Luc Hoffmann (1923-2016)

Obituary for Walter Kohn (1923-2016)

Karlheinz Schwarz 1,*, Lu J. Sham 2, Ann E. Mattsson 3 and Matthias Scheffler 4,5 1 Institute for Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, A-1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165, Austria 2 Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA; [email protected] 3 Multi Scale Science, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322, USA; aematts@s...

Gernot Hoffmann

BAD LUC$@$WMT 2016: a Bilingual Document Alignment Platform Based on Lucene

We participated in the Bilingual Document Alignment shared task of WMT 2016 with the intent of testing plain cross-lingual information retrieval platform built on top of the Apache Lucene framework. We devised a number of interesting variants, including one that only considers the URLs of the pages, and that offers — without any heuristic — surprisingly high performances. We finally submitted t...

Editorial Luc

B1A3D2 LUC@WMT 2016: a Bilingual1 Document2 Alignment3 Platform Based on Lucene

We participated in the Bilingual Document Alignment shared task of WMT 2016 with the intent of testing plain cross-lingual information retrieval platform built on top of the Apache Lucene framework. We devised a number of interesting variants, including one that only considers the URLs of the pages, and that offers — without any heuristic — surprisingly high performances. We finally submitted t...