... studying parallel texts, texts such as the Canadian Hansards (parliamentary proceedings) which are available in multiple languages (French and English). This paper describes a method foraligning ... de la 800 per cent in one week through % ca une semaine ~ cause d' ut~ bank/banc ("place" sense) bank of canada have fwxluanfly bcaque du canada ont fr&lnemm bank action. ... mean sentence length. We obtain ff(m)lm ratios of 0.22 for characters and 0.33 for words, indicating that characters are less noisy than words, and are therefore more suitable for use in align....
... give an account of a computer pro- gram for the translation of natural languages. The program has the following features: (1) it is adaptable to the translation of any two natural languages, ... deserves the name of a language trans- lation program has to be aprogram which is capable of expansion, in a regular manner, to keep up with the demands that are made on it. Essentially, what one ... program, or a trans- lation program embodied in a machine? Perhaps we should first examine the question of what we mean by a translation program. The idea of a computer program abstracted...
... employed a normal form trans- duction grammar, so a! = 0 for all f # 2. The A- productions used were: A ~-* AA A b(&~) z/v A b~O x/e A ~%~) e/V for all z, y lexical translations for all ... McKEoWN. 1994. Aligning noisy parallel corpora across language groups: Word pair feature matching by dynamic time warping. In AMTA- 94, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 81-88, ... parsing. 2 Inversion-Invariant Transduction Grammars A Wansduction grammar is a bilingual model that gen- erates two output streams, one for each language. The usual view of transducers as...
... it are so familiar to us. We’ve been eating bread,potatoes, and rice all our lives, as have our parents and grand-parents. Indeed, many people can get away with eating largeamounts of starch ... to eat moreof another. Indeed, Americans are now eating more carbohy-drates—plant-based foods. The biggest change in the Americandiet in the last thirty years has been a dramatic increase ... ingredient of bread, potatoes, and rice and is morecommonly known as starch.Bread, Potatoes, and Rice: How “Natural” Are They?Starch is, in fact, the same tasteless paste laundries use for stiff-ening...
... Confidence Bands forParallelTexts AlignmentAntónio RIBEIRODepartamento de InformáticaFaculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade Nova de LisboaQuinta da TorreP-2825-114 Monte da CaparicaPortugalambar@di.fct.unl.ptGabriel ... MEXIADepartamento de MatemáticaFaculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade Nova de LisboaQuinta da TorreP-2825-114 Monte da CaparicaPortugalAbstractThis paper describes a language ... been two mainstreams for parallel text alignment. One assumes that translated texts have proportional sizes; the other tries to uselexical information in paralleltexts to generatecandidate correspondence...
... than simply a matter of style. A woman may dress in ''basic black" and other somber shades because her heart is always at a funeral – a clue to depression so obvious that it's ... provided a fine example of the kind of interdepartmental innovation that has made the Beth Israel Hospital an international center for both research and outstanding patient care. The late Selma Freiberg ... an organ, as physical as your heart or liver, and a rash is as physical as a heart attack, but the skin is also an exquisitely sensitive responder to emotions. Just as stress makes your heart...
... location holding more parallel data. This ap-proach is based on our observation that parallel pages share similar structures holding parallel content, and parallel hyperlinks refer to new par-allel ... Asso-ciation for Machine Translation in the Americas. Gale W. A. and K. Church. 1991. AProgramfor Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora. In Pro-ceedings of 29th Annual Meeting of the Association ... 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Compu-tational Linguistics. Church, K. W. 1993. Char_align: AProgramfor Aligning ParallelTexts at the Character Level. In 4954.1 DOM Tree Alignment...
... The parallel text alignment approach works well for nature and sense, among these nouns. For nature, the parallel text alignment approach gives better accuracy, and for sense the accuracy ... chose the same number of training ex-amples for each sense as the official training data so that we can do a fair comparison between the accuracy of the parallel text alignment approach versus ... Linguistics, pages 343-351. I. Dan Melamed. 2001. Empirical Methods for Exploit-ing Parallel Texts. MIT Press, Cambridge. Rada F. Mihalcea and Dan I. Moldovan. 2001. Pattern learning and active feature...
... hypotheses" are the hypothe- ses left after all the filters are applied for all anaphor. 160 A LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT ANAPHORA RES()LUTION SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING MULTILINGUAL TEXTS Chinatsu Aone and ... we evaluate the dis- course performance over new texts, using blackbox evaluation (e.g. scoring the results of a data extrac- tion task.) To calculate a generator's failure vale, a filter's ... performance is evaluated and trained using discourse- tagged corpora. Finally, we compare our approach to other research. 1 Our system has been used in several data extraction tasks and a...
... especially those in thenarrative domain. Users can create for- mal propositions to represent spans of text,as well as temporal relations and otheraspects of narrative. A built-in natural-language ... is that a modelwith a wider scope is more challenging for anno-tators. For example, part-of-speech tagging is aneasier task than PropBank annotation. We believethat careful user interface ... (equivalent toFigure 2) as configured fora particular Aesopfable.3. The procedure for reading a text for impor-tant named entities, and formally declaringthese named entities for the story graph.4....
... aboutreproductive health matters based on literature review.The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a lan-guage familiar to most Tanzanians. Data was gatheredby an anonymous questionnaire.The ... of a reproductive health awareness program for adolescence in urban Tanzania -A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test researchFrida Madeni†, Shigeko Horiuchi*†and Mariko Iida†AbstractBackground: ... evaluation of a school-based adolescent sexualheath intervention in rural Tanzania: MEMA kwa Vijana programme.Health Educ Res 2006, 22:500-512.18. Todd J, Changalucha J, Ross D, Mosha F, Obasi...
... youth-oriented health educationprograms and a participatory, hands-on health fair. Thehealth fair was intended to be an engaging strategy to meet a community’s needs related to health promotion, educa-tion, ... Task Force recommendation of a professionalmandate to proactively provide the highest quality care for all.AKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis project was funded through the Omaha UrbanArea Health Education ... of/beliefs about pharmacists before andafter participation in a health fair and interaction withpharmacy students.Figure 2. Elementary school students’ perceptions of/beliefsabout health careers after...
... Health, Allahabad (ASRHA), worked with 66,000 adolescent boys and girls ages 10-19 and about 45,000 women ages 20-49 in 143 slum areas of Allahabad. The Population Council’s OR study began ... counseling and training, savings formation activities, and follow-up support to an ongoing reproductive health programfor adolescents. CARE India began a pilot project in 1997 in 65 slum areas of Allahabad, ... (FRONTIERS) and Policy Research Division, in collaboration with CARE India, conducted an operations research (OR) study in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh to examine the feasibility and impact of adding...
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