Draft. Comments weolcomed. Please do not cite or quote without prior consent. Revision 1.9 of August 15, 2005, 15:45:21, generated August 15, 2005. Increasingly, researchers developing statistical machine translation systems have moved to incorporate syntactic structure in the models that they induce. These researchers are motivated by the intuition that the limitations in the finite-state tran...

How do the two languages of bilingual individuals interact in everyday communication? Numerous behavioral- and event-related brain potential studies have suggested that information from the non-target language is spontaneously accessed when bilinguals read, listen, or speak in a given language. While this finding is consistent with predictions of current models of bilingual processing, most par...

In this paper we report on a method of evaluating spoken language translation systems that builds upon a task-based evaluation method developed by CMU, but rather than relying on a predefined database of Interchange Format representations of spoken utterances, instead relies on a set of explicitly defined conventions for creating these interlingual representations. Our method also departs from ...

Although quantifiers/classifiers expressions occur frequently in everyday communications or written documents, there is no description for them in classical bilingual paper dictionaries, nor in machine-readable dictionaries. The paper describes a corpus and dictionary development for quantifiers/classifiers, and their usage in the framework of French-Japanese machine translation (MT). They ofte...

Vera Danilova Abstract: This article represents a brief survey of the few works, dedicated to the modern approaches of natural language processing (NLP) to the analysis of impersonal sentences in Spanish. Such an analysis consists in classification of non-referential ellipsis that can be used in machine translation systems. The NLP approaches related with Spanish are mainly based on the work of...

The interlingual approach to MT has been repeatedly advocated by researchers originally interested Jn natural language understanding who take machine translation to be one possible application. However, not only the ambiguity but also the vagueness which every natural language inevitably has leads this approach into essential difficulties. In contrast, our project, the Mu-project, adopts the tr...

The results of a comparison between three different speech types — On-Talk, speaking to a computer, Off-Talk Self , speaking to oneself and Off-Talk Other, speaking to another person — uttered by subjects in a collaborative interlingual task mediated by an automatic speech-to-speech translation system, are reported here. The characteristics of the three speech types show significant differences...

We examined the time course of cross-language activation during word recognition in the context of semantic priming with interlingual homographs. Spanish-English bilinguals were presented pairs of English words visually one word at a time and judged whether the two words were related in meaning while recording event-related potentials. Interlingual homographs (e.g., "pie": "Pie" in Spanish is a...

To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...