We propose a novel model to automatically extract transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. Our model is efficient, language pair independent and mines transliteration pairs in a consistent fashion in both unsupervised and semi-supervised settings. We model transliteration mining as an interpolation of transliteration and non-transliteration sub-models. We evaluate on NEWS 2010 shared task d...

According to a recently stated ‘independence postulate’, the distribution Pcause contains no information about the conditional Peffect|cause while Peffect may contain information about Pcause|effect. Since semi-supervised learning (SSL) attempts to exploit information from PX to assist in predicting Y from X, it should only work in anticausal direction, i.e., when Y is the cause and X is the ef...

This work is devoted to the study of field-aligned interpolation in semi-Lagrangian codes. In the context of numerical simulations of magnetic fusion devices, this approach is motivated by the observation that gradients of the solution along the magnetic field lines are typically much smaller than along a perpendicular direction. In toroidal geometry, field-aligned interpolation consists of a 1...

Adaptive semi-Lagrangian schemes for solving the Vlasov equation in the phase space have recently been developed. They include wavelet techniques (Gutnic et al., 2004; Gutnic et al., 2005), the moving mesh method (Sonnendrücker et al., 2004), and hierarchical finite element decomposition (Campos Pinto and Mehrenberger, 2004; Campos Pinto and Mehrenberger, 2005). One main advantage of the latter...

Groundwater is a major source of water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural sectors in many countries. The main objective of this research was to provide an overview of present groundwater quality using parameters such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, chloride, sulfate, pH, and electrical conductivity (EC) in the Mehran plain, Ilam province using GIS and geostatistical techniques. A total o...

High-order accurate methods for convection-dominated problems have the potential to reduce the computational effort required for a given order of solution accuracy. The state of the art in this field is more advanced for Eulerian methods than for semi-Lagrangian (SLAG) methods. In this paper, we introduce a new SLAG method that is based on combining the modified method of characteristics with a...

In this paper we present one approach to build optimal meshes for P1 interpolation. Considering classical geometric error estimates based on the Hessian matrix of a solution, we show it is possible to generate optimal meshes in H 1 semi-norm via a simple minimization procedure.

Groundwater is a major source of water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural sectors in many countries. The main objective of this research was to provide an overview of present groundwater quality using parameters such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, chloride, sulfate, pH, and electrical conductivity (EC) in the Mehran plain, Ilam province using GIS and geostatistical techniques. A total o...

We present five theorems concerning the asymptotic convergence rates of Chebyshev interpolation applied to functions transplanted to either a semi-infinite or an infinite interval under exponential or double-exponential transformations. This strategy is useful for approximating and computing with functions that are analytic apart from endpoint singularities. The use of Chebyshev polynomials ins...

[1] We present a hybrid method for the numerical solution of advection-diffusion problems that combines two standard algorithms: semi-Lagrangian schemes for hyperbolic advection-reaction problems and CrankNicolson schemes for purely diffusive problems. We show that the hybrid scheme is identical to the two end-member schemes in the limit of infinite and zero Peclet number and remains accurate o...