Many multilingual NLP applications need to translate words between different languages, but cannot afford the computational expense of inducing or applying a full translation model. For these applications, we have designed a fast algorithm for estimating a partial translation model, which accounts for translational equivalence only at the word level . The model's precision/recall trade-off can ...

This paper describes the work achieved in the first half of a 4-year cooperative research project (ARCADE), financed by AUPELF-UREF. The project is devoted to the evaluation of parallel text alignment techniques. In its first period ARCADE ran a competit ion between six systems on a sentence-to-sentence alignment task which yielded two main types of results. First, a large reference bilingual c...

Introduction The importance of metaphor in scientific discourse is widely recognized, and some earlier studies have considered variation in metaphor use in different genres dealing with scientific issues (e.g. Nerlich and Halliday 2007, Semino 2008: 140ff.). More specifically, Skorczynska and Deignan (2006) have used a corpus-based approach to investigate the differences in the metaphors used i...

Preliminary findings from corpus analysis suggest that the semantics of each verb in the language are determined by the totality of its complementation patterns. Accurate description of those patterns requires a lev el of analytic delicacy which was not possible until the advent of large bodies of data, along with techniques for distinguishing significant patterns from mere noise. Such analysis...

With the intention of defining an initial research agenda for discipline-specific factors in the usability of elearning websites, this paper focuses on the example of foreign language learning. First, general notions and concepts of usability are analyzed, and the term 'pedagogical usability' is proposed as a means of focusing on the close relationship between usability and pedagogical design. ...