Text prediction is a form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. In principle it can assist in the production of a target text with minimal disruption to a translator’s normal routine. However, recent evaluations of a prototype prediction system showed that it significantly decreased the productivity of most translators who used it. In this paper, we anal...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Chinese-to-English spoken language translation system. The system employs the multiple translation engines, and it consists of a template-based translator, a semantic parsing based translator (SPBT) and a statistic based translator (SBT) as well. SPBT uses the interchange format (IF) to represent the understanding results of input ut...

Machine translation is the process of translating text from one natural language to other using computers. The process requires extreme intelligence and experience like a human being that a machine usually lacks. Availability of machine translators for translation from English to Dravidian language, Malayalam is on the low. A few corpus-based and non-corpus based approaches have been tried in p...

We have developed a software framework that will support experiments to explore the role of translator resources and tools in the performance of translation and translation-related activities. This software environment brings together a wide range of resources and tools within a single work environment that has been instrumented to measure the actions of the translator. In this paper we present...

We discuss early results with Toucan, a sourceto-source translator that automatically restructures C/C++ MPI applications to overlap communication with computation. We co-designed the translator and runtime system to enable dynamic, dependence-driven execution of MPI applications, and require only a modest amount of programmer annotation. Co-design was essential to realizing overlap through dyn...

Although significant improvements have been achieved in statistical machine translation (SMT), even the best machine translation technology is far from competing with human translators. An alternative approach to obtain high quality translation is to use a human translator who is assisted by an SMT. In interactive-predictive computer-assisted translation (IPCAT) paradigm, the human translator b...

A mapping between the CIMsteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) and the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) product data models for structural steel has been developed. The development of the mapping takes a pragmatic approach through a manual inspection of both schemas to see which entities and attributes correspond to each other. In some cases there is a direct one-to-one mapping between CIS/2 and...

Despite skepticism concerning the latest buzz phrases about Web services, leading-edge companies have already begun deploying Web services that are giving them competitive advantages. Major platform vendors are now rolling out revolutionary tools aimed at simplifying the creation and deployment of Web services. Promising cheap, reliable, flexible, and scalable computing as well as quality web s...

ScrabbleTM-to-MIDI is a computer-emulated two dimensional board game that generates MIDI music from game rules and state as the game is played. Software modules include the board graphical user interface, rule engine and game state, a translator that maps game state to musical events, a second graphical user interface for manipulating translator configuration parameters, and a software synthesi...

In this paper, an attempt to develop a phrase-based statistical machine translation between English and Persian languages (PersianSMT) is described. Creation of the largest English-Persian parallel corpus yet presented by the use of movie subtitles is a part of this work. Two major goals are followed here: the first one is to show the main problems observed in the output of the PersianSMT syste...