second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

Misspelled words have a direct impact on the final quality obtained by Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems as the input becomes noisy and unpredictable. This paper presents some improvement strategies for translating real-life noisy input. The proposed strategies are based on a preprocessing step consisting in a character-based translator (MT) from noisy into cleaned text. The use of ...

Text prediction is a form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. In principle it can assist in the production of a target text with minimal disruption to a translator’s normal routine. However, recent evaluations of a prototype prediction system showed that it significantly decreased the productivity of most translators who used it. In this paper, we anal...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Chinese-to-English spoken language translation system. The system employs the multiple translation engines, and it consists of a template-based translator, a semantic parsing based translator (SPBT) and a statistic based translator (SBT) as well. SPBT uses the interchange format (IF) to represent the understanding results of input ut...

Machine translation is the process of translating text from one natural language to other using computers. The process requires extreme intelligence and experience like a human being that a machine usually lacks. Availability of machine translators for translation from English to Dravidian language, Malayalam is on the low. A few corpus-based and non-corpus based approaches have been tried in p...

We have developed a software framework that will support experiments to explore the role of translator resources and tools in the performance of translation and translation-related activities. This software environment brings together a wide range of resources and tools within a single work environment that has been instrumented to measure the actions of the translator. In this paper we present...

We discuss early results with Toucan, a sourceto-source translator that automatically restructures C/C++ MPI applications to overlap communication with computation. We co-designed the translator and runtime system to enable dynamic, dependence-driven execution of MPI applications, and require only a modest amount of programmer annotation. Co-design was essential to realizing overlap through dyn...

Although significant improvements have been achieved in statistical machine translation (SMT), even the best machine translation technology is far from competing with human translators. An alternative approach to obtain high quality translation is to use a human translator who is assisted by an SMT. In interactive-predictive computer-assisted translation (IPCAT) paradigm, the human translator b...

A mapping between the CIMsteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) and the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) product data models for structural steel has been developed. The development of the mapping takes a pragmatic approach through a manual inspection of both schemas to see which entities and attributes correspond to each other. In some cases there is a direct one-to-one mapping between CIS/2 and...

Despite skepticism concerning the latest buzz phrases about Web services, leading-edge companies have already begun deploying Web services that are giving them competitive advantages. Major platform vendors are now rolling out revolutionary tools aimed at simplifying the creation and deployment of Web services. Promising cheap, reliable, flexible, and scalable computing as well as quality web s...