Kenji Yamada

Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems (2009)

Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, Kenji Yamada

We study a number of natural language decipherment problems using unsupervised learning. These include letter substitution ciphers, character code conversion, phonetic decipherment, and word-based...

Constitutive and Inducible ER Bodies of Arabidopsis thaliana Accumulate Distinct {beta}-Glucosidases (2009)

Ogasawara, Kimi, Yamada, Kenji, Christeller, John T., Kondo, Maki, Hatsugai, Noriyuki, Hara-Nishimura, Ikuko, ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) body is an ER-related organelle that accumulates high levels of PYK10, a β-glucosidase with an ER retention signal. Constitutive ER bodies are present in the epidermal...

Katherine Eng (2008)

Kenji Yamada, Stanford U, Alex Fraser, Daniel Gildea, Viren Jain

We describe a methodology for rapid experimentation in statistical machine translation which we use to add a large number of features to a baseline system exploiting features from a wide range of...

The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks (2008)

Hal Daumé Iii, Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde-geary, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

The parsing community has long recognized the importance of lexicalized models of syntax. By contrast, these models do not appear to have had an impact on the statistical NLG community. To prove...

System Demonstration JAPANGLOSS: USING STATISTICS TO FILL KNOWLEDGE GAPS IN MT (2008)

Kevin Knight, Yaser Al-onaizan, Ishwar Ch, Eduard Hovy, Irene Langkilde, Richard Whitney, ...

Hardware and Software: LISP, C, Unix scripts running on Sun Spare 10 and scanner Functionality Description: General-purpose Japanese-English MT Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) techniques...

Katherine Eng (2008)

Kenji Yamada, Stanford U, Alex Fraser, Daniel Gildea, Viren Jain

We describe a methodology for rapid experimentation in statistical machine translation which we use to add a large number of features to a baseline system exploiting features from a wide range of...

© 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Translation with Scarce Bilingual Resources (2008)

Yaser Al-onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

Abstract. Machine translation of human languages is a field almost as old as computers themselves. Recent approaches to this challenging problem aim at learning translation knowledge automatically...

© 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Translation with Scarce Bilingual Resources (2008)

Yaser Al-onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

Abstract. Machine translation of human languages is a field almost as old as computers themselves. Recent approaches to this challenging problem aim at learning translation knowledge automatically...

The qqbar S-wave axial-vector mesons in the covariant U~(12)-scheme (2007)

Maeda, Tomohito, Yamada, Kenji, Oda, Masuho, Ishida, Shin

We study the properties of axial vector mesons a1 and b1 as relativistic S-wave states which are predicted in the U~(12)-scheme, through the analyses of their radiative and pionic decays....

On the Existence of Light-Scalar Mesons kappa(800) and kappa'(1150): The U~(12) Scheme and BES II Data (2007)

Yamada, Kenji, Maeda, Tomohito

We present that there should exist a light strange-scalar meson kappa', in addition to the kappa(800), which has a mass around 1.1-1.2 GeV, a rather narrow width, and couples strongly to...

Katherine Eng (2007)

Kenji Yamada, Stanford U, Alex Fraser, Daniel Gildea, Viren Jain

We describe a methodology for rapid experimentation in statistical machine translation which we use to add a large number of features to a baseline system exploiting features from a wide range of...

Machine Translation 17: 1--17, 2002. (2007)

Translation With Scarce, Yaser Al-onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, ...

Machine translation of human languages is a field almost as old as computers themselves. Recent approaches to this challenging problem aim at learning translation knowledge automatically (or...

The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks (2007)

Daynem III, Hal, Knight, Kevin, Langkilde-Geary, Irene, Marcu, Daniel, Yamada, Kenji

The parsing community has long recognized the importance of lexicalized models of syntax. By contrast, these models do not appear to have had an impact on the statistical NLG community. To prove...

Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation (2007)

Germann, Ulrich, Jahr, Michael, Knight, Kevin, Marcu, Daniel, Yamada, Kenji

A good decoding algorithm is critical to the success of any statistical machine translation system. The decoder's job is to find the translation that is most likely according to set of previously...

Properties of the Ground-State q bar q Mesons and Possible Classification of Observed Mesons in the U~(12)_SF X O(3,1)_L Scheme (2006)

Yamada, Kenji

We examine possible assignments for known mesons to the predicted ground-state q bar q multiplets in the U~(12)_SF-classification scheme of hadrons, based on their observed properties. The masses of...

Radiative Decays of q bar q Chiral States in the U~(12)-Scheme (2006)

Maeda, Tomohito, Yamada, Kenji, Oda, Masuho, Ishida, Shin

The radiative transitions between ground-states (GS) of light q bar q mesons are investigated in the U~(12)-scheme. In this scheme the rich decay-spectra are offered even in transition between GS due...

Chiral Mass Splitting for c \bar{s} and c \bar{n} Mesons in the \tilde{U}(12)-Classification Scheme of Hadrons (2005)

Yamada, Kenji, Maeda, Tomohito, Ishida, Shin

We investigate the chiral mass splitting of parity-doubled J=0,1 states for c \bar{s} and c \bar{n} meson systems in the \tilde{U}(12)_{SF}-classification scheme of hadrons, using the linear sigma...

