BULAG 38

This special number of the BULAG contains 9 research papers of special merit written by students of the 4th intake (2011) of the European Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology. The papers have been written as a requirement of the students’ research projects which they presented at the 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, June 20-21, 2013. Research themes: mathematical formalisation (1 paper); text applications (3 papers): optical character recognition, definition extraction, opinion mining; machine translation (5 papers): textual entailment across languages, noun phrases in technical corpora, syntactic simplification, collocation retrieval, film subtitles. Languages studied: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Romanian and Spanish.

Presentation

Sylviane Cardey

Detecting Textual Entailment across Languages with Similarity Measures and Machine Translation

Daria Brazhnikova

Towards an English-Romanian Machine Translation Prototype for the Translation of Noun Phrases in Technical Corpora

Raluca-Sînziana Bujoreanu

Syntactic Simplification for Machine Translation

José Camacho Collados

Khmer Optical Character Recognition System

Sovann En

A Definition Extraction System for Scientific Interviews

Luis Espinosa Anke

A Framework for Collocation Retrieval and Translation from Parallel and Comparable Corpora

Oscar Mendoza

Opinion Mining for Data Journalism

Jacopo Ottaviani

Automatically Building Translation Memories for Subtitling

Katherin Perez Rojas

Towards a Mathematical Formalisation of Microsystemic Linguistic Analysis

Elizabeth Rodríguez Sánchez