Academia Sinica

Publication List Details

Period

2001 - 2009

Number

23

Co-Authors

Extending Automated Compositional Verification to the Full Class of Omega-Regular Languages ⋆ (2009)

Azadeh Farzan, Yu-fang Chen, Edmund M. Clarke, Yih-kuen Tsay, Bow-yaw Wang, Academia Sinica

Abstract. Recent studies have suggested the applicability of learning to automated compositional verification. However, current learning algorithms fall short when it comes to learning liveness...

The Sinica Sense Management System: Design and Implementation Chu-Ren Huang, Chun-ling Chen, Cui-Xia Weng, and Keh-jiann Chen (2008)

Academia Sinica

It has been a trend for language engineering to construct a sense-based lexical knowledgebase as a core foundation. WordNet and Euro WordNet are two well-known examples. There are two important...

DOI: 10.1007/s10579-007-9041-9 (2008)

Academia Sinica, Takenobu Tokunaga

Asian language processing presents formidable challenges to achieving multilingualism and multiculturalism in our society. One of the first and most obvious challenges is the multitude and diversity...

AN EXTENSION OF THE HARDY-LITTLEWOOD (2008)

Strong Law, Zhidong Bai, Philip E. Cheng, Cun-hui Zhang, National Sun, Academia Sinica

Abstract: A strong law is established for linear statistics that are weighted sums of a random sample. Using an observation of Cheng (1995a) about the Bernstein and Kolmogorov inequalities, we...

Reconstruction of Proto-Qiang Verb Inflection ∗ (2008)

Jonathan Evans, Academia Sinica

Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of China, has been subdivided into two major dialects based on the feature [+/- tone]. However, the presence or absence of tone in Qiang is more of a measure of...

Knowledge-Rich Approach to Automatic Grammatical Information Acquisition: Enriching Chinese Sketch Engine with a Lexical Grammar (2008)

Chu-ren Huang, Wei-yun Ma, Yi-ching Wu, Academia Sinica

This paper discusses the implementation of a knowledge-rich approach to automatic acquisition of grammatical information. Our study is based on Word Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff and Tudgell 2002). The...

Reverse Long-distance Dependency and Functional Uncertainty- The Interpretation of Mandarin Questions (2008)

Chu-ren Huang, Academia Sinica

Mandarin Chinese WH-questions exhibit two syntactically interesting characteristics. First, WH-words that bear interrogative information always occur in situ. Second, in spite the above fact, I find...

Extracting Recurrent Phrases and Terms from Texts Using a Purely Statistical Method (2008)

Zhao-ming Gao, Harold Somers, Academia Sinica

Most statistical measures for extracting interesting word pairs such as MI and t-score require a large corpus to work well. This paper evaluates some of the most widely used statistical measures and...

Knowledge-Rich Approach to Automatic Grammatical Information Acquisition: Enriching Chinese Sketch Engine with a Lexical Grammar (2008)

Chu-ren Huang, Wei-yun Ma, Yi-ching Wu, Academia Sinica

This paper discusses the implementation of a knowledge-rich approach to automatic acquisition of grammatical information. Our study is based on Word Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff and Tudgell 2002). The...

Automatic Acquisition of a High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel Chinese-English Corpora (2008)

Academia Sinica

This paper presents a hybrid approach to deriving a translation lexicon from unaligned parallel Chinese-English corpora. Based on the observation that the English translation of a Chinese compound...

Morphological Transparency and Autonomous Morphology A Comparative Study of Tough Constructions and (2008)

Academia Sinica

This paper studies the nominalization of tough predicates in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and English, The emphasis in on Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin offers one of the most challenging testing grounds...

Passage Retrieval (2008)

Cheng-wei Lee, Cheng-wei Shih, Min-yuh Day, Tzong-han Tsai, Tian-jian Jiang, Chia-wei Wu, ...

We propose a hybrid architecture for the NTCIR-5 CLQA C-C (Cross Language Question Answering from Chinese to Chinese) Task. Our system, the

AND (2008)

Hagit Attiya, Alan Fekete, Unilersc Of Sydney, Michael Fischer, Yale Uni ‘ersi, New Ha Len, ...

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Institute of Information Science, (2007)

Chun-shien Lu, Shih-kun Huang, Chwen-jye Sze, Academia Sinica

A novel image protection scheme called "cocktail watermarking " is proposed in this paper. We analyze and point out the inadequacy of the modulation techniques commonly used in...

Expected measure of the union of random rectangles Chern-Ching Chao, Hsien-Kuei Hwang and Wen-Qi Liang (2007)

Academia Sinica

An asymptotic expression for the expected area of the union of n random rectangles is derived by Mellin transforms, where their two diagonal corners are independently and uniformly distributed over...

Asymptotic Operating Characteristics of an Optimal Change Point Detection in Hidden Markov Models (2003)

Cheng-Der Fuh, Academia Sinica

this paper we investigate the performance of the Shiryayev-Roberts-Pollak (SRP) rule for change point detection in the dynamic system of hidden Markov models. By making use of Markov chain...

Estimating Comparable Scores Using Surrogate Variables (2001)

Michelle Liou, Philip E. Cheng, Ming-yen Li, Michelle Liou, Philip E. Cheng, Academia Sinica

The possibility of using surrogate variables (e.g., school grades, other test scores, examinee background information) as replacements for common items predicting sample-selection bias between groups...

A New Watermarking Technique for Multimedia Protection

Chun-Shien Lu, Shih-kun Huang, Chwen-jye Sze, Academia Sinica

A robust watermarking scheme for hiding binary or gray-scale watermarks in digital images is proposed in this chapter. Motivated by the fact that a detector response (a correlation value) only...

A New Watermarking Technique for Multimedia Protection

Chun-shien Lu, Shih-kun Huang, Chwen-jye Sze, Academia Sinica

A robust watermarking scheme for hiding binary or gray-scale watermarks in digital images is proposed in this chapter. Motivated by the fact that a detector response (a correlation value) only...