Thomson Legal and Regulatory participated in the monolingual, the bilingual and the multilingual tracks. Our monolingual runs added Swedish to the languages we had submitted in previous participations. Our bilingual and multilingual efforts used English as the query language. We experimented with dictionaries and similarity thesauri for the bilingual task, while we used machine translations in ...

Bilingual dictionary construction is a time-consuming job; therefore many studies have recently focused on automatically constructing bilingual dictionaries from bilingual texts. In this paper, we propose two novel approaches called dynamic window and tokenizer based on statistical machine transliteration model to efficiently extract English-Chinese transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. ...

Few studies provide insight into how California principals perceive Proposition 227 and its impact on bilingual education. The findings of a survey distributed to 100 randomly selected California principals with bilingual programs, indicate the law passed by California voters has not changed the perceptions of California principals towards bilingual education. It is now eight years since Propos...

This paper reviews research examining the effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive development, and in particular, executive function. Studies reporting bilingual advantages in various tasks are described with the purpose of identifying the process or executive function component that might be responsible for this bilingual advantage. Several possibilities are discussed, such as inhibitor...

In this paper, we exploit domain-specific comparable corpora to build bilingual terminologies. We present the monolingual term extraction and the bilingual alignment that will allow us to identify and translate high specialised terminology. We stress the huge importance of taking into account both simple and complex terms in a multilingual environment. Such linguistic diversity implies to combi...

We introduce bilingual word embeddings: semantic embeddings associated across two languages in the context of neural language models. We propose a method to learn bilingual embeddings from a large unlabeled corpus, while utilizing MT word alignments to constrain translational equivalence. The new embeddings significantly out-perform baselines in word semantic similarity. A single semantic simil...

Multiword expressions (MWEs) have been proved useful for many natural language processing tasks. However, how to use them to improve performance of statistical machine translation (SMT) is not well studied. This paper presents a simple yet effective strategy to extract domain bilingual multiword expressions. In addition, we implement three methods to integrate bilingual MWEs to Moses, the state...

This study investigated the similarities and differences in perception of Cantonese tones and English stress patterns by Cantonese-English bilingual children, adults, and English monolingual adults. All three groups were asked to discriminate pairs of syllables that minimally differed in either Cantonese tone or in English stress. Bilingual children's performance on tone perception was comparab...

The need for executive control (EC) during bilingual language processing is thought to enhance these abilities, conferring a "bilingual advantage" on EC tasks. Recently, the reliability and robustness of the bilingual advantage has been questioned, with many variables reportedly affecting the size and presence of the bilingual advantage. This study investigates one further variable that may aff...