important role in Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) and Statistical-Based Machine Translation (SBMT). For our Mandarin-English EBMT system, pre-processing includes segmentation for Mandarin, bracketing for English and building a statistical dictionary from the corpora. We used the Mandarin segmenter from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). …...

AbstractEvaluation of machine translation is one of the most important issues in this field. We have already proposed a quantitative evaluation of machine translation system. The method was roughly that an example sentence in Japanese is machine translated into English, and then into Japanese using several systems, and that the …...

AbstractAn automatic translation quality evaluation method is proposed. In the proposed method, a parallel corpus is used to query translation answer candidates. The translation output is evaluated by measuring the similarity between the translation output and translation answer candidates with DP matching. This method evaluates a language translation subsystem of …...

AbstractThe reliable detection of sentence boundaries in running text is one of the first important steps in preparing an input document for translation. Although this is often neglected, it is necessary to obtain a translation with a high degree of quality. In this paper, we present a comparison of different …...

AbstractThis paper describes a tool designed to assess the machine translatability of English source texts by assigning a translatability index to both individual sentences and the text as a whole. The tool is designed to be both stand-alone and integratable into a suite of other tools which together help to …...

AbstractA new system for statistical natural language translation for languages with similar grammar is introduced. Specifically, it can be used with Romanic Languages, such as French, Spanish or Catalan. The statistical translation uses two sources of information: a language model and a translation model. The language model used is a …...

AbstractIn this paper, we would like to present an approach to construct a huge Bilingual Knowledge Bank (BKB) from an English Malay bilingual dictionary based on the idea of synchronous Structured String-Tree Correspondence (SSTC). The SSTC is a general structure that can associate an arbitrary tree structure to string in …...

AbstractThe main goal of the present paper is to propose new schemes for the overall evaluation of a speech translation system. These schemes are expected to support and improve the design of the target application system, and precisely determine its performance. Experiments are conducted on the Japanese-to-English speech translation system …...

AbstractThis paper describes how information technology is used by the Translation Department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Madrid to optimise translation processes. It commences by describing a mechanism for handling workflow via the corporate network, designed to maximise speed and efficiency in translation requests and also to function as an automated record …...

AbstractTranslation memory systems (TMS) are a family of computer tools whose purpose is to facilitate and encourage the re-use of existing translations. By searching a database of past translations, these systems can retrieve the translation of whole segments of text and propose them to the translator for re-use. However, the …...

AbstractThis paper describes a comprehensive translation environment build on the Internet. This environment is designed not only to translate web pages but also to support translation work on the web. We first introduce a basic idea and implementation of this environment and then compare it to conventional machine translation (MT) …...

AbstractIn this article we present the concept of “implicit transfer” rules. We will show that they represent a valid compromise between huge direct transfer terminology lists and large sets of transfer rules, which are very complex to maintain. We present a concrete, real-life application of this concept in a customization …...

AbstractIn this paper, we present the design of the new generation Systran translation systems, currently utilized in the development of English-Hungarian, English-Polish, English-Arabic, French-Arabic, Hungarian-French and Polish-French language pairs. The new design, based on the traditional Systran machine translation expertise and the existing linguistic resources, addresses the following aspects: efficiency, …...

LaTaT is a Language and Text Analysis Toolset. This paper gives a brief description of the components comprising LaTaT, including a Minimalist parser and language and concept learning programs. 1....

This paper describes an evaluation of an existing technique that locates sentences containing descriptions of a query word or phrase. The experiments expand on previous tests by exploring the effectiveness of the system when searching from a much larger document collection. The results showed the system working significantly better than …...

The purpose of this research is to test the efficacy of applying automated evaluation techniques, originally devised for the evaluation of human language learners, to the output of machine translation (MT) systems. We believe that these evaluation techniques will provide information about both the human language learning process, the translation …...