In responding to the guidelines established by the session chairman of this panel, three of the five topics he set forth will be discussed. These include aggregate functions and quantity questions, querying semantically complex fields, and multi-file queries. As we will make clear in the sequel, the transformational apparatus utilized in the TQA Question Answering System provides a principled b...

In this two-stage empirical research, the authors attempted to study the impact of promoting translation sub-competences defined by PACTE's Multi-Componential Model for Translation Competence on the promotion of total translation competence as the first stage. The experiment for this purpose was conducted on a group of Iranian undergraduate students comprising of their exposure to a targeted sy...

The notion of Translation Quality Assessment has been the object of many studies. TQA as the compre- hensive treatment of translation evaluation, focuses on the relationship between the source text and target text and also emphasizes that translation is a linguistic operation. To accomplish this research, House‟s model of TQA was chosen as the framework for the investigation ...

Existing translation quality assessment (TQA) metrics have a few major drawbacks: they are often subjective, their scope is limited to the sentence level, and they do not take the translation situation into account. Though suitable for a general assessment, they lack the granularity needed to compare different methods of translation and their respective translation problems. In an attempt to so...

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a prospective near-term due to its modest circuit depth and promising benchmarks. However, an external parameter required in QAOA could become performance bottleneck. This motivates studies of the landscape search for heuristic ways initialization. In this work we visualize applied MaxCut problem on random graphs, demonstrating that initi...

A great deal of research effort has been expended in support of natural language (NL) database querying. English and English-like query systems already exist, such as ROBOT[Ha77], TQA[Da78], LUNAREWo76] and those described by Kaplan[Ka79], Walker[Wa78] and Waltz[Wa75]. Little effort has gone to NL database update [KD81, Br81, Sk80, CHSI]. We want to extend l~ interaction to include data modific...

This paper presents a statistical summary of the use of the Transformational Question Answering (TQA) system by the City of White Plains Planning Department during the year 1978. A complete record of the 788 questions submitted to the system that year is included, as are separate listings of some of the problem inputs. Tables summarizing the performance of the system are also included and discu...

the present study assessed the construct validity and reliability of a researcher-constructed psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the communicative theory of translation proposed by pacte (2003). in doing so, the necessary criteria for designing the scale were obtained by a thorough review of related literature on previously constructed scales in error analysis or holistic ones. moreover, in ...