Josephus elevates Moses' role and diminishes the miraculous in the Amalek episode. In the Pentateuch Josephus, defensive about the charge that Jews preach genocide, omits the command to eliminate Amalek; rather, Moses predicts it. In 1 Samuel he explains that G-d so hated them as to order it. As to the parallel command to exterminate the seven Canaanite nations, this was necessary, says Josephu...

This paper presents a finite-state approach to phrase-based statistical machine translation where a log-linear modelling framework is implemented by means of an on-the-fly composition of weighted finite-state transducers. Moses, a well-known state-of-the-art system, is used as a machine translation reference in order to validate our results by comparison. Experiments on the TED corpus achieve a...

This paper describes our Statistical Machine Translation systems for the WMT09 (en:fr) shared task. For this evaluation, we have developed four systems, using two different MT Toolkits: our primary submission, in both directions, is based on Moses, boosted with contextual information on phrases, and is contrasted with a conventional Moses-based system. Additional contrasts are based on the Ncod...

In Exodus 2, Moses has two mothers; his Hebrew mother, who nurses him and the daughter of Pharaoh, financially supports adopts him, names him. Pharaoh’s appears in scholarly discussions, yet little attention is given to her role as mother Moses. Indeed, this motherhood downplayed biblical texts, also scholarship, wherein Pharaoh absent from many discussions mothers at times relegated beneath bi...

We present a method to incorporate target-language syntax in the form of Combinatory Categorial Grammar in the Hierarchical Phrase-Based MT system. We adopt the approach followed by Syntax Augmented Machine Translation (SAMT) to attach syntactic categories to nonterminals in hierarchical rules, but instead of using constituent grammar, we take advantage of the rich syntactic information and fle...

Halpern and Moses [Halpern & Moses, 84] define and characterize what a minimal epistemic state associated to a set of premises is, using the notions of stable set and S5Kripke models. Based on such epistemic states, Halpern and Moses define an entailment relation with which one can infer what is known and, more importantly, what is unknown by an agent. In this paper we formulate an extension of...