in this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the translation studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. the participants of this research were thirty one iranian senior translation studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational le...

This paper presents a resolution decision procedure for transitive propositional modal logics. The procedure combines the relational translation method with an ordered chaining calculus designed to avoid unnecessary inferences with transitive relations. We show the logics K4, KD4 and S4 can be transformed into a bounded class of well-structured clauses closed under ordered resolution and negati...

We present an unsupervised inference procedure for phrase-based translation models based on the minimum description length principle. In comparison to current inference techniques that rely on long pipelines of training heuristics, this procedure represents a theoretically wellfounded approach to directly infer phrase lexicons. Empirical results show that the proposed inference procedure has th...

Any analogy made between library retrieval and mechanical translation is usually made by assimilating library retrieval to mechanical translation. We desire to draw the converse analogy; that is, to assimilate mechanical translation to library retrieval. To do this, mechanical translation procedures must be generalised and made interlingual, until they become as general as library retrieval pro...

We participated in the WMT 2016 shared news translation task on English ↔ Chinese language pair. Our systems are based on the encoder-decoder neural machine translation model with the attention mechanism. We employ the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) with the linear associative connection to build deep encoder and address the unknown words with the dictionary replace approach. The dictionaries are e...

This paper presents the end-to-end evaluation of an automatic simultaneous translation system, built with state-of-the-art components. It shows whether, and for which situations, such a system might be advantageous when compared to a human interpreter. Using speeches in English translated into Spanish, we present the evaluation procedure and we discuss the results both for the recognition and t...

We present a novel method for inducing synchronous context free grammars (SCFGs) from a corpus of parallel string pairs. SCFGs can model equivalence between strings in terms of substitutions, insertions and deletions, and the reordering of sub-strings. We develop a non-parametric Bayesian model and apply it to a machine translation task, using priors to replace the various heuristics commonly u...

We define a general method for ranking the solutions of a search process by associating costs with equivalence classes of state transitions of the process. We show how the method accommodates models based on probabilistic, discriminative, and distance cost functions, including assignment of costs to unseen events. By applying the method to our machine translation prototype, we are able to exper...

View update is the problem of translating an update to a view to some updates to the source data of the view. In this paper, we show the factors determining XML view update translation, propose a translation procedure, and propose translated updates to the source document for different types of views. We further show that the translated updates are precise. The proposed solution makes it possib...

We describe stochastic models of local phrase movement that can be incorporated into a Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) system. These models provide properly formulated, non-deficient, probability distributions over reordered phrase sequences. They are implemented by Weighted Finite State Transducers. We describe EM-style parameter re-estimation procedures based on phrase alignment under t...