In this paper, we describe a bilingual corpus processing strategy, block analysis, from a new point of view. By this analysis strategy, we want to extract more information from bilingual corpus for future statistical machine translation. At first, we define some block types and give some statistical data from a Chinese-English bilingual corpus under this framework. Then a block-based alignment ...

Bilingual terminology dictionaries are resources of much practical importance in many application of bilingual NLP. Because technical terminology can be both very specific and rapidly evolving, it can however be difficult to obtain dictionaries with good coverage. Mining automatically such terminology from technical documents is therefore an attractive possibility. With this goal in mind, and f...

In this paper, we propose a new learning method for extracting bilingual word pairs from parallel corpora in various languages. In cross-language information retrieval, the system must deal with various languages. Therefore, automatic extraction of bilingual word pairs from parallel corpora with various languages is important. However, previous works based on statistical methods are insufficien...

BACKGROUND Despite a growing clinical need, there are no clear guidelines on assessment of lexical access in the two languages in individuals with bilingual aphasia. Objective. In this study, we examined the influence of language proficiency on three tasks requiring lexical access in English and Spanish bilingual normal controls and in bilingual individuals with aphasia. METHODS 12 neurologic...

BACKGROUND Bilingualism results in an added advantage with respect to cognitive control. The interaction between bilingual language control and general purpose cognitive control systems can also be understood by studying executive control among individuals with bilingual aphasia. objectives: The current study examined the subcomponents of cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. A case study app...