We present our systems for the machine translation evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2013. We submitted systems for three language directions: German-to-English, Russianto-English and English-to-Russian. The focus of our approaches lies on effective usage of the in-domain parallel training data. Therefore, we use the training data to tune p...

This paper describes an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic hierarchy for Chinese verbs. Leveraging oo of an existing Chinese conceptual database called HowNet and a Levin-based English verb classiication, we use thematic-role information to create links between Chinese concepts and English classes. The resulting hierarchy is used for multilingual lexicons in an English-Chinese c...

In this paper, we describe two approaches to extending syntactic constraints in the Hierarchical Phrase-Based (HPB) Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) model using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). These extensions target the limitations of previous syntax-augmented HPB SMT systems which limit the coverage of the syntactic constraints applied. We present experiments on Arabic–English and ...

The present study examines the interface between syntax and discourse-pragmatics in the production of verb second (V2) structures in a corpus of English texts by advanced L1 German and Dutch speakers. The evidence shows that the residual V2 produced by the learner groups studied is the result of a deficit at the interface rather than the transfer of narrow V2 syntax per se. The analysis offered...

Perhaps the most famous sentence in linguistics is Noam Chomsky’s “colorless green ideas sleep furiously,” illustrating that an English utterance might be perfectly wellformed syntactically but semantically meaningless (or at least deeply problematic). This sentence helped inaugurate a renewed focus on syntax as a core factor in language [1] — a focus at variance with linguistic practice at the...

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The article looks into English simple utterances about a person’s emotional state. authors dwell on the ways sentence patterns are employed in states and reveal types of propositions (event schemas) structuring states. also discuss factors that determine way particular event is conceptualized structured describe mechanisms underlying representation syntax choice pattern for an utterance this ev...