This paper investigates the value of computer technology as a medium for the delivery of parallel texts in English and Chinese for language learning. An English-Chinese parallel corpus was created for use in parallel concordancing -a technique which has been developed to respond to the desire to study language in its natural contexts of use. Specific problems of dealing with Chinese characters ...

We consider a parallel Algol-like language, combining procedures with shared-variable parallelism. Procedures permit encapsulation of common parallel programming idioms. Local variables provide a way to restrict interference between parallel commands. The combination of local variables, procedures, and parallelism supports a form of concurrent object-oriented programming. We provide a denotatio...

In this work we present an approach for extracting parallel phrases from comparable news articles to improve statistical machine translation. This is particularly useful for under-resourced languages where parallel corpora are not readily available. Our approach consists of a phrase pair generator that automatically generates candidate parallel phrases and a binary SVM classifier that classifie...

We have designed a functional data-parallel language called BSML for programming bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) algorithms. Deadlocks and indeterminism are avoided and the execution time can be then estimated. For very large scale applications more than one parallel machine could be needed. One speaks about metacomputing. A major problem in programming application for such architectures is the...

Delaunay triangulation exposes highly irregular computation patterns, which imposes challenge on high-level language designers and implementors, in terms of adequate expressiveness of the language and eecient implementation of supported language features. This paper reports an implementation of divide-and-conquer parallel Delaunay triangulation with High Performance Fortran (HPF), a high-level ...

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel ML (BSML) is a functional language for BSP programming, a model of computing which allows parallel programs to be ported to a wide range of architectures. It is based on an extension of the ML language by parallel operations on a parallel data structure called parallel vector, which is given by intention. We present the certification of a library of BSML programs w...

We present a named-entity recognition (NER) system for parallel multilingual text. Our system handles three languages (i.e., English, French, and Spanish) and is tailored to the biomedical domain. For each language, we design a supervised knowledge-based CRF model with rich biomedical and general domain information. We use the sentence alignment of the parallel corpora, the word alignment gener...

In this paper, we investigate large-scale lightly-supervised training with a pivot language: We augment a baseline statistical machine translation (SMT) system that has been trained on human-generated parallel training corpora with large amounts of additional unsupervised parallel data; but instead of creating this synthetic data from monolingual source language data with the baseline system it...

We propose a model-driven approach to parallel programming of SPMD-style, explicitly parallel computations. We define an executable, platform-independent modeling language with explicitly parallel control and data flow for an abstract parallel computer with shared address space, and implement it as an extension of UML2 activity diagrams and a generator for Fork source code that can be compiled ...

This study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning English as a foreign language (EFL), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the...