This article describes some of the features of a sophisticated language and environment designed for experimentation with unification-oriented linguistic descriptions. The system, called UD, has to date been used successfully as a development and prototyping tool in a research project on the application of situation schemata to the representation of real text, and in extensive experimentation i...

In this paper, we address the problem of mining named entity translation such as names of persons, organizations, and locations, from non parallel corpora. First, our study concentrates of different forms of named entity translation. Then, we introduce a new framework to extract all named entity translation types from a non parallel corpus. The proposed framework combines surface and linguistic...

After a brief description of the state of the art, this paper presents new methods of process-oriented translation training. The different instruments used in class, such as questionnaires and other tools, the learning outcome of these methods and the improvement of proficiency achieved by these means, constitute the core of the paper. The third and final part deals with the preliminary results...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in interest in semantically­informed natural language processing, including parsing into semantic representations, grounded language processing that connects linguistic structures to world representations, proposals to integrate compositional and distributional approaches to semantics, and approaches to semantically­sensitive tasks including sentiment ...

This paper presents a weak defense of rationalist approaches to Machine Translation (MT) based on the following line of reasoning. There is, independent of non-linguistic context, a one to many relationship between a source language text and the possible high quality target language translations of the text. This is due to the fact that there is a one to many relationship between a source langu...