in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

Construction of a recognizer in a new target language usually involves collection of a comprehensive database in that language as well as manual annotation and model training. For rapid development of new language recognizer, we propose (1) substituting target language phoneme models by source language phoneme models trained previously; and (2) adapting target language phoneme models from sourc...

In this paper, we study direct transfer methods for multilingual named entity recognition. Specifically, we extend the method recently proposed by Täckström et al. (2012), which is based on cross-lingual word cluster features. First, we show that by using multiple source languages, combined with self-training for target language adaptation, we can achieve significant improvements compared to us...

Algebraic compilers provide a powerful and convenient mechanism for specifying language translators. With each source language operation one associates a computation for constructing its target language image; these associated computations, called derived operations, are expressed in terms of operations from the target language. Sometimes the target language operations are not powerful enough t...

Algebraic compilers provide a powerful and convenient mechanism for specifying language translators. With each source language operation one associates a computation for constructing its target language image; these associated computations, called derived operations, are expressed in terms of operations from the target language. Sometimes the target language is not powerful enough to specify th...

In this paper we describe a machine translation prototype in which we use only minimal resources for both the source and the target language. A shallow source language analysis, combined with a translation dictionary and a mapping system of source language phenomena into the target language and a target language corpus for generation are all the resources needed in the described system. Several...

Training a POS tagging model with crosslingual transfer learning usually requires linguistic knowledge and resources about the relation between the source language and the target language. In this paper, we introduce a cross-lingual transfer learning model for POS tagging without ancillary resources such as parallel corpora. The proposed cross-lingual model utilizes a common BLSTM that enables ...