With more and more natural language text stored in databases, handling respective query predicates becomes very important. Optimizing queries with predicates includes (sub)string ...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
NLPsystem developers and corpus lexicographers would both bene t from a tool for nding and organizing the distinctive patterns of use of words in texts. Such a tool would be an ass...
In recent work, we proposed an alternative to parallel text as translation model (TM) training data: audio recordings of parallel speech (pSp), as it occurs in any communication s...