... the paraphraser to generate questions. I • INTRO~ION In a natural language interface to a database query system, a paraphraser can be used to ensure that the system has correctly understood ... respond in English. The use of English to paraphrase queries creates several problems. The first is that natural language is inherently ambiguous. A paraphrase must clarify the system& apos ;s ... and new information in formulating a paraphrase that differs ina meaningful way from the user&apos ;s question. A description is also given of the transformational grammar used by the paraphraser...
... lines of DCG. Its coverage is wider than the existing systems: both Gapping, RNR and RC, as well as ordinary cases of coordinate sentences, are taken into consideration. The work is a major ... DEALING WITH CONJUNCTIONS IN AMACHINETRANSLATION ENVIRONMENT Xiumlng HUANG Institute of Linguistics Chinese Academy of Social Sciences BeiJing, China* ABSTRACT The paper presents an algorithm, ... (Huang 83)&apos ;s CASSEX package, which in turn was based on (Boguraev 79)&apos ;s work, asystem for resolving linguistic ambiguities which combined ATN grammars (Woods 73) and Preference Semantics...
... Abstract Purpose: We assess the prevalence of overactive bladder (OAB) a n d i t s r i s k f actors i n a m a l e urologic veterans population. Materials and Methods: Validated self-administered ... questionnaire also included medical and surgical history, demographic data, BMI, medications and visit diagnosis. OAB-V8 total score that was equal to or greater than 6 for men was defined as ... presented as odds ratio and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 10. Statistical analyses were performed using Stata 8.2 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). RESULTS Among the male patients, 1086...
... methylated DNAwere: 5¢-AAGTAGGCGGAGTATCGAAC-3¢ (sense) and 5¢-GAAAAAACGCGATCCTACTT-3¢ (antisense). Primersfor unmethylated DNA were: 5¢-GAAGTAGGTGGAGTATTGAAT-3¢ (sense) and 5¢-CAAAAAAACACAATCCTACTT-3¢ ... 5¢-CAAAAAAACACAATCCTACTT-3¢ (antisense).Caspase 3 activityCells subjected to the caspase assay were seeded on a 24-well plate and transfected with FuGENE 6. The caspaseassay was performed using the CaspACE colorimetric ... RG,Macias-Silva M, Torres-Marquez ME, Garcia-Sainz JA& Cereijido M (1991) Assembly and sealing of tightjunctions: possible participation of G-proteins, phos-pholipase C, protein kinase C and...
... Charniak, K. Knight and K. Yamada. 2003. Syntax-based language models for statistical machine transla-tion. MT Summit IX., Intl. Assoc. for Machine Trans-lation.C. Chelba and F. Jelinek. ... latent semantic class variables.Thus, latent semantic class variables function as bot-tleneck variables to constrain word occurrences in documents.When combining n-gram, m order SLM and PLSA ... softwarehttp://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/englishparsing.aspxF. Och. 2003. Minimum error rate training in statisti-cal machine translation. The 41th Annual meeting ofthe Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),311-318.K....
... intentionvia DA detection is an important task in SDS.Figure 1 depicts the training and test phases ofthe SLU module and the DM module in our system. The dataflow for training and testing are indicatedby ... wfst-based dialog system. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pages 268–271.C. Hori, K. Ohtake, T. Misu, H. Kashioka, and S. Naka-mura. 2009b. Statistical dialog management appliedto wfst-based dialog systems. ... finite state transducer basedstatistical dialog management. In Proc. ASRU.D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin. 2009. Speech and Lan-guage Processing, 2nd Edition. Pearson Education.R. J. Larsen and...
... modal verbs and adverbs, auxiliaries and semi-auxiliaries, at least in the languages Rosetta deals with (Dutch, English and Spanish). Intranslation systems dealing with Japanese and English ... possible that such phr~es and clauses are translations of each other, the subgrammars involved are attuned as far as possible, resulting in 'isomorphic' subgrammars within one grammar. ... in terms of rule subclasses instead of rules. 125 Subgrammars, Rule Classes and Control in the Rosetta TranslationSystem * Lisette Appelo Carel Fellinger Jan Landsbergen Philips Research...
... turfs, crustose coralline algae,fleshy and filamentous macroalgae, and sponges.Crustose coralline algae, fine algal turfs (filaments <2 cm tall and so sparse that the substratum is visible), and ... University of South Alabama ResearchCouncil, and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), and by grants toR.B. Aronson and K.H. Koltes from the Smithsonian Institution s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems ... expressed as percent covers of the varioussubstrate components for graphical representation and as propor-tional covers for statistical analysis. Repeated-measures analysis ofvariance (ANOVA)...
... contain a KHdomain. RNA analysis and blast analysis indicatedthat homologs and orthologs of VBARP exist, indica-ting the presence of VBARP in diverse phyla such asplants, yeast, and eukaryotes. ... theVBARP RNA synthesis in tested cell lines and thissiRNA was used in subsequent assays. Followingtransfection of VBARP siRNA into HeLa and NT2cells, physical observation revealed that cell deathoccurred ... involved in VBARP-mediated cellsurvivalCaspases, a family of cysteine acid proteases, are cen-tral regulators of apoptosis [12,13]. Caspases are rou-tinely used as a measure of apoptosis, in contrast...
... cells. Wepropose that calpain 1 interacts ina resting state withcytoskeletal targets, and that this binding is strengthened in pathological conditions, such as ischaemia and dystro-phies, associated ... displays two EF-hand motifs in the C-terminaldomain [24], presents low PEST scores after analysis, and several isoforms are calpain substrates [16,25–27]. Our studyof calpain 1 a- actinin interaction ... skeletal muscle a- actinin; asm, smooth muscle a- actinin;Calp1,calpain1(l-calpain); Calp2, calpain 2 (m-calpain);CaM, calmodulin; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay;FITC, fluorescein 5-isothiocyanate;...
... statis-tical machine translation. In Proc. ACL, pages 160–167.D. Ortiz, I. Garc´ a- Varea, and F. Casacuberta. 2005.Thot: a toolkit to train phrase-based statistical trans-lation models. ... with Sentence CMs In the conventional IMT scenario a human trans-lator anda SMT system collaborate in order toobtain the translation the user has in mind. Oncethe user has interactively translated ... classifi-cation threshold, we can range from a fully auto-matic SMT system where all sentences are clas-sified as correct to a conventional IMT system where all sentences are classified as incorrect.2.1...
... Philadelphia, Pennsylva-nia, USA, July.Matt Post and Daniel Gildea. 2008. Parsers as languagemodels for statistical machine translation. In Proceed-ings of AMTA.Sylvain Raybaud, Caroline Lavecchia, ... models for statistical machine translation. In Proceedings of MT Summit IX.Intl. Assoc. for Machine Translation. David Chiang. 2007. Hierarchical phrase-based transla-tion. Computational Linguistics, ... Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 210–218, Singa-pore, August. Association for Computational Linguis-tics.Franz Josef Och. 2003. Minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation. ...
... human translator can start translating phrases as he receives them one at a time and can apply partial syntax- transfer rules as soon as he notices a phrase sequence which is ungrammatical ... understanding the text. INSTRA assumes that the user is monolingual. Because the method refrains from using inferences in unnecessary cases, the semantic and pragmatic information contained in ... reference, INSTRA receives an object frame, the chain is searched backwards for a match, and its unique name and information about its number are returned. INSTRA uses a set of rules that takes into...