Rule-based approaches have been the dominant paradigm in developing MT systems. Such approaches, however, suffer from difficulties in knowledge acquisition to meet the wide variety and time-changing characteristics of the real text. To attack this problem, some statistical translation models and supporting tools had been developed in the last few years. However, a simple statistical model often...

In other words, previous corpus-based WSD algorithms learn to disambiguate a polysemous word from previous usages of the same word. This has several undesirable consequences. Firstly, a word must occur thousands of times before a good classifter can be trained. There are thousands of polysemous words, e.g., 11,562 polysemous nouns in WordNet (Miller, 1990). For every polysemous word to occur th...

Two studies documented the American English usage frequencies for ninety-seven nouns that occur with sentence complements (e.g., "rumor," "The rumor that the student cheated..."). An established usage preference methodology was used (see Connine, Ferreira, Jones, Clifton, & Frazier, 1984; Kennison, 1999). In Study 1, participants completed short fragments that did not contain the overt compleme...

PURPOSE The construct of 'cognitive rehabilitation' has not been defined in a consensual manner and the variations in usage have produced misunderstanding and controversy. At one extreme, it refers to a paradigm of complex, sophisticated, integrated interventions and at the other to a poorly conceptualized and largely ineffectual service modality. A number of articles criticizing cognitive reha...

This contribution outlines an XML format for representation of differential-algebraic equations (DAE) models obtained from continuous time Modelica models and possibly also from other equation-based modeling languages. The purpose is to offer a standardized model exchange format which is based on the DAE formalism and which is neutral with respect to model usage. Many usages of models go beyond...

Managing Internet firewalls that can failover between each other is quite a challenge. When those firewalls are geographically dispersed and have a small number of people to be maintain them, it becomes even more challenging. Intel Corporation has a small staff that manages several geographically dispersed Internet firewalls with failover requirements. These firewalls use a standard screened su...

Much has been said recently on off-loading computations from the phone. In particular, workloads such as speech and visual recognition that involve models based on “big data” are thought to be prime candidates for cloud processing. We posit that the next few years will see the arrival of mobile usages that require continuous processing of audio and video data from wearable devices. We argue tha...

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the generalizations built by a CBR method can be used as local approximations of a concept. From this point of view, these local approximations can take a role similar to the global approximations built by eager learning methods. Thus, we propose that local approximations can be interpreted either as: 1) a symbolic similitude among a set of cases, 2) a pa...