Language translation without expense or delay

Speed without the expense

Speed without the expense The answer lies in the very nature of embedded systems, which are often manufactured by the thousands or even millions of units. Even a one dollar reduction in per-unit hardware costs can save the manufacturer a small fortune. Many of these systems are cost sensitive, where the use of multi-gigahertz processors or a large memory array is not possible. In the automotive...

Clean Milk without Expense

The interesting fact emerges that farm workers, not properly instructed in the cleansing of covered pails, were actually getting worse results with them than with open pails :? Buckets, open and covered, were washed by the farm hands with warm water and a cloth in accordance with the usual practice. The milk taken into the covered bucket contained many more bacteria than that taken into the ope...

Machine Translation and/or an International Language

Language without communication intention

This paper argues that a language can exist and flourish in a community even if none of of the members of the community has any communication intentions; and that reference to the notion of communication intention can therefore be dispensed with in the core account of the nature oflinguistic meaning. Certainly one cannot elucidate the notion of linguistic meaning without reference to psychologi...

Pronoun Translation and Prediction with or without Coreference Links

The Idiap NLP Group has participated in both DiscoMT 2015 sub-tasks: pronounfocused translation and pronoun prediction. The system for the first sub-task combines two knowledge sources: grammatical constraints from the hypothesized coreference links, and candidate translations from an SMT decoder. The system for the second sub-task avoids hypothesizing a coreference link, and uses instead a lar...