This paper presents an abstract interpretation to support the automatic parallelization of iterative constructs. The analysis approximates the range of values of any array subscript by integrating an interval analysis with one returning a set of simple linear restraints among program variables. To reduce the complexity of the analysis, a general methodology has been adopted that defines two dif...

We present a hypnogram generator fully written in Matlab/Octave programming languages. Our software extracts data from brainwaves during sleep and then classifies wave stretches according to their predominant frequency. Differently from other programs, which rely on heavily numerical data analyses, our approach is the plain shape analysis of the waves. For this purpose we focus on properties of...

We have developed an automatic interpretation system running on a mobile PC that helps oral communication between Japanese and English speakers in various situations during their travel abroad. In order to allow a wide range of expressions and topics in the applied domain, we adopted an approach which utilizes the general linguistic knowledge as well as the domainspecific linguistic knowledge. ...

The English ’s possessive construction occurs frequently in text and can encode several different semantic relations; however, it has received limited attention from the computational linguistics community. This paper describes the creation of a semantic relation inventory covering the use of ’s, an inter-annotator agreement study to calculate how well humans can agree on the relations, a large...

Semi-automatic image interpretation systems utilize interactions between users and computers to adapt and update interpretation algorithms. We have studied the influence of human inputs on the image interpretation by examining several knowledge transfer models. Experimental results show that the quality of system performance depended not only on the knowledge transfer patterns but also on the u...

We present a novel approach to metaphor interpretation and a system that produces literal paraphrases for metaphorical expressions. Such a representation is directly transferable to other applications that can benefit from a metaphor processing component. Our method is distinguished from the previous work in that it does not rely on any hand-crafted knowledge about metaphor, but in contrast emp...

Simultaneous interpretation allows people to communicate spontaneously across language boundaries, but such services are prohibitively expensive for the general public. This paper presents a fully automatic simultaneous interpretation system to address this problem. Though the development is still at an early stage, the system is capable of keeping up with the fastest of the TED speakers while ...

This paper describes a procedure for a multitemporal interpretation of vegetation areas in Brazil using Landsat TM images. We started with a monotemporal interpretation of the first epoch of the scene by using both spectral and structural features. For interpretation of temporal changes we discretely described temporal conditions of regions, and transferred the most probable temporal changes of...

In this paper, we investigate automatic model learning for the interpretation of complex scenes with structured objects. We present a learning, interpretation, and evaluation cycle for processing such scenes. By including learning and interpretation in one framework, an evaluation and feedback learning is enabled that takes interpretation challenges like context and combination of diverse types...