We present the UOT Machine Translation System that was used in the IWSLT-09 evaluation campaign. This year, we participated in the BTEC track for Chinese-to-English translation. Our system is based on a string-to-tree framework. To integrate deep syntactic information, we propose the use of parse trees and semantic dependencies on English sentences described respectively by Head-driven Phrase S...

This article examines complement clauses in the Caribbean English spoken Bequia (St Vincent and Grenadines). Despite a small population (about 5,000), physical proximity pervasive kinship ties across villages, is characterised by considerable inter-group differentiation, suggesting existence of (post-)creole continuum. We analyse variation complementisers used to introduce finite (that, zero) n...

In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of previous index structures for phrases and achieves better query efficiency with negligible extra storage cost. In our experimental evaluation, a common phrase index has 5% and 20% improvement in query time for the overall and l...

Mechanisms for representing lexically the bulk of syntactic and semantic information for a language have been under active development, as is evident in the recent studies contained in this volume. Our study serves to highlight some of the most useful tools available for structured lexical representation, in particular (multiple) inheritance, default specification, and lexical rules. It then il...