This paper presents the solution of the DFKI-team for the Multimedia Satellite Task at MediaEval 2017. In our approach, we strongly relied on deep neural networks. The results show that the fusion of visual and textual features extracted by deep networks can be effectively used to retrieve social multimedia reports which provide a directed evidence of flooding. Additionally, we extend existing ...

On 16 January 2004, the Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit (BSPHU) was notifi ed of an ABLV positive result on a black fl ying fox (Pteropus alecto). BSPHU investigations revealed that the bat was actually found on 2 January 2004, when the family pet, a 2-year-old desexed female Alsatian-Kelpie cross was observed barking at the bat on the ground and brought the bat to the owner’s attention. ...

This paper describes DFKI’s participation in the NEWS2011 shared task on machine transliteration. Our primary system participated in the evaluation for English-Chinese and Chinese-English language pairs. We extended the joint sourcechannel model on the transliteration task into a multi-to-multi joint source-channel model, which allows alignments between substrings of arbitrary lengths in both s...

In this paper I will try to explain the nature of document understanding in all of its dimensions. Therefore I will first describe the characteristics of data, knowledge, and information in order to describe their synergetic interweaving. After that I will try to structure the inherent complexity of sub-problems of document understanding which may not be solved serially, but rather are attribut...

to study the causes of difficulties in understanding the german short story bypersian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searchedthe factors of cohesion and coherence in german texts in a short story. then wehave checked its translations by the students and observed that these people arefamiliar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary ofth...

undoubtedly, curriculum planers, experts and researchersshould benefit from the latest scientific advances and achievements whendeveloping the curricula. overlooking this critical concept will lead to adecline in the educational system, and may cause irremediable damages to theprocess of education. this article primarily aims at briefly introducing theiranian universities that offer german lang...

Research in the field of automatic analysis of language and machine translation has a long tradition at the University of Saarbrücken. In the late 1950s, a first attempt was made at the Institute of Applied Mathematics to develop a system for the automatic translation of Latin sentences (taken from a secondary school textbook) into German. In the early 1960s, a small group of researchers and st...

We participated in the ACL WMT 2009 shared task for translation of German to English, and English to German. We used the Moses open source system, combined with morphological processing. For German to English, we had the only constraint system comparable with the open-data systems. One of the reasons the system performed well was strong reduction of the German vocabulary, through a simplistic c...

in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological ana...