In this paper, we present some preliminary results on Statistical Machine Translation from Bulgarian-to-English and English-to-Bulgarian. Linguistic knowledge has been added gradually as factors in the MOSES system. The tests were performed on the QTLeap corpus data in IT domain for Pilot 1. The training was done on news parallel data as well as on IT domain data. The BLEU scores show that the ...

This paper presents a range of methods for classifying Dutch nouns as countable, uncountable or plural only based on both Dutch and English data. The classification is based on the occurrence of countability specific linguistic features that are extracted from unannotated corpora. We show that in the absence of reliable Dutch gold standard data, cross-linguistic classification can be achieved o...

Subproject 2 consisted of three sets of studies that focused on the transfer of language skills in Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). The first two sets of studies followed students across multiple years, examining the cross-linguistic, intra-linguistic and developmental factors that influence second language literacy development. The third set of studies was an intervention des...

We introduce a substantial update of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank, a parallel corpus manually annotated at the deep syntactic layer of linguistic representation. The English part consists of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) section of the Penn Treebank. The Czech part was translated from the English source sentence by sentence. This paper gives a high level overview of the underlyi...

We present a system for the linguistic exploration and analysis of lexical cohesion in English texts. Using an electronic thesaurus-like resource, Princeton WordNet, and the Brown Corpus of English, we have implemented a process of annotating text with lexical chains and a graphical user interface for inspection of the annotated text. We describe the system and report on some sample linguistic ...

Automated text analysis tools such as Coh-Metrix and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) provides overwhelming indices for text analysis, so fewer underlying dimensions are required. This paper developed an underlying component model for text analysis. The component model was developed from large English and Chinese corpora in terms of results from Coh-Metrix, and English and Chinese Lingu...

Using the already validated Coh-Metrix tool, this study examines whether there are significant linguistic and discourse differences between biomedical abstracts for American and Korean English. Also, the current study accounts for variation among journals’ countries of origin, distinguishing between biomedical journals published in the United States from biomedical journals published in South K...

This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers' linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity judgments. We investigated the effect of lan...

This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers’ linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity judgments. We investigated the effect of lan...

This book's central theme, as the author notes in the preface, is "dimensions of Celtic linguistic presence" as manifested in diverse sociolinguistic contexts. However, the concept of "linguistic presence" gives no coherence to this group of disjointed essays. In a traditional Celtic studies approach, the book covers both linguistic and literature topics. The linguistic topics include Celtic le...