The New Generation Tempest System

New superbug or tempest in a teapot?

In mid-February this year, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden called a press conference to announce that a case of rapidly progressing, multidrugresistant HIV/AIDS had been identified. Although drug resistance is common, and rapid progression to AIDS is rare but not unheard of, it is the combination of both factors in one patient that raised the fear among public health officials ...

TEMPEST: A Text Input System for Musical Performers

Recently, due to the widespread use of computers, text-based communication methods, such as e-mail and chat, have attracted a great deal of attention. If pianists can apply their musical expressions to the text input, they can input texts with their own emotion richly. Therefore, the goal of our study is to construct TEMPEST (TExt input and Musical PErforming SysTem) that is a text input system...

A Scientific Tempest

New Generation Systran Translation System

In this paper, we present the design of the new generation Systran translation systems, currently utilized in the development of English-Hungarian, English-Polish, English-Arabic, French-Arabic, Hungarian-French and Polish-French language pairs. The new design, based on the traditional Systran machine translation expertise and the existing linguistic resources, addresses the following aspects: ...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...