We report experiments on automatic learning of an English-Chinese translation lexicon, through statistical training on a large parallel corpus. The learned vocabulary size is nontrivial at 6,517 English words averaging 2.33 Chinese translations per entry, with a manuallyfiltered precision of 95.1% and a single-most-probable precision of 91.2%. We then introduce a significance filtering method t...

We report experiments on automatic learning of an English-Chinese translation lexicon, through statistical training on a large parallel corpus. The learned vocabulary size is non-trivial at 6,517 English words averaging 2.33 Chinese translations per entry, with a manually-ltered precision of 95.1% and a single-most-probable precision of 91.2%. We then introduce a signiicance ltering method that...

A Markov chain analysis of a network generated by the matrix of lexical distances allows for representing complex relationships between different languages in a language family geometrically, in terms of distances and angles. The fully automated method for construction of language taxonomy is tested on a sample of fifty languages of the Indo-European language group and applied to a sample of fi...

In our participation in this evaluation campaign, our first objective was to analyze retrieval effectiveness when using The European Library (TEL) corpora composed of very short descriptions (library catalog records) and also to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of several IR models. As a second objective we wanted to design and evaluate a stopword list and a light stemming strategy for the ...

Explanations for the emergence of monogamous marriage have focused on the cross-cultural distribution of marriage strategies, thus failing to account for their history. In this paper I reconstruct the pattern of change in marriage strategies in the history of societies speaking Indo-European languages, using cross-cultural data in the systematic and explicitly historical framework afforded by t...

Researchers interested in the history of the Indo-European family of languages have used a variety of methods to estimate the phylogeny of the family, and have obtained widely differing results. In this paper we explore the reconstructions of the IndoEuropean phylogeny obtained by using the major phylogeny estimation procedures on an existing database of 336 characters (including lexical, phono...