This paper describes a Multi-Engine based Chinese-toEnglish spoken language translation system. The design and implementation of the system is given in detail. Three different translation engines are employed in the system and a very simple way is proposed to select the best translation from all the outputs generated by them. The evaluation results from IWSLT2004 are reported and analyzed in de...

We show that it is possible to automatically detect machine translated text at sentence level from monolingual corpora, using text classification methods. We show further that the accuracy with which a learned classifier can detect text as machine translated is strongly correlated with the translation quality of the machine translation system that generated it. Finally, we offer a generic machi...

Our prototype automatic title generation system inspired by statistical machine-translation approaches [1] treats the document title like a translation of the document. Titles can be generated without extracting words from the document. A large corpus of documents with human-assigned titles is required for training title “translation” models. On an f1 evaluation score our approach outperformed ...

We describe an ongoing effort to collect and annotate very large corpora of user-contributed content in multiple languages for the DARPA BOLT program, which has among its goals the development of genre-independent machine translation and information retrieval systems. Initial work includes collection of several hundred million words of online discussion forum threads in English, Chinese and Egy...

introduction: the dysphagia handicap index (dhi) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient’s self-assessment. in some ways, it reflects the patient’s quality of life. although it has been recognized and widely applied in english speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in persian speaking countries. the purpose of this study was to adapt a persian v...

this study was conducted to identify and compare the strategies applied by two native farsi translators in rendering the culture specific items (csis) of a literary text titled savushun in their english translations. in this study, csis refer to the materials, social customs, religious concepts, and traditions available in one language and culture but nonexistent in the other language and cultu...