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Discourse-level Annotation over Europarl for Machine Translation: Connectives and Pronouns

This paper describes methods and results for the annotation of two discourse-level phenomena, connectives and pronouns, over a multilingual parallel corpus. Excerpts from Europarl in English and French have been annotated with disambiguation information fo ...

2012

Arabic Entity Graph Extraction Using Morphology, Finite State Machines, and Graph Transformations

Hamza Harkous

Research on automatic recognition of named entities from Arabic text uses techniques that work well for the Latin based languages such as local grammars, statistical learning models, pattern matching, and rule-based techniques. These techniques boost their ...

2012

Extracting Directional and Comparable Corpora from a Multilingual Corpus for Translation Studies

Thomas Meyer

Translation studies rely more and more on corpus data to examine specificities of translated texts, that can be translated from different original languages and compared to original texts. In parallel, more and more multilingual corpora are becoming availa ...

2012

Extracting Informative Textual Parts from Web Pages Containing User-Generated Content

Nikolaos Pappas

The vast amount of user-generated content on the Web has increased the need for handling the problem of automatically processing content in web pages. The segmentation of web pages and noise (non-informative segment) removal are important pre-processing st ...

ACM2012

Translating English Discourse Connectives into Arabic: a Corpus-based Analysis and an Evaluation Metric

Andrei Popescu-Belis

Discourse connectives can often signal multiple discourse relations, depending on their context. The automatic identification of the Arabic translations of seven English discourse connectives shows how these connectives are differently translated depending ...

2012

Automatic Speaker Role Labeling in AMI Meetings: Recognition of Formal and Social Roles

Fabio Valente, Ashtosh Sapru

This work aims at investigating the automatic recognition of speaker role in meeting conversations from the AMI corpus. Two types of roles are considered: formal roles, fixed over the meeting duration and recognized at recording level, and social roles rel ...

2012

Using KL-divergence and multilingual information to improve ASR for under-resourced languages

Hervé Bourlard, Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng

Setting out from the point of view that automatic speech recognition (ASR) ought to benefit from data in languages other than the target language, we propose a novel Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence based method that is able to exploit multilingual informa ...

2012

Multilingual Annotation and Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer

Many discourse connectives can signal several types of relations between sentences. Their automatic disambiguation, i.e. the labeling of the correct sense of each occurrence is important for discourse parsing, but could also be helpful to machine translati ...

2011

Current trends in multilingual speech processing

Hervé Bourlard, Petr Motlicek, Philip Neil Garner, John David Scott Dines, Fabio Valente, David Imseng, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Babu Saheer

In this paper, we describe recent work at Idiap Research Institute in the domain of multilingual speech processing and provide some insights into emerging challenges for the research community. Multilingual speech processing has been a topic of ongoing int ...

2011

How Comparable are Parallel Corpora? Measuring the Distribution of General Vocabulary and Connectives

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer

In this paper, we question the homogeneity of a large parallel corpus by measuring the similarity between various sub-parts. We compare results obtained using a general measure of lexical similarity based on c2 and by counting the number of discourse conne ...

2011

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