— Serious efforts to develop computerized systems for natural language understanding and machine translation have taken place for more than half a century. Some successful system...
Many automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation (MT) rely on making comparisons to human translations, a resource that may not always be available. We present a method f...
We propose a robust method of automatically constructing a bilingual word sense dictionary from readily available monolingual ontologies by using estimation-maximization, without ...
This paper evaluates the hypothesis that pictorial representations can be used to effectively convey simple sentences across language barriers. Comparative evaluations show that a...
One of the most challenging tasks for uniformed service personnel serving in foreign countries is effective verbal communication with the local population. To remedy this problem,...
Brian A. Weiss, Craig Schlenoff, Greg Sanders, Mic...