This work presents improvements of a large-scale Arabic to French statistical machine translation system over a period of three years. The development includes better preprocessin...
This paper presents a pilot study of the use of phrasal Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to identify and correct writing errors made by learners of English as a Se...
Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the manyto-many mapping between names and their referents. We...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
We discuss the problem of generating text that preserves certain ambiguities, a capability that is useful in applications such as machine translation. We show that it is relativel...