Parallel corpora are indispensable resources for a variety of multilingual natural language processing tasks. This paper presents a technique for fully automatic construction of constantly growing parallel corpora. We propose a simple and effective dictionary-based algorithm to extract parallel document pairs from a large collection of articles retrieved from the Internet, potentially containin...

We present a domain-independent method for generation of natural language explanations of rules in expert systems. The method is based on explanatory rules written in a procedural formal language, which build the explanation from predefined natural language texts fragments. For better style, a specific text fragment is randomly selected from a group of synonymous expressions. We have implemente...

I was President in 1968, the year during which the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics became the Association for Computational Linguistics. Names always create controversy, and the founding name, selected in 1962, was chosen in competition with others, not the least of which was the one that subsequently replaced it. In fact, a change of name to the Association fo...

Here we describe a framework built upon Tesseract optical character recognition software for transcribing old texts having non-standard fonts. Further, we illustrate our software on creating a digital version of two volumes of a 17 century French text. The volumes consist of 808 pages having 84,366 words, and our system initially correctly transcribes 88% of the words. Further, we identify a me...

This article presents the design of a reliable, accurate, and easy to install solar dual axis tracking system. The system utilizes the GPS for fixing the time, date and location in terms of longitude and latitude. Approximations having high accuracy of the astronomical equations to represent the declination angle and the equation of time are selected to determine the sun locations needed by the...

BREF, a large read-speech corpus in French has been designed with several aims: to provide enough speech data to develop dictation machines, to provide data for evaluation of continuous speech recognition systems (both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent), and to provide a corpus of continuous speech to study phonological variations. This paper presents some of the design considerations o...

Reading texts or passages from textbooks are commonly used as learning materials in the Indonesian EFL context. This leads to emergence of readability reading level analyses for using conventional formulas which, unfortunately, were originally developed either English L1 L2 Moreover, there alternative that relatively newer yet still underused field. Hence, this current descriptive study aimed a...

The simplest game-theoretic representation of a principal-agent problem consists of a game with two players .the principal P and agent A. Assume that the principal selects an element dP from its decision set Dp in advance of the agent. The agent, after having perfectly observed which dp has been chosen, then selects an element from its own decision set DA. The following highly simplified exampl...

This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is and adopted for purpose analysis texts under study. The applying postcolonial appropriately contextualize text while analyzing it standpoint. To address impact xenophobia its link stratification, three...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...