We examined the time course of cross-language activation during word recognition in the context of semantic priming with interlingual homographs. Spanish-English bilinguals were presented pairs of English words visually one word at a time and judged whether the two words were related in meaning while recording event-related potentials. Interlingual homographs (e.g., "pie": "Pie" in Spanish is a...

To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

Verbmobil is a project sponsored by the German government, whose aim is to develop a translation system for face-to-face speech dialogue. This book is the report on a preliminary study of the project conducted by CSLI, Stanford University. The contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 contains introductory material; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are devoted to describing the current state-of-the...

We present a new bilingual FrameNet lexicon for English and German. It is created through a simple, but powerful approach to construct a FrameNet in any language using Wiktionary as an interlingual representation. Our approach is based on a sense alignment of FrameNet and Wiktionary, and subsequent translation disambiguation into the target language. We perform a detailed evaluation of the crea...

This is the Lump team participation at SemEval 2017 Task 1 on Semantic Textual Similarity. Our supervised model relies on features which are multilingual or interlingual in nature. We include lexical similarities, cross-language explicit semantic analysis, internal representations of multilingual neural networks and interlingual word embeddings. Our representations allow to use large datasets i...

In this paper we describe a manual case study in interlingual translation among ve languages. Taking theun Declaration of Human Rights in Chinese, English, German, Irish and Spanish, we annotated the ve texts with a common interlingual logical form. We then studied four inventories of semantic roles (developed for both theoretical andnlp applications), including a subset of unl's relations, and...

Verbmobil is a project sponsored by the German government, whose aim is to develop a translation system for face-to-face speech dialogue. This book is the report on a preliminary study of the project conducted by CSLI, Stanford University. The contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 contains introductory material; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are devoted to describing the current state-of-the...

The traditional defining characteristic of an Interlingua, according to Hutchins & Somers (p. 73), is that it "is neutral between two or more languages" so that, in principle, given a representation of an utterance in the Interlingua, the source language of the utterance cannot be determined from that representation. From this follow the other general features of an Interlingual MT system: the ...