This paper describes the test of a dependency parsing method which is based on bidirectional LSTM feature representations and multilingual word embedding, and evaluates the results on monoand multilingual data. The results are similar in all cases, with a slightly better results achieved using multilingual data. The languages under investigation are Komi-Zyrian and Russian. Examination of the r...

An analysis of the different models of usage of thesauruses in web services to facilitate multilingual subject access to digital collections is presented. The case of the adaptation of the Tesauro de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (generated by Cindoc) for use in a journal article portal and which also permits multilingual querying, is described below. The conclusions assess the thesaurus’s ef...

The speech-to-speech translation system Verbmobil requires a multilingual setting. This consists of recognition engines in the three languages German, English and Japanese that run in one common framework together with a language identification component which is able to switch between these recognizers. This article describes the challenges of multilingual speech recognition and presents diffe...

Multilingual speakers switch between languages in online and spoken communication. Analyses of large scale multilingual data require automatic language identification at the word level. For our experiments with multilingual online discussions, we first tag the language of individual words using language models and dictionaries. Secondly, we incorporate context to improve the performance. We ach...

We present our state of the art multilingual text summarizer capable of single as well as multi-document text summarization. The algorithm is based on repeated application of TextRank on a sentence similarity graph, a bag of words model for sentence similarity and a number of linguistic preand post-processing steps using standard NLP tools. We submitted this algorithm for two different tasks of...

Multilingual ontology matching is a recent research topic concerning the application of the traditional schema matching algorithms in conjunction with the use of multilingual resources. In this demo, we present an architecture, based on the use of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, developed for addressing the task of suggesting alignments between two or more multilingual ontologies. The va...

Associative networks are a connectionist language model with the ability to categorize large sets of documents. In this research we combine monolingual associative networks based on Wikipedia to create a larger, multilingual associative network, using the cross-lingual connections between Wikipedia articles. We prove that such multilingual associative networks perform better than monolingual as...

The goal of this paper is to cross-lingually analyze multilingual blogs collected with a topic keyword. The framework of collecting multilingual blogs with a topic keyword is designed as the blog feed retrieval procedure. Multilingual queries for retrieving blog feeds are created from Wikipedia entries. Finally, we present an interface for visualizing crosslingual/cross-cultural differences in ...

Today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. This phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of Kalhuri dialect of the Kurdish language in the multilingual context of Iran, too. Nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a novel resource for Multilingual Question Answering (QA). Such a resource consists of a set of multilingual pattern libraries for answer extraction and validation. In the spirit of the ongoing attempts to develop freely available resources for QA, we argue that the distribution and use of pattern libraries will contribute to make Multilingual Q...