In this paper, we describe the techniques that are explored in the AppTek system to enhance the translations in the Turkish to English track of IWSLT09. The submission was generated using a phrase-based statistical machine translation system. We also researched the usage of morpho-syntactic information and the application of word reordering in order to improve the translation results. The resul...

This talk is about the standards for morpho-syntactic and syntactic corpus annotation: MAF (Morpho-syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO/FDIS 24611) and SynAF (Syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO 24615:2010). Both standards complement each other and are closely related. In contrast to MAF, which describes features such as part of speech, morphological and grammatical features, SynAf describes rel...

A way to improve outputs produced by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems isto integrate additional linguistic knowledge. Our research in this eld focuses on two aspects:morpho-syntactic information and thematic adaptation.In the rst part, we propose a new mode of integration of parts of speech in a post-processingstage of speech decoding. To do this, we tag N-best sentenc...

We present a calculus for representing and reasoning about the location of rigid objects which may move within some region (we will speak ofmobile parts). The calculus has both a mereological primitive and a morphological one, hence the title of the paper. We present an axiomatisation for congruence, our chosen morphological primitive, define the notion of mobile part, describe a subset of morp...

ParaMor, our unsupervised morphology induction system performed well at Morpho Challenge 2008. When ParaMor's morphological analyses, which specialize at identifying inflectional morphology, are added to the analyses from the general purpose unsupervised morphology induction system, Morfessor, the combined system identifies the morphemes of all five Challenge languages at recall scores higher t...

We report on an English-speaking, aphasic individual (TB) who showed a striking dissociation in speaking with the different forms (allomorphs) that an inflection can take. Although very accurate in producing the consonantal inflections (-/s/, -/z/, -/d/, -/t/), TB consistently omitted syllabic inflections (-/əz/, -/əd/), therefore correctly saying "dogs" or "walked," but "bench" for benches or ...

Research in methods of lexicalization, classification, analysis-synthesis, transformation, transition, and generation, which has been carried on independently in the German and English sections at LIMAS, has recently been consolidated for the purpose of constructing a Ring-Translation-Model This model has to meet the following requirements: I. It must;produce a translation which is identical in...

Previous studies suggest that different neural and functional mechanisms are involved in the analysis of irregular (caught) and regular (filled) past tense forms in English. In particular, the comprehension and production of regular forms is argued to require processes of morpho-phonological assembly and disassembly, analysing these forms into a stem plus an inflectional affix (e.g., {fill}+{-e...

In this paper, we describe an ongoing project of developing a treebank for Amharic. The main objective of developing the treebank is to use it as an input for the development of a parser. Morphologically-rich Languages like Arabic, Amharic and other Semitic languages present challenges to the state-of-art in parsing. In such language morphemes play important functions in both morphology and syn...

In this work, Morfessor, a morpheme segmentation model and algorithm developed by the organizers of the Morpho Challenge, is outlined and references are made to earlier work. Although Morfessor does not take part in the official Challenge competition, we report experimental results for the morpheme segmentation of English, Finnish and Turkish words. The obtained results are very good. Morfessor...