In this paper, we propose a nonparametric rank-based alternative to the least-squares independent component analysis algorithm developed. The basic idea is to estimate the squared-loss mutual information, which used as the objective function of the algorithm, based on its copula density version. Therefore, no marginal densities have to be estimated. We provide empirical evaluation of th...

We describe the development of a prototype of an open source rule-based Icelandic→English MT system, based on the Apertium MT framework and IceNLP, a natural language processing toolkit for Icelandic. Our system, Apertium-IceNLP, is the first system in which the whole morphological and tagging component of Apertium is replaced by modules from an external system. Evaluation shows that the word e...

We present the addition of a morphological generation component to an LFG-based Statistical Machine Translation System, taking advantage of existing morphological grammars and the FST (Finite State Transducer) processing pipeline of the XLE system. The extended syntax-driven translation system takes separate stochastic decisions for lemmata and morphological tags; the role of finite-state morph...

In METAL, morphological analysis is a recursive process of lookup and segmentation that scans input words from left to right in search of their component parts. This results in a set of possible interpretations which correspond t o acceptable sequences of morphemes recognized in the word (3). Words (or parts of complex words) which are not in the dictionary will be assigned the category UNK (fo...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The genetic and morphological variation in the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu, Arecaceae) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) was investigated. METHODS Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) was used to investigate the genetic structure of 76 accessions of M. sagu, collected in seven wild and semi-wild stands in PNG. KEY RESULTS An analysis of ten quantitative morphological var...