Even the unimplemented language can be useful. By writing programmes using the language, one achieves a disciplined and structured programming style which is hard to attain in a less structured environment. The programmes can later be translated by hand into some other language. This approach was found to be very successful in a trial by a class of engineering students, using the first version ...

This paper addresses the problem of synchronizing movie subtitles, which is necessary to improve alignment quality when building a parallel corpus out of translated subtitles. In particular, synchronization is done on the basis of aligned anchor points. Previous studies have shown that cognate filters are useful for the identification of such points. However, this restricts the approach to rela...

Suicide has become a significantly prominent issue because high frequencies of occurrences make it one of the top three causes of death for young people in the United States. To prevent suicide attempts, it is important to identify suicidal tendencies in the behavior, speech, or writing of an individual as early as possible. This paper demonstrates one technique of analyzing written material to...

In this paper we present the development of BrailLector, a system able to speak from Braille writing. By means of dynamic thresholding, adaptive Braille grid, recovery dots techniques and TTS software (Text-To-Speech), BrailLector translates Braille scanned images into normal text, and not only that, it speaks the translated text. BrailLector is a robust application with innovative thersholding...

Adaptation of statistical machine translation (SMT) systems from generic to specific domains is challenging due to the lack of training data. In this paper we propose a framework for domain adaptation by exploiting a large monolingual in-domain corpus. We identify the significant patterns to capture the domain specific writing styles. The patterns are then translated with the involvements of do...

This he considered "rather a grim discovery", but he tried to improve the situation by writing a textbook that would spell out for students the nature of what he called "Psychology's Scientific Endeavor". In doing so he joined the ranks of contributors to a distinct genre, one that is just about as old as experimental psychology itself. The first methodological text was published by Wilhelm Wun...

By Felix Lejars. Translated from the Sixth French Edition by W. S. Dickie, F.R.C.S. Vol. I. Pp. xiv, 617. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. 1909. The translator and publishers of this work are to be congratulated on its material and artistic excellence, and its production is an honour to its author and an ornament to European surgery. There are few authors who can say of a book, " I have lived i...

An important question is how to determine if a person is exhibiting suicidal tendencies in behavior, speech, or writing. This paper demonstrates a method of analyzing written material to determine whether or not a person is suicidal or not. The method involves an analysis of word frequencies that are then translated into a fuzzy cognitive map that will be able to determine if the word frequency...