Statistical machine translation (SMT) requires a parallel corpus between the source and target languages. Although a pivot-translation approach can be applied to a language pair that does not have a parallel corpus directly between them, it requires both source–pivot and pivot–target parallel corpora. We propose a novel approach to apply SMT to a resource-limited source language that has no par...

While recent neural machine translation approaches have delivered state-of-the-art performance for resource-rich language pairs, they suffer from the data scarcity problem for resource-scarce language pairs. Although this problem can be alleviated by exploiting a pivot language to bridge the source and target languages, the source-to-pivot and pivot-to-target translation models are usually inde...

Monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems is notoriously di›cult; potential problems are complex, varied, and unpredictable. e de-factomonitoring and diagnosis tools at our disposal today – logs, counters, and metrics – have two important limitations: what gets recorded is dened a priori, and the information is recorded in a componentor machine-centric way, making it extremely hard to...

Current statistical machine translation systems heavily rely on the availability of parallel corpora between the language pair involved. The good quality parallel corpus is not always available. This creates a bottleneck. One solution to solve this bottleneck is to introduce third language, named pivot language for which there exist good quality source-pivot and pivot-target bilingual corpora.

When evaluating the fatigue life of a die cast A380 aluminum alloy, the combination of microstructures, inclusions, and stress concentrations is particularly important. This paper presents a failure analysis of an A380 die cast aluminum pivot arm used in a clothing press. This study includes finite element analyses, optical microscopy of the fracture surface, fatigue testing of the A380 aluminu...

We consider principal pivot transform (pivot) on graphs. We define a natural operation, called dual pivot, and show that both the kernel and the set of maximally applicable pivots of a graph is invariant under this operation. The result is motivated by and applicable to the theory of gene assembly in ciliates.

This work describes the advances on a micro-newton torsional thrust balance for ionic liquid electrospray thruster (ILET) being developed in National University of Defense Technology. The adopts an asymmetric pendulum arm about flexural pivot, and electrostatic comb device is used calibration, which makes compact allows measurement level with high accuracy. To minimize influence gravity results...

Similarity search refers to any searching problem which retrieves objects from a set that are close to a given query object as re ected by some similarity criterion. It has a vast number of applications in many branches of computer science, from pattern recognition to textual and multimedia information retrieval. In this thesis, we examine algorithms designed for similarity search over arbitrar...