In this research, we tackle the problem of domain adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation by exploiting domainspecific data acquired by domain-focused web-crawling. We design and empirically evaluate a procedure for automatic acquisition of both monolingual and parallel data and their exploitation for system training, tuning, and testing in a phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation f...

Explaining the effects of labial coarticulation is a difficult problem that gave rise to many studies and models. Most of the time small corpora were exploited to design these models. In this paper we describe the realization and exploitation of a corpus with ten speakers. This corpus enables the most invariant labial features (protrusion, stretching and lip opening) to be established. Then we ...

This article discusses how early twentieth-century France developed rustic modernization projects anchored in traditional regional practices. This entailed overcoming political and cultural fears associated with regional allegiances as well as developing regional cultural agendas susceptible to economic exploitation. The case study of how Burgundians marketed artisan workmanship, gastronomical ...

Young infants are sensitive to prosody, which they use to distinguish between speakers and between languages. Indeed, patterns of language discrimination have been interpreted as supporting a “rhythm class” typology, where the rhythmic nature of earliest language exposure determines the primary perceptual units of speech segmentation. In previous studies, five-month-old infants discriminated la...

the mines are an important section of national heritage and public domain. in legal aspect there are several theories about the mines such as; ownership; public domain and non-proper tier things. some of the islamic jurists believe mines are anfal and others say they are non-proper tier things. although the prohibition or restriction in exploitation of mine is useful because of fairly distribut...

This article discusses t,he selection of the domain for a knowledge-based expert system for a corporate application The selection of the domain is a critical task in an expert system development At the st,art of a project looking into the development of an expert, syst,em, the knowledge engineering project team must investigate one or several possible expert system domains They must decide whet...

Auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models have been widely used to calculate monthly time series data formed by interannual variations of monthly data or inter-monthly variation. However, the influence brought about by inter-monthly variations within each year is often ignored. An improved ARIMA model is developed in this study accounting for both the interannual and inter-monthl...