Types of translation demand When giving any general overview of the development and use of machine translation (MT) systems and translation tools, it is important to distinguish four basic types of translation demand. The first, and traditional one, is the demand for translations of a quality normally expected from human translators, i.e. translations of publishable quality – whether actually p...

OBJECTIVE This paper details the development and application of a Virtual Environment for Reconstructive Surgery (VERS). It addresses the technical and user-interface challenges in developing such a system, and the lessons learned during application of the system in the case of a 17-year-old boy with a severe facial defect arising from the removal of a soft-tissue sarcoma. MATERIALS AND METHO...

We examine deployment strategies for text translation and text summarization tasks. We formalize a deployment strategy along three dimensions: work structure, workforce organization, and work style. Work structure can be either simultaneous or sequential, workforce organization independent or collaborative, and work style either crowd-only or hybrid. We use Amazon Mechanical Turk to evaluate th...

In this paper, we show our results on the bi-directional data exchange between the F-logic language supported by the Flora2 system and the OWL language. Most of the TBox and ABox axioms are translated preserving the semantics between the two representations, such as: proper inclusion, individual definition, functional properties, while some axioms and restrictions require a change in the semant...

This paper addresses automatic transformation from spoken style texts to written style texts. Exact transcriptions and speech recognition results of live lectures include many spoken language expressions, and thus, are not suitable for documents and need to be edited. In this paper, we present a method of applying of the statistical approach used in machine translation to this post-processing t...

International trade between nations is expanding as a result of the development economic globalization. Advertising type appealing text that plays an important role in promoting products, attracting consumers, and establishing brand image. Among large number transnational corporations, English-to-Chinese translation advertising Apple Inc. has distinctive characteristics, “Apple-style Chinese” p...

Links is a programming language for web applications that generates code for all three tiers of a web application from a single source, compiling into JavaScript to run on the client and into SQL to run on the database. Links supports rich clients running in what has been dubbed ‘Ajax’ style, and supports concurrent processes with statically-typed message passing. Links is scalable in the sense...