Even sophisticated techniques start out from simple ideas. Later, in reply to application needs or theoretical problems new concepts are introduced and new formalisations proposed...
We discuss different strategies for smoothing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation settings. We show that any type of smoothing is a bet...
: In this paper I recapitulate the ideas of Berman and Hafner (1993) regarding the role of teleology in legal argument. I show how these ideas can be used to address some issues ar...
Recently there have been some new initiatives in the field of parameterized complexity. In this paper, we will report on some of these, concentrating on some open questions, and al...
In this paper we introduce finite automata as a tool for specification and compression of gray-scale image. We describe, what are interests points in pictures and idea if they can ...