_______________ This study investigated the performance of native and non native speakers of Modern Greek language on morphology and syntax tasks. Non-native speakers of Greek whose native language was English, which is a language with strict word order and simple morphology, made more errors and answered more slowly than native speakers on morphology but not syntax tasks. It seems that Greek f...

We present the CMU-UKA Syntax Augmented Machine Translation System that was used in the IWSLT-06 evaluation campaign. We participated in the C-Star data track using only the Full BTEC corpus, for Chinese-English translation, focusing on transcript translation. We applied techniques that produce true-cased, punctuated translations from non-punctuated Chinese transcripts, generating translations ...

Programming Language Syntax and Semantics introduces methods for formally specifying the syntax and semantics of programming languages. Understanding Programming Languages provides A comprehensive look at the design elements of programming languages. It will enable the developers, managers and architects to. 99 pages. Following is an analysis of how computer languages are taught and how English...

In this paper I present a Master’s thesis proposal in syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. I propose to build discriminative SMT models using both tree-to-string and tree-to-tree approaches. Translation and language models will be represented mainly through the use of Tree Automata and Tree Transducers. These formalisms have important representational properties that makes them well-su...

The paper presents the major principles and concepts of a dependency grammar theory of discontinuities for English and German (and presumably for many other languages as well). Discontinuities are identified in terms of traditional projectivity violations. These violations are then reanalyzed according to the Rising Principle. This principle sees the relevant constituent attaching to a word tha...

We compare vectors containing counts of trigrams of part-of-speech (POS) tags in order to obtain an aggregate measure of syntax difference. Since lexical syntactic categories reflect more abstract syntax as well, we argue that this procedure reflects more than just the basic syntactic categories. We tag the material automatically and analyze the frequency vectors for POS trigrams using a permut...

Abstract The global growth of geotourism has increased the demand and quality for interpretation. However, in its pioneer stage, interpretation much ineffective interpretation, which hinders informative purpose geotourism. Moreover, lacks a systematic evaluation model. Such model is essential to future reliable minimising This paper exams whether currently proposed SSC (Semantic, Style Cultural...

We discuss the problem of interpreting noun compounds such as colon cancer tumor suppressor protein, which pose major challenges for the automatic interpretation of English written text. We present an overview of the more general process of compounding and of noun compounds in particular, as well as of their syntax and semantics from both theoretical and computational linguistics viewpoint with...

One major drawback of using Translation Memories (TMs) in phrase-based Machine Translation (MT) is that only continuous phrases are considered. In contrast, syntax-based MT allows phrasal discontinuity by learning translation rules containing non-terminals. In this paper, we combine a TM with syntax-based MT via sparse features. These features are extracted during decoding based on translation ...

We take a fresh, “clean-room” look at implementing Prolog by deriving its translation to an executable representation and its execution algorithm from a simple Horn Clause meta-interpreter. The resulting design has some interesting properties: • the heap representation of terms and the abstract machine instruction encodings are the same • no dedicated code area is used as the code is placed dir...