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Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

A Trojan Horse across the Channel: On the circulation of Vincenzio Viviani’s divinatio through his correspondence with Robert Southwell

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Self-proclaimed Galileo’s last disciple, Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703) strove all his life to become a renowned mathematician. Extolling the supposed purity of Euclid’s geometry, he sought to recover the lost knowledge of the Ancients, and fashioned himsel ...

2021

PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE SHORT-TIME OBJECTIVE INTELLIGIBILITY MEASURE

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Impaired speech intelligibility in motor speech disorders arising due to neurological diseases negatively affects the communication ability and quality of life of patients. Reliable and cost-effective measures to automatically assess speec ...

2019

Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment based on the Short-Time Objective Intelligibility Measure

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

IEEE2019

Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding

Mi Xue Tan

Character-level Neural Machine Translation(NMT) models have recently achieved impressive results on many language pairs. They mainly do well for Indo-European language pairs, where the languages share the same writing system. However, for translating betwe ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2018

Validation of an Automatic Metric for the Accuracy of Pronoun Translation (APT)

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Lesly Sadiht Miculicich Werlen

In this paper, we define and assess a reference-based metric to evaluate the accuracy of pronoun translation (APT). The metric automatically aligns a candidate and a reference translation using GIZA++ augmented with specific heuristics, and then counts the ...

Idiap2016

English-French Verb Phrase Alignment in Europarl for Tense Translation Modeling

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer

This paper presents a method for verb phrase (VP) alignment in an English/French parallel corpus and its use for improving statistical machine translation (SMT) of verb tenses. The method starts from automatic word alignment performed with GIZA++, and reli ...

2014

"Hope has returned": The glorious reception of OMA/Rem Koolhaas in the Dutch-speaking world

Christophe van Gerrewey

Important texts about the work of OMA (and by Rem Koolhaas himself) have been written in English. In this article, the reception in the Dutch-speaking world is examined, from 1978 until 1990. As the writings of critics such as Geert Bekaert, Hans van Dijk, ...

2013

Are ACT's scores increasing with better translation quality?

This paper gives a detailed description of the ACT (Accuracy of Connective Translation) metric, a reference-based metric that assesses only connective translations. ACT relies on automatic word-level alignment (using GIZA++) between a source sentence and r ...

2013

The Kinship or k-Index as an Antidote Against the Toxic Effects of h-Indices

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

In a bilingual paper entitled 'Bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation - La bibliometrie comme arme de citation massive',([1]) recently translated into English,([2]) we have argued that the current fashion of ranking people, papers and journals is anythi ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2011

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