This paper presents a full experiment on large-vocabulary Catalan-English statistical machine translation without an English-Catalan parallel corpus, in the context of the debates of the European Parliament. For this, we make use of an English-Spanish European Parliament Proceedings parallel corpus and a Spanish-Catalan general newspaper parallel corpus, both of which of more than 30 M words. G...

This paper presents a full experiment on large-vocabulary Catalan-English statistical machine translation without an English-Catalan parallel corpus, in the context of the debates of the European Parliament. For this, we make use of an English-Spanish European Parliament Proceedings parallel corpus and a Spanish-Catalan general newspaper parallel corpus, both of which of more than 30 M words. G...

At TALP, we are working on speech recognition of official languages in Catalonia, i.e. Spanish and Catalan. These two languages share approximately 80 % of their allophones. The speech databases that we have available to train HMMs in Catalan have a smaller size than the Spanish databases. This difference of size of training databases results in poorer phonetic unit models for Catalan than for ...

Many interesting combinatorial objects are enumerated by the k-Catalan numbers, one possible generalization of the Catalan numbers. We will present a new combinatorial object that is enumerated by the k-Catalan numbers, staircase tilings. We give a bijection between staircase tilings and k-good paths, and between k-good paths and k-ary trees. In addition, we enumerate k-ary paths according to D...

Previous research has shown that Catalan mid-vowel contrasts remain difficult for native Spanish adults to perceive, even those who began using Catalan as an L2 as young children. Here we tested 82 Spanish-Catalan bilinguals first exposed to their L2 by school age (3-6 years) who differed in self-reported use of Catalan. All participated in categorization and AXB discrimination tasks using four...

This paper investigates several linguistic changes which are ongoing in north-western Catalan using a contemporary corpus. We take advantage of a range of dialectometric methods that allow us to calculate and analyze the linguistic distance between varieties in apparent time from an aggregate perspective. Specifically, we pay attention to the process of structural dialect loss due to linguistic...

In the paper, the authors survey integral representations of the Catalan numbers and the Catalan–Qi function, discuss equivalent relations between these integral representations, supply alternative and new proofs of several integral representations, collect applications of some integral representations, and present sums of several power series whose coefficients involve the Catalan numbers.

We show here the viability of a rapid deployment of a new language pair within the METIS architecture. Contrarily to other SMT or EBMT systems, the METIS architecture allows us to forgo parallel texts, which for many language pairs, such as Catalan-English are hard to obtain. In this experiment, we have successfully built a Catalan-English prototype by simply plugging a POS tagger for Catalan a...