Database views are extensively used to represent unmaterialized tables. Applications rarely distinguish between a materialized base table and a virtual view, thus, they may issue ...
Large-scale lexical knowledge acquisition is one of the most time critical steps in developing a knowledge-based machine translation system. In particular, developing the syntacti...
John R. R. Leavitt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Kevin Keck...
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
We address the problem of training the free parameters of a statistical machine translation system. We show significant improvements over a state-of-the-art minimum error rate tr...
Previous attempts at identifying translational equivalents in comparable corpora have dealt with very large `general language' corpora and words. We address this task in a sp...