BULAG 39

This special number contains 10 research papers of special merit written by students of the 5th intake (2012) of the Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology as a requirement of their research projects which they presented at the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Universidade do Algarve, June 19-20, 2014. Themes: spoken language (2 papers), word segmentation (1 paper), named entities (2 papers), machine translation (3 papers), metaphorical language (1 paper) and language resources (1 paper). Languages studied: English, French, Khmer, Montenegrin, Serbian, Ukrainian and Urdu.

Presentation

Sylviane Cardey

Named Entity Recognition in the Serbian Language: the Organisation Category

Božidar Bukilić

Segmental Discrepancies between Speakers of Different Accents: Implications for Accent Conversion Research and Development

Calvin Cheng

Creation of a Dictionary of Pragmatemes for Machine Translation

Alison Daly

Machine Translation of Anthroponyms: English to Ukrainian Memory-Based Transliteration System

Tetiana Gerasymenko

Semantic Dictionary of Named Entities

Anubhav Gupta

Metaphorical Language Identification and Evaluation in English and French

Vlad Niculae

A Language Resource for Urdu: Morphological Description and the Development of a Machine-readable Lexicon for Processing Urdu

Abdul Qadir

Khmer Word Segmentation Using a Hybrid Method

Kim Cheng Sheang

Towards Better Match Retrieval in Translation Memory Systems

Katerina Raisa Timonera

Semiautomatic Detection of Pronunciation Variation to Improve American English Text-to-Speech Database Labelling Using Extended Label Inventory

Martin Patrick Tozer