Implementations of parallel dialects (or: coordination languages) on a functional base (or: computation) language always have to extend complex runtime environments by the even more complex parallelism to maintain a high level of abstraction. Starting from two parallel dialects of the purely functional language Haskell and their implementations, we generalise the characteristics of Haskell-base...

This paper investigates coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We offer an account for a typologically unusual pattern found this language. show that conjuncts coordinated structure NGT may violate constraint governing structures spoken languages, which we refer to as ‘Parallel Structure Constraint’. The violation consists asymmetric fronting second conjunct structure. argue Pa...

In data-driven machine translation, parallel corpora are an extremely important resource. For language pairs that involve English, there exist many freely available bilingual or multilingual parallel corpora, especially for European languages. To improve the translation quality for less-resourced language pairs, such as Chinese–Japanese, larger and larger aligned training data are needed. The c...

The parallel functional programming language Eden was specially designed to be implemented in a distributed setting. In a previous paper 3] we presented an operational speciication of DREAM, the distributed abstract machine for Eden. In this paper we go a step further and present the imperative code generated for Eden expressions and how this code interact with the distributed RunTime System (R...

Multiphysics and multiscale simulation systems are emerging as a new grand challenge in computational science, largely because of increased computing power provided by the distributed-memory parallel programming model on commodity clusters. These systems often present a parallel coupling problem in their intercomponent data exchanges. Another potential problem in these coupled systems is langua...

Array languages such as Fortran 90, High Performance Fortran and ZPL are convenient vehicles for expressing data parallel computation. Unfortunately, array language semantics prohibit the natural expression of wavefront and pipelined computations, characterized by a sequential propagation of computed values across one or more dimensions of the problem space. As a result, programmers scalarize (...

Recently, we have proposed a parallel sub-word recognition (PSWR) system for language identification (LID) in a framework similar to the parallel phone recognition (PPR) approach in the literature, but without requiring phonetic labeling of the speech data in any of the languages in the LID task. In this paper, we show the theoretical equivalence of PSWR and ergodicHMM (E-HMM) based LID. Here, ...

An ongoing trend in the creation of Machine Translation (MT) systems concerns the automatic extraction of information from large bilingual parallel corpora. As these corpora are expensive to create, the largest possible amount of information needs to be extracted in a consistent manner. The present article introduces a phrase alignment methodology for transferring structural information between...

English was the main focus of attention of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community for years. As a result, there are significantly more annotated linguistic resources in English than in any other language. Consequently, data-driven tools for automatic text or speech processing are developed mainly for English. Developing similar corpora and tools for other languages is an important issu...