This paper describes the submission of the UGENT-LT3 SCATE system to the WMT16 Shared Task on Quality Estimation (QE), viz. English-German word and sentence-level QE. Based on the observation that the data set is homogeneous (all sentences belong to the IT domain), we performed bilingual terminology extraction and added features derived from the resulting term list to the well-performing featur...

This paper estimates international spillover e§ects of US Quantitative Easing (QE) on emerging market economies. Using a Bayesian VAR on monthly US macroeconomic and financial data, we first identify the US QE shock with non-recursive identifying restrictions. This identified shock is then used in another Bayesian panel VAR for emerging market economies to infer the international spillover e§ec...

An anisotropy in the quantum e ciency (QE) has been observed in photoemission from strained GaAs photocathodes excited by linearly polarized light. The wavelength dependence of the anisotropy is closely correlated with that of the electron-spin polarization. Based on a theoretical analysis, we show that the QE anisotropy is caused by an inplane strain anisotropy arising from anisotropic strain ...

This paper uses a simple money demand and supply framework to estimate the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on asset prices and nominal spending. We use standard money accounting to try to establish the impact of asset purchases on broad money holdings. We show that the initial impact of £200 billion of asset purchases on the money supply was partially offset by other ‘shocks’ to the money su...

Quantitative epigenetics (QE) is a new area of research that combines some of the techniques developed for global quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping analyses with epigenetic analyses. Quantitative traits such as height vary, not in a discrete or discontinuous fashion, but continuously, usually in a normal distribution. QTL analyses assume that allelic DNA sequence variation in a population i...

In this paper we propose to exploit the automatic Quality Estimation (QE) of ASR hypotheses to perform the unsupervised adaptation of a deep neural network modeling acoustic probabilities. Our hypothesis is that significant improvements can be achieved by: i) automatically transcribing the evaluation data we are currently trying to recognise, and ii) selecting from it a subset of “good quality”...

This work presents a novel approach to Automatic Post-Editing (APE) and WordLevel Quality Estimation (QE) using ensembles of specialized Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. Word-level features that have proven effective for QE are included as input factors, expanding the representation of the original source and the machine translation hypothesis, which are used to generate an automatical...

The optical constants of thin films of CsI, KI, and KBr and the quantum efficiency (QE) of planar photocathodes made with these alkali halides in the 53.6-174.4-nm spectral range are presented. The optical constants were obtained from measurements of the reflectance as a function of incidence angle. The effect of film heating and exposure to UV irradiation on the optical properties and on the Q...

This paper presents the proposed Query Expansion (QE) techniques based on Khmer specific characteristics to improve the retrieval performance of Khmer Information Retrieval (IR) system. Four types of Khmer specific characteristics: spelling variants, synonyms, derivative words and reduplicative words have been investigated in this research. In order to evaluate the effectiveness and the efficie...