This paper describes a detailed investigation into the use of Machine Translation techniques for query translation in English-Japanese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Experimental results are reported for the standard BMIR-J2 Japanese text retrieval collection extended to a CLIR task. Results indicate that retrieval performance increases as greater linguistic processing is used in ...

The importance of balancing linguistic considerations, annotation practicalities, and end user needs in developing language annotation guidelines is discussed. Maintaining a clear view of the various goals and fostering collaboration and feedback across levels of annotation and between corpus creators and corpus users is helpful in determining this balance. Annotating non-canonical language bri...

The Tactical Language Training System (TLTS) is a speech-enabled computer learning environment designed to teach Arabic spoken communication to American English speakers (and is described in a companion paper(Johnson et al, 2004)). This paper elaborates upon the modeling and detection of learner speech errors along multiple levels of linguistic details ranging from segmental to lexico-semantic ...

The paper presents an overview of the system build and experiments performed for the CLEF 2007 CL-SR track by the University of West Bohemia. We have concentrated on the monolingual experiments using the Czech collection only. The approach that was successfully employed by our team in the last year's campaign (simple tf.idf model with blind relevance feedback, accompanied with solid linguistic ...

Methods Cross-cultural translation was performed according to guidelines (Allergy 2010;65:290-295). Linguistic validation consisted in 3 steps: forward translation, backward translation and comprehensibility testing. Two independent translations were performed and a combined consensual version was obtained with an expert support. Subsequently, back-translation was performed and sent to the orig...

Hayes, Celina, "Examining interactions among working memory, aging, and linguistic constraints in sentence comprehension" (2007). Acknowledgements Many thanks to my advisor, Laura Gonnerman, and my committee members, Diane Hyland and Padraig O'Seaghdha for their valuable feedback and comments on this thesis. I would also like to thank the members of the Language Acquisition and Processing Lab f...

Along with the development of distributed EEG source modeling methods, basic approaches to local brain activity (LBA-) neurofeedback (NF) have been suggested. Meanwhile several attempts using LORETA and sLORETA have been published. This article specifically reports on "EEG-based LBA-feedback training" developed by Bauer et al. (2011). Local brain activity-feedback has the advantage over other s...

In this paper, we address the problem of extracting technical terms automatically from an unannotated corpus. We introduce a technology term tagger , that is based on Liblinear Support Vector Machines and employs linguistic features including Part of Speech tags and Dependency Structures, in addition to user feedback to perform the task of identification of technology related terms. Our experim...

The subject of our study is one type of "response" in dialogue, usually called acknowledgment or positive feedback. We show here how distinguishing between different acknowledgments is central to the establishment of information. The study is based on a french corpus of direction-giving dialogues which we have gathered. The factors that we investigate about the acknowledgments are their produce...

This study compared four ways of responding to EFL students in writing class to study whether they resulted in different outcomes in term of student‟s errors in writing. A total of 119 intermediate level students were selected as subjects, including students from three English reading and writing classes, and some voluntary participants. The students of three English reading and writing classes...