This paper evaluates the hypothesis that pictorial representations can be used to effectively convey simple sentences across language barriers. Comparative evaluations show that a...
Less than 1% of the languages spoken in the world are correctly "computerized": spell checkers, hyphenation, machine translation are still lacking for the others. In thi...
In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted usi...
We propose a novel heuristic algorithm for Cube Pruning running in linear time in the beam size. Empirically, we show a gain in running time of a standard machine translation syst...
This paper presents a method for cross-language question answering. The method combines multiple query translations in order to improve the answering precision. The combination of ...