In this paper we describe the Interactive Systems Laboratories (ISL) phrase-based machine translation system used in the shared task ”Machine Translation for European Languages” of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. We present results for a system combination of the ISL syntax-augmented MT system and the ISL phrase-based system by combining and rescoring the n-best lists ...

We present multi-scale tracking features for the In Silico Liver (ISL) and their simulation results. The features were developed to support tracking of dynamic pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) hepatic disposition phenomena that occur within an ISL during and after injection. Trackable components include molecules, enzymes, binders, cells, and features of tissue microarchitecture. Trackin...

For the translation of text and speech, statistical methods on one side and interlingua based methods on the other have been used successfully. However, the former requires programming grammars for each language, plus the design of an interlingua, while the latter requires the collection of a large parallel corpus for every language pair. To alleviate these problems, we propose an approach that...

This paper describes recent research carried out in the context of the FP6 Integrated Project CHIL in developing a system to automatically transcribe lectures and seminars. We made use of widely available corpora to train both the acoustic and language models, since only a small amount of CHIL data were available for system development. For acoustic model training made use of the transcribed po...

SUMMARY The potential costs and/or benefits associated with two epidemiological methods were compared. Using the same epide-miologic dataset (74 Israeli dairy herds tested for bovine paratuberculosis of which 57 farms were regarded to be infected, and 619 non-tested herds), the efficacy associated with the identification of the target population where control or preventive measures could be app...

The trend toward broadband communications in space is foreseeable, and its features predestine ATM as the basic mode of operation. Some of the low and medium earth orbit satellite concepts make use of intersatellite links (ISLs) to provide global connectivity with minimal usage of terrestrial fixed network resources. Interconnecting neighbouring satellites with ISLs results in a partially meshe...

Acquiring spoken language involves implicitly learning the statistical relations among language units. In this chapter, we review recent behavioral and neurophysiological findings from our research group that illuminate the relation of this type of ‘implicit statistical learning’ (ISL) to language acquisition. First, we review evidence illustrating that ISL mechanisms enable the learner to pred...

MOTIVATION For large-scale structural assignment to sequences, as in computational structural genomics, a fast yet sensitive sequence search procedure is essential. A new approach using intermediate sequences was tested as a shortcut to iterative multiple sequence search methods such as PSI-BLAST. RESULTS A library containing potential intermediate sequences for proteins of known structure (P...

There exists significant variation between sign language recognition processes across the world, although there are many similarities. Pre-processing, feature extraction and classification are the three major steps involved in the sign language recognition process. An analysis of scientific literature indicates the potential of various methods in achieving significantly high accuracy in image r...

The highly conserved internal stem-loop (ISL) of U6 spliceosomal RNA is unwound for U4/U6 complex formation during spliceosome assembly and reformed upon U4 release during spliceosome activation. The U6 ISL is structurally similar to Domain 5 of group II self-splicing introns, and contains a dynamic bulge that coordinates a Mg++ ion essential for the first catalytic step of splicing. We have an...