This paper discusses the performance of two data-driven translation methods for the translation of a very constrained sublanguage: dates. As a first result, we show that an example-based method is outperformed by a statistical method for the translation of dates from Chinese into English when small random training corpora are used: 750 random examples suffice to translate almost perfectly a cor...

The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...

The aim of the paper is to examine whether we can adapt Bent and van Hentenryck’s combination methods to our problem, and to determine how effective and significant the methods are. In particular, we develop four ways of applying Bent and Van Hentenryck’s consensus approach[3] to our problem. In addition, since we assume the uncertainty distribution is known, we propose a probabilistic sampling...