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Linguistic Structure in Statistical Machine Translation
This thesis investigates the influence of linguistic structure in statistical machine translation. We develop a word reordering model based on syntactic parse trees and address the issues of pronouns and morphological agreement with a source discriminative word lexicon predicting the translation for individual words using structural features. When used in phrase-based machine translation, the models improve the translation for language pairs with different word order and morphological variation
Anarchy in the Unity: Compositional and Aesthetic Tensions in Mauricio Kagel\u27s Antithese fĂŒr einen Darsteller mit elektronischen und öffentlichen KlĂ€ngen (1962)
In 1962 the Argentine-German composer Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008) completed an innovative multimedia/interdisciplinary piece, Antithese fĂŒr einen Darsteller mit elektronischen und öffentlichen KlĂ€ngen. The unique compositional style and formal structure consisting of heterogeneous compositional components reflected his profound insights into issues inherent in postwar avant-garde music. Kagel remarked strikingly that âanarchy in the piece was omnipresent.â Indeed, his use of the term âanarchyâ is a keystone not only of the structural features of Antithese, but also of Kagelâs aesthetic of music in the piece. The present study seeks to reveal Kagelâs idea of anarchy in musical context and how he attempts to epitomize this particular thought in the complex and transliterate formal structure of Antithese.
This study first reviews Kagelâs Buenos Aires period in terms of the cultivation and development of his musical composition and notion of anarchy. The review also incorporates problematic aspects of postwar new music in Europe which emerged in the period chronologically parallel to Kagelâs Argentinian era. The next stage deals with Kagelâs engagement in electroacoustic composition in Germany and the development of his own compositional method and style in its realm, where he consciously distanced himself from controversy between Parisian musique concrĂšte and Cologne elektronische Musik.
Because Antithese is a unique form of Instrumental Theater â a compositional approach Kagel invented â and a piece he dedicated to John Cage, this study examines distinctive features of Kagelâs theatricalization in the piece in contrast to his other theatrical pieces, as well as to Cageâs musical theater work. This examination clarifies the aesthetic distinction between Kagel and Cage which underlies their theatrical-theoretical differences. Intriguing in terms of compositional aesthetic content is that Antithese encompasses Kagelâs serial thought and an approach of GrenzĂŒberschreitung of art genres which may seem antithetical in compositional-characteristic terms. This feature suggests that a latent part of his aesthetic intention was to create tension as a concealed component derived from the coexistence of heterogeneous ideas and elements on various levels of Antitheseâs complex structure. Indeed, tension, as an indispensable element of the piece, is a key to deciphering Kagelâs notion of anarchy in music