NOTE: The findings in this Technical Report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position, unless so designated by other authorized documents.

In the process of translating patent documents, a bilingual lexicon of technical terms is inevitable knowledge source. It is important to develop techniques of acquiring technical term translation equivalent pairs automatically from parallel patent documents. We take an approach of utilizing the phrase table of a state-of-theart phrase-based statistical machine translation model. First, we coll...

More and more users prefer to ask their technical questions online. For machines, understanding a question is nontrivial. Current approaches lack explicit background knowledge. In this paper, we introduce a novel technical question understanding approach to recommending probable solutions to users. First, a knowledge graph is constructed which contains abundant technical information, and an aug...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

In this paper, a novel method is presented for detection and classification of the faultyphase/region in the stator winding of synchronous generators on the basis of the resulting harmoniccomponents that appear in the terminal voltage waveforms. Analytical results obtained through DecisionTree (DT) show that the internal faults are not only detectable but also they can be classified andthe rela...

GIS technology is more and more used even in the technical practice of a construction industry. In the preparatory phase of the construction, the problems of a spatial positioning (location) of the construction have to be solved jointly with the checking of the feasibility and purposefulness, the traffic projects are worked out, and the alternative, more detailed solutions of technical problems...

In this paper, we propose an approach for corporate decision making with self-organizing patent maps labeled by technical terms and AHP. First, we select the patent area of interest and collect pertinent patent documents in text format. Second, we extract keywords by text mining to transform patent documents into feature vectors of the companies. Third, we input the feature matrix of technical ...

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There is a common belief that wysiwyg technical editors are not suited for editing structured texts and generating documents with a high typographical quality. In this paper, we analyze the reasons behind this belief. We next discuss the program GNU TEXmacs and some of its innovations in relation to the difficulties of structured, wysiwyg, technical text editing.