JANUS is a multi-lingual speech-tospeech translation system designed to facilitate communication between two parties engaged in a spontaneous conversation in a limited domain. In an attempt to achieve both robustness and translation accuracy we use two di erent translation components: the GLR module, designed to be more accurate, and the Phoenix module, designed to be more robust. We analyze th...

We describe an approach to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance using multi-lingual, parallel, sentence-aligned corpora in several bridge languages. Our approach consists of a simple method for utilizing a bridge language to create a word alignment system and a procedure for combining word alignment systems from multiple bridge languages. The final translation is obtained b...

Introduction: The Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25) is an effective, reliable, and ergonomic tool that can be used for depression diagnosis monitoring in daily practice. To allow its broad use by family practice physicians (FPs), it was translated from English into nine European languages (Greek, Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Galician, Spanish, Italian, French) the translation homo...

In this work, a new search procedure for statistical machine translation (SMT) is proposed that is based on dynamic programming (DP). The starting point is a DP solution to the traveling salesman problem that works by jointly processing tours that visit the same subset of cities. For SMT, the cities correspond to source sentence positions to be translated. Imposing restrictions on the order in ...

A procedure is described for preparing cell-free protein synthesizing lysates from Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells and embryos. Preparation of translationally active lysates from tissue culture cells is dependent on the presence of rat liver supernatant during cell lysis to inhibit ribonuclease activity. After micrococcal nuclease treatment of the lysate, protein synthesis is depen...

In this paper, we introduce a search algorithm that provides a simple and efficient way to find n-best results of the decoder of the tree-to-string alignment template (TAT) translation model, which describes the alignment between a source parse tree and a target string. Our experiments show that the new decoding algorithm does not only improve the oracle BLEU but also allow minimum error rate t...

Definition: a means for proving for a given compiler (or any program translation procedure) for a high level language H and a low level language L that a program written in H is successfully translated to L Motivation is desire to prove that optimizations performed during the translation process are correct 1. Often, optimizations are heuristics 2. Optimizations could be performed by simply pee...

This empirical study takes a cognitive perspective and examines the translation of metaphors in speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping as collected first volume book The Governance China published 2014. draws upon Lakoff Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory Newmark's categories procedure for metaphors. researchers' data analysis has shown that (1) four out eight existing procedures are employ...

Background: The comfort questionnaire for hand tools (CQH) is a subjective measure for exploring the starting points for improving hand tool design. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the CQH.  Methods: In this cross-sectional study, which was conducted among 163 university students, the 17-question CQH was translated into Farsi with a translat...

In this article we describe HiFST, a lattice-based decoder for hierarchical phrase-based translation and alignment. The decoder is implemented with standard Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) operations as an alternative to the well-known cube pruning procedure. We find that the use of WFSTs rather than k-best lists requires less pruning in translation search, resulting in fewer search err...