We describe a method of correcting noisy output of a machine translation system. Our idea is to consider di erent phrases of a given sentence, and nd appropriate replacements of some of these from the frequently occurring similar phrases in the monolingual corpus. The frequent phrases in the monolingual corpus are indexed by a search engine. When looking for similar phrases we consider phrases ...

Introduction: An extensive body of literature deals with the complexity of providing integrated care to frail patients. However, theoretical fragmentation and a lack of substantial knowledge about success factors still abound. Aim: To identify environmental conditions and configurations of factors associated with service delivery success in integrated care initiatives. Theory and methods: Build...

In this paper we describe the development of an improved spelling checker for Afrikaans. We compare two currently available spelling checkers and discuss their shortcomings. The existing applications are restricted in their suggestion capabilities, as well as their precision and recall, mainly because they cannot treat morphologically complex words correctly. Here, we will mainly focus on impro...

In this study, we compared brain activation patterns in men and women during performance of a fine motor task, in order to investigate the influence of motor task complexity upon asymmetries of hemispheric recruitment. Thirty-three right-handed participants (17 males, 16 females) performed a self-paced finger-tapping task comprising three conditions of increasing complexity with both the domina...

We analyse pronunciations in American, British and South African English pronunciation dictionaries. Three analyses are perfomed. First the accuracy is determined with which decision tree based grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion can be applied to each accent. It is found that there is little difference between the accents in this regard. Secondly, pronunciations are compared by performing pai...

The study presented here relies on the integrated use of different kinds of knowledge in order to improve first-guess accuracy in non-word context-sensitive correction for general unrestricted texts. State of the art spelling correction systems, e.g. ispell, apart from detecting spelling errors, also assist the user by offering a set of candidate corrections that are close to the misspelled wor...

This study attempted to identify the acoustic deviations in the speech of Spanish-accented speakers of English and their influence on the native perception of accentedness. Recordings of eight multisyllabic target words spoken in sentences by 22 Spanish speakers of English and five native speakers of American English were analyzed for temporal acoustic differences. Acoustic deviations in Spanis...

Let me first consider the term “accident”. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it comes from the Latin word “accidens” and the French verb “accidere” both meaning to fall towards. The Dictionary provides two basic descriptions of the word. The first is that it is an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally. The second description is that it is an event that happen...

A potential determinant of people’s selective attention is offered by the structural-alignment view of comparison. This view holds that objects are compared via structured representations that align sets of features that share relational roles. A central claim of this account is that the comparison process directs attention towards alignable features. This prediction has been supported by offli...

In Germany, international and national comparative studies such as PISA or IGLU have shown that some 20% of school children do not reach the minimal competence level as defined by PISA literacy stages by the age of 15. Such a large number of students can no longer be supported by a single teacher in a classroom. The proposed submission demonstrates a web application that allows non-experts to i...