Translating with non-contiguous phrases (2005)

Simard, Michel, Cancedda, Nicola, Cavestro, Bruno, Dymetman, Marc, Gaussier, Eric, Goutte, Cyril, ...

This paper presents a phrase-based statistical machine translation method, based on non-contiguous phrases, i.e. phrases with gaps. A method for producing such phrases from a word-aligned corpora is...

Translating with non-contiguous phrases (2005)

Michel Simard, Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, ...

This paper presents a phrase-based statistical machine translation method, based on non-contiguous phrases, i.e. phrases with gaps. A method for producing such phrases from a word-aligned corpora is...

Translating with non-contiguous phrases (2005)

Michel Simard, Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, ...

This paper presents a phrase-based statistical machine translation method, based on non-contiguous phrases, i.e. phrases with gaps. A method for producing such phrases from a word-aligned corpora is...

The DsJ*(2317) and DsJ(2460) mesons in U~(12)-classification scheme of hadrons (2004)

Ishida, Shin, Ishida, Muneyuki, Maeda, Tomohito, Oda, Masuho, Yamada, Kenji

The narrow mesons, DsJ*(2317) and DsJ(2460), observed recently in the final states Ds+ pi0 and Ds*+ pi0 are pointed out to be naturally assigned as the ground-state scalar and axial-vector chiral...

Aligning words using matrix factorisation (2004)

Goutte, Cyril, Yamada, Kenji, Gaussier, Eric

Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projection of linguistic...

Final report of johns hopkins 2003 summer workshop on syntax for statistical machine translation (2004)

Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, ...

In recent evaluations of machine translation systems, statistical systems have outperformed classical approaches based on interpretation, transfer, and generation. Nonetheless, the output of...

Final report of johns hopkins 2003 summer workshop on syntax for statistical machine translation (2004)

Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, ...

In recent evaluations of machine translation systems, statistical systems have outperformed classical approaches based on interpretation, transfer, and generation. Nonetheless, the output of...

Aligning words using matrix factorisation (2004)

Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier

Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projection of linguistic...

Final report of johns hopkins 2003 summer workshop on syntax for statistical machine translation (2004)

Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, ...

In recent evaluations of machine translation systems, statistical systems have outperformed classical approaches based on interpretation, transfer, and generation. Nonetheless, the output of...

Aligning words using matrix factorisation (2004)

Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier

Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projection of linguistic...

Candidates for Chiral Particles (2003)

Yamada, Kenji

We find possible candidates for the new type of q bar q meson, mesonic chiralons, whose existence is predicted in the covariant level-classification scheme of hadrons with U(12)_SF * O(3,1)_L...

The Ds(2317) and Ds(2463) Mesons as Scalar and Axial-Vector Chiralons in the Covariant Level-Classification Scheme (2003)

Ishida, Shin, Ishida, Muneyuki, Komada, Toshihiko, Maeda, Tomohito, Oda, Masuho, Yamada, Kenji, ...

The new narrow mesons observed recently in the final states Ds+ pi0 and Ds*+ pi0 are pointed out to be naturally assigned as the ground-state scalar and axial-vector chiralons in the c sbar system,...

Reducing parameter space for word alignment (2003)

Herve Dejean, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada

hdejean,gaussier,cgoutte,kyamada¡ This paper presents the experimental results of our attemps to reduce the size of the parameter space in word alignment algorithm. We use IBM Model 4 as a baseline....

Reducing parameter space for word alignment (2003)

Herve Dejean, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada

hdejean,gaussier,cgoutte,kyamada¡ This paper presents the experimental results of our attemps to reduce the size of the parameter space in word alignment algorithm. We use IBM Model 4 as a baseline....

Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation (2003)

Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, Kenji Yamada

We present a syntax-based language model for use in noisy-channel machine translation. In particular, a language model based upon that described in (Cha01) is combined with the syntax based...

Towards Interactive Text Understanding (2003)

Marc Dymetman, Aurlien Max, Kenji Yamada

This position paper argues for an interactive approach to text understanding. The proposed model extends an existing semantics-based text authoring system by using the input text as a source of...

Reducing parameter space for word alignment (2003)

Herve Dejean, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada

hdejean,gaussier,cgoutte,kyamada¡ This paper presents the experimental results of our attemps to reduce the size of the parameter space in word alignment algorithm. We use IBM Model 4 as a baseline....

The ER Body, a Novel Endoplasmic Reticulum-Derived Structure in Arabidopsis (2003)

Matsushima, Ryo, Hayashi, Yasuko, Yamada, Kenji, Shimada, Tomoo, Nishimura, Mikio, Hara-Nishimura, Ikuko

Plant cells develop various endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-derived structures with specific functions. The ER body, a novel ER-derived compartment in Arabidopsis, is a spindle-shaped structure (~10 µm...

