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...

This paper reconsiders the task of MRDbased word sense disambiguation, in extending the basic Lesk algorithm to investigate the impact onWSD performance of different tokenisation schemes, scoring mechanisms, methods of gloss extension and filtering methods. In experimentation over the Lexeed Sensebank and the Japanese Senseval2 dictionary task, we demonstrate that character bigrams with sense-s...

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 ...

In this paper, we address the question, ’~/hat types of MT divergences and mismatches must be accommodated in the lexicon?" In our work, we have focused on the treatment of divergences and mismatches in an interlingual (as opposed to a tranfer-based) MT system. In such systems, one uses monolingual lexicons for each of the language under consideration, so divergences and mismatches are not hand...

We present a prototype interlingual communication system that is being used to collect a corpus of task based dialogues between speakers of different languages. This corpus will be used to assess human reactions to an automated speech-to-speech translation system. In this demonstration we show how the HCRC Map Task can be adapted to support data collection in this interlingual environment, and ...

Opadry® II 1 Influence of Film Coating Process Parameters on the Gloss of Tablets Coated with Pigmented Aqueous Film Coating Formulations PURPOSE A common practice for enhancing the gloss of coated tablets is the application of a clear top-coat after applying a pigmented coating layer. In a recent study, substantial increases in tablet gloss were achieved using this multiple step approach.1 It ...

The amount and spectral content of the light reflected by most natural surfaces depends on the structure of the light field, the observer's viewing position, and 3D surface geometry, particularly for specular (glossy) surfaces. A growing body of data has demonstrated that perceived surface gloss can vary as a function of its 3D shape and its illumination field, but there is currently no explana...