To date, construction of interlingual resources continues to be a labor-intensive process—often resulting in knowledge-based systems that suffer from a lack of robustness. Such systems may work well on certain types of phenomena, but their complex knowledge-based foundation makes them difficult to extend to new phenomena or languages. We adopt the view that it is possible to approximate the dep...

In this paper, we present an ongoing research project focused on the building, processing and exploitation of a multimedia parallel corpus of English-Galician film subtitling, showing the TMXbased XML specification designed to encode both audiovisual features and translation alignments in the corpus, and the solutions adopted for making the data available over the web in multimedia format. 1998...

We used the visual world paradigm to examine interlingual lexical competition when Dutch-English bilinguals listened to low-constraining sentences in their nonnative (L2; Experiment 1) and native (L1; Experiment 2) languages. Additionally, we investigated the influence of the degree of cross-lingual phonological similarity. When listening in L2, participants fixated more on competitor pictures ...

MT systems that use only superficial representations, including the current generation of statistical MT systems, have been successful and useful. However, they will experience a plateau in quality, much like other “silver bullet” approaches to MT. We pursue work on the development of interlingual representations for use in symbolic or hybrid MT systems. In this paper, we describe the creation ...

The project started in 1982 with a Feasibility Study funded by the Commission of the European Community (Hutchins, 1986, pp. 287 291). Since 1984, the government of the Netherlands and BSO each support 50 % of the project. Annual budget averaged around 1 million dollar for the last three years, and still 5 million has been reserved for 1988-1991. Commercialization is not expected to begin befor...

Speaking as an initial goal in language teaching and learning has relationships with many variables including listening, reading, writing, knowledge of vocabulary as well as grammar. The present study mainly aims at examining the relationship between translations and speaking fluency. For this purpose and following an experimental design, three groups of Iranian advanced EFL learners were...