In 2003, the Department of Science and Technology awarded a 5million-peso grant to De La Salle University for the development of an EnglishFilipino Machine Translation System. Faced with limited resources for the Filipino language, the team has to build language resources and develop language tools in order to complete the system. This paper presents the different resources and tools created an...

The current state of Philippine linguistic resources, which includes formal grammars, electronic dictionaries and corpora are not yet significant to address industrialstrength language technologies. This paper discusses a computational approach in automatically estimating constituent structures from a corpus using unsupervised probabilistic approaches. Two models are presented and results show ...

Despite advances in reproductive health law, many Filipino women experience unintended pregnancies, and because abortion is highly stigmatized in the country, many who seek abortion undergo unsafe procedures. This report provides a summary of reproductive health indicators in the Philippines—in particular, levels of contraceptive use, unplanned pregnancy and unsafe abortion—and describes the so...

This paper presents the current situation of Filipino Sign Language in the Deaf community and milestones in sign linguistics research. It highlights key computing research, particularly in Asia as well as enumerates research attempts to date of Philippine academic institutions which have applications in sign language recognition. This paper also touches on technical considerations, economic fea...

Fungal infection of bone by Penicillium marneffei is rare. We report on a case of Penicillium marneffei infection in a Filipino woman, which involved multiple soft-tissue abscesses and infection of the axial skeleton. Early diagnosis and treatment of this potentially reversible disease is emphasised. Such an approach is essential to prevent bony destruction from becoming too advanced and, more ...