This paper reports on the evaluation of a system that allows the use of spoken queries to retrieve information from a textual document collection. First, a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer transcribes the spoken query into text. Then, an information retrieval engine retrieves the documents relevant to that query. The system works for Spanish language. In order to increase performan...

Litt le is known about the acquisition of another language modality on second language (L2) working memory (WM) capacity. Diff erential indexing within the WM system based on language modality may explain diff erences in performance on WM tasks in sign and spoken language. We investigated the eff ect of language modality (sign versus spoken) on L2 WM capacity. Results indicated reduced L2 WM sp...

This paper describes recent work on the Unisys ATIS Spoken Language System, and reports benchmark results on natural language, spoken language, and speech recognition. We describe enhancements to the system's semantic processing for handling non.transparent argument structure and enhancements to the system's pragmatic processing of material in art. swers displayed to the user. We found that the...

the present paper is the result of the surveys done on the translation of the robaiyyat-e hakim omar khayyam sera'iki language. these translations that are mostly done on the basis of valid and authentic texts both in the persian and english languages, can be divided into two categories: i. translation into prose of the robaiyyat ii. translation into verse of the robaiyyat together with ex...

This session on corpora and evaluation was composed of two distinct parts. Before the break, four papers dealing with a range of important aspects of evaluation of written language systems and spoken language systems were presented. A printed version of each of these papers is included in the conference proceedings. After the break, a series of informal reports (not included as proceedings pape...