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Recognizing Mandarin ba sentences as the Ba Resultative Construction, this study implements a rigid test of Ding's (1993) treatment of ba as a matrix verb in the periphrastic resultative construction. The computational experiment is facilitated with a formal rendition of the analysis of ba in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Moreover, …...

This paper proposes a novel approach in clustering texts automatically into coherent segments. A set of mutual linguistic constraints that largely determines the similarity of meaning among lexical items is used and a weight function is devised to incorporate the diversity of linguistic bonds among the text. A computational method …...

This study looks at language differences found in the conversations of two groups of Japanese women differentiated by their age. In particular it investigates differences in the strategic use of such aspects of speech as personal pronouns, adverbs, sentence-final particles, and fillers and words of habit. The use of repetition …...

Disjunctive expressions in Japanese coordinated with "ka" get either "or"-reading or "and"-reading depending on the situations in which the utterance takes place. This is comparable to some extent to the English counterparts with "or". In this paper, we will examine some cases where the same string of words gets different …...

The Phonetic and the Homophone Error problem in a language have been characterized as a symbol substitution problem. Phonetically equivalent symbols or symbol combinations in the language are grouped together. Each group or a number of related groups give(s) rise to a dictionary or a number of dictionaries. A new …...

We set out to empirically identify the range and frequency of basic verb alternation types in Japanese, through analysis of the Goi-Taikei Japanese pattern-based valency dictionary. This is achieved through comparison of the selectional preference annotation on corresponding case slots, based on the assumption that selectional preferences are preserved under …...

Language technology (LT) plays an increasingly important role in the field of multilingual information content production and knowledge management. Companies are more and more faced with the problem of the multilingual bottleneck, and are looking for new technologies which bring in productivity gains in the localisation and globalisation process. On …...

Advances in machine translation are becoming increasingly dependent on the availability of large scale language resources, in particular parallel corpora. The talk presents Slovene-English language resources that were developed as datasets for translation studies and machine learning programs. Three parallel datasets are introduced: the MULTEXT-East multilingual word-annotated corpus, the IJS-ELAN …...

Identifying textual associations from text corpora is a useful pre-processing step for many applications in Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we will present an innovative system that extracts relevant sequences of characters, words and part-of- speech tags from corpora. We will show that the combination of a new association …...

In many scientific, technological or political fields terminology and the production of up- to-date reference works is lagging behind, which causes problems to translators and results in inconsistent translations. Experience gained in various projects involving parallel corpora show that automatic extraction of terms and terminological collocations is an achievable goal, …...

AbstractWe describe a Machine Translation framework aimed at the rapid development of large scale robust machine translation systems for assimilation purposes, where the MT system is incorporated as one of the tools in an analyst’s workstation. The multilevel architecture of the system is designed to enable early delivery of functional …...

AbstractModality is an important, but complex linguistic phenomenon that concerns all levels of language production. NLP research has rather refrained from this subject, but we show that many errors in machine translation systems are directly related to the absence of a proper interlingual treatment of modality. We outline the traces …...

AbstractA new diagnostic system has been developed for an interactive template-structured intelligent language tutoring system (ILTS) for Japanese-English translation where an efficient heaviest common sequence (HCS) matching algorithm and a ‘part-of-speech tagged (POST) parser’ play a key role. This is implemented by exploiting the system template which consists of a …...

AbstractThis paper describes an ongoing project which has the goal of improving machine translation quality by increasing knowledge about the text to be translated. A basic piece of such knowledge is the domain or subject field of the text. When this is known, it is possible to improve meaning selection …...

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a camera system which translates Japanese texts in a scene. The system is portable and consists of four components: digital camera, character image extraction process, character recognition process, and translation process. The system extracts character strings from a region which a user specifies, and translates …...

AbstractThe paper presents a new development by Lingvistica ‘98 Inc.: the PG-PARS computer-assisted translation system and a series of professional bidirectional dictionaries. PG-PARS was designed as a Windows 95 and Windows 98 application to support English-Russian-English and English-Ukrainian-English dictionaries. PG-PARS dictionaries are all bidirectional, i.e. they include, for example, both …...

AbstractLogos 8, the next generation of the Logos Machine Translation (MT) system, is a client server application, which realizes the latest advances in system design and architecture. A multi-user, networkable application, Logos 8 allows Internet or Intranet use of its applications with client interfaces that communicate with dictionaries and translation …...

AbstractWe have developed an Internet translation service, which we began to provide in 1997 for English to Japanese translation and in 1998 for Japanese to English. In this service, users send a translation request from a web page and receive by e-mail the result of the translation outputted by Toshiba’s …...

AbstractIn an effort to reduce the subjectivity, cost, and complexity of evaluation methods for machine translation (MT) and other language technologies, task-based assessment is examined as an alternative to metrics-based in human judgments about MT, i.e., the previously applied adequacy, fluency, and informativeness measures. For task-based evaluation strategies to be …...

AbstractOne of the most important issues in the field of machine translation is evaluation of the translated sentences. This paper proposes a quantitative method of evaluation for machine translation systems. The method is as follows. First, an example sentence in Japanese is machine translated into English using several Japanese-English machine …...