Using a Wizard of Oz as a Baseline to Determine Which System Architecture Is the Best for a Spoken Language Translation System

Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007. Editors: Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek and Mare Koit. University of Tartu, Tartu, 2007. ISBN 978-9985-4-0513-0 (online) ISBN 978-9985-4-0514-7 (CD-ROM) pp. 261-264

Evaluating Multilingual Gisting of Web Pages

We describe a prototype system for multilingual gisting of Web pages, and present an evaluation methodology based on the notion of gisting as decision support. This evaluation paradigm is straightforward, rigorous, permits fair comparison of alternative approaches, and should easily generalize to evaluation in other situations where the user is faced with decision-making on the basis of information in restricted or alternative form.Comment: 7 pages, uses psfig and aaai style

Україна – Канада: сучасні наукові студії

The materials of the international collective monograph show the latest Ukrainian-Canadian socio-political, historical, philological, cultural, educational and pedagogical research in the field of modern Canadian Studies. The monograph includes the investigations by several scientists from Ukraine and Canada (from Edmonton, Lutsk, Kyiv, Lviv, and Sumy). Such publication comes out in Ukraine for the first time. For scholars, postgraduates and doctoral students, undergraduates and lecturers of the faculties of international relations, foreign philology, history, political science, philology and journalism, education and social work, Canadian centres in Ukraine and centres of Ukrainian Studies in Canada, as well as for anyone interested in research of Ukrainian-Canadian relations

Is machine language translation a viable tool for health communication?

Chapters in this book aim to fill in a persistent knowledge gap in current multicultural health research, that is, culturally effective and user-oriented healthcare translation.Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psycholog

Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP: A Report on the First BlackboxNLP Workshop

The EMNLP 2018 workshop BlackboxNLP was dedicated to resources and techniques specifically developed for analyzing and understanding the inner-workings and representations acquired by neural models of language. Approaches included: systematic manipulation of input to neural networks and investigating the impact on their performance, testing whether interpretable knowledge can be decoded from intermediate representations acquired by neural networks, proposing modifications to neural network architectures to make their knowledge state or generated output more explainable, and examining the performance of networks on simplified or formal languages. Here we review a number of representative studies in each category

I can has thesis? a linguistic analysis of lolspeak

Lolspeak, which I characterize as an internet dialect of English that is used in conjunction with images of cats, exhibits distinctive variations and patterns which differ from those of standard English. Lolspeak has influenced other language use and may have a significant impact on the English language, due in part to the internet’s role in the evolution of English (Crystal “Language and the Internet,” 2006:26-27). To approach this data, I created a multi-modal discourse transcription technique for analyzing Lolspeak utterances within the context of their images based on Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss “The Discovery of Grounded Theory” 2007:9). I implemented this technique with randomly collected Lolspeak data that I collected from the website www.icanhascheezburger.com. My work has dual future implications in that it could be used to further studies of Lolspeak or other internet dialects/ languages, and the transcription method I have invented could be beneficial to those looking at other forms of multi-modal discourse

Comics That Cross the Line: The Transnational Narrative Work of Latin American Voices

This paper compares comics and the testimonial novel in order to analyze how both genres bring marginalized voices to light. It builds on existing theories of testimony, representation, and subalternity to explore both testimonials and ethnographic comics and analyzes how marginal subaltern subjects speak and are translated by an amanuensis. This project demonstrates how both types of texts feature silences, breaks, and empty spaces that require the participation of the reader in the creation of meaning. The structures of feeling that stem from reader participation allow for new communities to emerge. The time period studied in this paper begins in 1960 with the publication of Miguel Barnet\u27s seminal testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave, followed by the 1983 publication of I, Rigoberta Menchú, and extends to the present day and the ongoing production of migrant comics. The study looks at the collaborative storytelling project undertaken by partners of the Vermont Open Door Clinic to create comics based on the experiences of the nearly 1200 Latin American migrants here in Vermont. Through an in-depth analysis of comics panels based on the stories of both Mexican and Guatemalan migrants, the paper explores how these largely unseen, unheard migrants are given a voice through the text of the comics and how the comics serve to narrate the loss and trauma inherent in migration. By combining comics theory and traditional subaltern theory the paper shows how comics can shed new light on decades-old discussions regarding the testimonial. The structure of comics, which combines words and images as well as gutters, or blank framing spaces, creates powerful new ways to discuss memory, history, and the act of migration

A Discourse Analysis of Lexical Cohesion on Naila Farhana’s Videos

The study sought to investigate the lexical cohesion in three YouTube videos by Naila Farhana, "Language Learning when you are an Introvert," "This useful language translation hack will help you!" and "Change your life! Benefits of Learning English Language". Farhana is known as an Indonesian YouTuber engaged in Languages. Through her video, the study analyzed Farhana's utterances on some topics based on lexical cohesion elements. Moreover, this study is concerned with Farhana's consistency, properly using lexical cohesion based, and finding out which lexical cohesion is the most dominant. Since to produce good writing and speech, it needs to pay attention when used to make the reader or listener not misunderstand. The research method was a qualitative description of the YouTube transcript to analyze the lexical cohesion devices. The results showed that the most dominant lexical cohesion of Farhana's three Youtube videos was Collocation of 36.93%. In addition, the study found Farhana's consistency in using lexical cohesion seen in the percentage of using the correct type of lexical cohesion reached from Halliday and Hasan's theory