Temporal uncertainty in raw data can impede the inference of temporal and causal relationships between events and compromise the output of data-to-text NLG systems. In this paper, we introduce a framework to reason with and represent temporal uncertainty from the raw data to the generated text, in order to provide a faithful picture to the user of a particular situation. The model is grounded i...

In the West, Translation Studies as a discipline has a very short but lively history. Founded in the early 1970s in the Low Countries—Holland and Belgium—translation studies is a fairly new field. Yet, today some theorists suggest that the discipline is too limited to translated texts and excludes much translation data being generated from other fields of inquiry, including theater, art, archit...

In a distributed system, it is often important to detect the causal relationships between events, where event e 1 is causally before event e 2 if e 1 happened before e 2 and could possibly have aaected the occurrence of e 2. In this paper we argue that detecting causal relationships among events can be important for security, in the sense that it may be essential to the correct implementation o...

John Taylor has produced a comprehensive and insightful paper. He begins by reviewing what he calls the “Great Inflation,” the period of the 1970s and early 1980s. Following Brad De Long’s observation that by the early 1970s, well before the oil shocks, baseline U.S. inflation was already in the 4 percent to 5 percent range, John Taylor rejects the hypothesis that the oil price shocks of the pe...

(SK) Well I guess it is a slightly different answer for each of us, but essentially for all of us, it was through the Eurotra project. This was the MT project that was created by the European Commission in the late 1970s. The aim was to produce a high quality, fully automatic machine translation system for use by the EC. The EC had a serious translation problem because of the number of language...