In this paper we briefly sketch our work on text summarisation using compression graphs. The task is described as follows: Given a set of related sentences describing the same event, we aim at generating a single sentence that is simply structured, easily understandable, and minimal in terms of the number of words/tokens. Traditionally, sentence compression deals with finding the shortest path ...

Most statistical machine translation systems use phrase-to-phrase translations to capture local context information, leading to better lexical choice and more reliable local reordering. The quality of the phrase alignment is crucial to the quality of the resulting translations. Here, we propose a new phrase alignment method, not based on the Viterbi path of word alignment models. Phrase alignme...

The paper offers a new way of presenting the structure of a sentence. None of the two widely known methods of representation the syntactic structure of a sentence can be of any avail when applied to the Lithuanian language. Neither the tree, based on the phrase structure principle, nor the tree, suggested by the dependency grammar, do reflect all the syntactic information, which a Lithuanian se...

This paper investigates the prosodic relevance of a pause which, along with other prosodic parameters, served to indicate an Intonational Phrase (IPh) boundary. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while subjects listened to both intact and altered German Early and Late Closure (EC/LC) sentences. The EC sentences were prosodically highly accepted and well comprehended even when t...

In three experiments using a speeded grammaticality judgement task the question was investigated of what role morphological ambiguity plays for syntactic ambiguity resolution. The stimuli were German verb-final clauses which are locally ambiguous between a subject-object and an object-subject reading and where the ambiguity is not caused by phrase-structural differences but by differing case-as...

introduction iranian traditional cities represent a real symbol of stability and health. these conditions indicate that such urban planning design and program have been done thoughtfully and wisely. in these cities, the natural resources are used with minimal damage to existing endowments, and the highest efficiency is provided. but it often destroyed due to some people's ignorance and leg...

An increasing body of research provides evidence that socioeconomic status (SES) was significantly related to children's reading development; however, the psychological mechanism underlying the association between them remained an open question. The present study is designed to test the hypothesized three-path effect of vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness as mediators between SES a...