It is often assumed that raw MT output requires post-editing if it is to be used for more than gisting purposes. However, we know little about how end users engage with raw machine translated text or postedited text, or how usable this text is, in particular if users have to follow instructions and act on them. The research project described here measures the usability of raw machine translated...

This paper describes recent improvements to our singing voice synthesizer based on concatenation and transformation of audio samples using spectral models. Improvements include firstly robust automation of previous singer database creation process, a lengthy and tedious task which involved recording scripts generation, studio sessions, audio editing, spectral analysis, and phonetic based segmen...

Editing metadata for documents in a large collection is a long and menial task. Many metadata schemas exist, among which, of course, Dublin Core, and they are usually only partially compatible to each other. Adopting any of these schemas often requires adopting specific tools for the insertion and editing of metadata that are rigid, do not allow for customization and specialization for the orga...

A new generation of knowledge/databases is emerging. These systems contain thousands of objects, densely interconnected and heterogeneously organized, entered from many sources, both human and automated. Such systems present tremendous challenges to their users, who must locate relevant information quickly and add new information effectively. Our research aims to understand and support the know...

Realistic image manipulation is challenging because it requires modifying the image appearance in a user-controlled way, while preserving the realism of the result. Unless the user has considerable artistic skill, it is easy to “fall off” the manifold of natural images while editing. In this paper, we propose to learn the natural image manifold directly from data using a generative adversarial ...

The selective excitation of metabolite signals in vivo requires the use of specially adapted pulse techniques, in particular when the signals are weak and the resonances overlap with those of unwanted molecules. Several pulse sequences have been proposed for this spectral editing task. However, their performance is strongly degraded by unavoidable experimental imperfections. Here, we show that ...

Implementing large and sweeping changes to software source code can be tedious and error-prone. A conceptually simple change can require a significant code editing effort. Any source code modification can be viewed as a transformation of one program into another. Integrating scriptable sourceto-source program transformations into development environments can assist developers with many repetiti...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the MATE workbench, a program which provides support for the annotation of speech and text. It provides facilities for flexible display and editing of such annotations, and complex querying of a resulting corpus. The workbench offers a more flexible approach than most existing annotation tools, which were often designed with a specific annot...

Euler diagrams form the basis of a number of visual languages. However, the existing tool support for creating Euler diagrams is limited to generic diagram editing software that uses mouse and keyboard interfaces. A more natural and convenient mode of entry is via a sketching interface. In addition, it is known that sketching, as opposed to using an editing package, facilitates greater cognitiv...

As Machine Translation (MT) becomes more popular among end-users, an increasingly relevant issue is that of estimating the quality of automatic translations for a particular task. The main application for such quality estimates has been selecting good enough translations for human post-editing. The endusers, in this case, are fluent speakers of both source and target languages and the quality e...