We implement a variant of the algorithm described by Yarowsky and Ngai in [21] to induce an HMM POS tagger for an arbitrary target language using only an existing POS tagger for a source language and an unannotated parallel corpus between the source and target languages. We extend this work by projecting from multiple source languages onto a single target language. We hypothesize that systemati...

Abstract Interpreters are hypothesized to anticipate the source language (SL) in comprehension and target (TL) production facilitate timely delivery. In two experiments, we examined whether interpreters make more predictions SL consecutive interpreting than regular such enhanced prediction (if any) is constrained by cognitive resources. Participants were quicker at reading a predictable versus ...

This paper shows that it is very often possible to identify the source language of medium-length speeches in the EUROPARL corpus on the basis of frequency counts of word n-grams (87.2%96.7% accuracy depending on classification method). The paper also examines in detail which positive markers are most powerful and identifies a number of linguistic aspects as well as cultureand domain-related ones.1

This book discusses the contribution of excitation source information in discriminating language. The authors focus on the excitation source component of speech for enhancement of language identification (LID) performance. Language specific features are extracted using two different modes: (i) Implicit processing of linear prediction (LP) residual and (ii) Explicit parameterization of linear pr...

For resource-limited language pairs, coverage of the test set by the parallel corpus is an important factor that affects translation quality in two respects: 1) out of vocabulary words; 2) the same information in an input sentence can be expressed in different ways, while current phrase-based SMT systems cannot automatically select an alternative way to transfer the same information. Therefore,...

This book discusses the contribution of excitation source information in discriminating language. The authors focus on the excitation source component of speech for enhancement of language identification (LID) performance. Language specific features are extracted using two different modes: (i) Implicit processing of linear prediction (LP) residual and (ii) Explicit parameterization of linear pr...

This book discusses the contribution of excitation source information in discriminating language. The authors focus on the excitation source component of speech for enhancement of language identification (LID) performance. Language specific features are extracted using two different modes: (i) Implicit processing of linear prediction (LP) residual and (ii) Explicit parameterization of linear pr...