Possible Evidence for a Chiral Particle D_1chi, Axial-Vector in the D Meson System (2002)

Ito, Daiki, Ishida, Muneyuki, Ishida, Shin, Komada, Toshihiko, Tonooka, Hiroshi, Yamada, Kenji

In the covariant level-classification scheme of hadrons proposed recently, the existence of "chiral particles", scalar and axial-vector mesons as the partners of the ground-state pseudo-scalar and...

A syntax-based statistical translation model / (2002)

Yamada, Kenji.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2002.

The importance of lexicalized syntax models for natural language generation tasks (2002)

Hal Daumé Iii, Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde-geary, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

The parsing community has long recognized the importance of lexicalized models of syntax. By contrast, these models do not appear to have had an impact on the statistical NLG community. To prove...

A Decoder for Syntax-Based Statistical MT (2002)

Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight

This paper describes a decoding algorithm for a syntax-based translation model (Yamada and Knight, 2001). The model has been extended to incorporate phrasal translations as presented here. In...

The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks (2002)

Hal Daum Iii, Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde-geary, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

the importance of lexicalized models of syntax. By contrast, these models do not appear to have had an impact on the statistical NLG community. To prove their importance in NLG, we show that a...

Possible Evidence for a Chiral Axial-Vector State in the D Meson System (2001)

Yamada, Kenji, Ishida, Muneyuki, Ishida, Shin, Ito, Daiki, Komada, Toshihiko, Tonooka, Hiroshi

We reanalyze the D^{*+} pi^- mass spectrum from CLEO II by the VMW method in order to examine the existence of a chiral axial-vector state, which is predicted in a covariant level-classification...

A Syntax-Based Statistical Translation Model (2001)

Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight

We present a syntax-based statistical translation model. Our model transforms a source-language parse tree into a target-language string by applying stochastic operations at each node. These...

A Proteinase-Storing Body that Prepares for Cell Death or Stresses in the Epidermal Cells of Arabidopsis (2001)

Hayashi, Yasuko, Yamada, Kenji, Shimada, Tomoo, Matsushima, Ryo, Nishizawa, Naoko K., Nishimura, Mikio, ...

Plants degrade cellular materials during senescence and under various stresses. We report that the precursors of two stress-inducible cysteine proteinases, RD21 and a vacuolar processing enzyme...

Translating with Scarce Resources (2000)

Yaser Al-onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, ...

Current corpus-based machine translation techniques do not work very well when given scarce linguistic resources. To examine the gap between human and machine translators, we created an experiment in...

Fire Tolerance and the Fire-related Sprouting Characteristics of Two Cool-temperate Broad-leaved Tree Species (2000)

MASAKA, KAZUHIKO, OHNO, YASUYUKI, YAMADA, KENJI

This study was conducted in a secondary broad-leaved forest in northern Hokkaido, Japan, which burned on 20–21 April 1998. The study plot, set up on 13 July 1998, contained Quercus mongolica var....

Synthesis of Vinyl Ether-Based Polymacromonomers with Well-Controlled Structure (ORGANIC MATERIALS CHEMISTRY-Polymeric Materials) (1999)

Minoda, Masahiko, Yamada, Kenji, Miyazaki, Masayuki, Ohno, Kohji, Fukuda, Takeshi, Miyamoto, Takeaki

The present paper focuses on the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of vinyl ether (VE)- based macromonomers with a methacryloyl group at the chain end. Living cationic polymerization of...

A Computational Approach to Deciphering Unknown Scripts (1999)

Kevin Knight, Kenji Yamada

We propose and evaluate computational techniques for deciphering unknown scripts. We focus on the case in which an unfamiliar script encodes a known language. The decipherment of a brief document or...

A Controlled Skip Parser (1996)

Kenji Yamada

Real-world natural language sentences are long and complex, and always contain unexpected grammatical constructions. It even includes noise and ungrammaticality. This paper describes the Controlled...

A Controlled Skip Parser (1996)

Kenji Yamada

Real-world natural language sentences are long and complex, and always contain unexpected grammatical constructions. It even includes noise and ungrammaticality. This paper describes the Controlled...

Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System (1995)

Knight, Kevin, Chander, Ishwar, Haines, Matthew, Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios, Hovy, Eduard, Iida, Masayo, ...

Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) techniques yield high quality in domains with detailed semantic models, limited vocabulary, and controlled input grammar. Scaling up along these dimensions...

Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System (1995)

Kevin Knight, Ishwar Ch, Matthew Haines, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Eduard Hovy, Masayo Lda, ...

Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) techniques yield high quabty in domuoH with detailed semantic models, limited vocabulary, and controlled input grammar Scaling up along these dimensions...

Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT (1994)

Knight, Kevin, Chander, Ishwar, Haines, Matthew, Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios, Hovy, Eduard, Iida, Masayo, ...

We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development of a Japanese-English newspaper MT system. Our...

Integrating knowledge bases and statistics in MT (1994)

Kevin Knight, Ishwar Ch, Matthew Haines, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Eduard Hovy, Masayo Iida, ...

We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development of a Japanese-English newspaper MT system. Our...

Peripheral-Type Benzodiazepine Receptors Are Involved in the Regulation of Cholesterol Side Chain Cleavage in Adrenocortical Mitochondria (1989)

Yanagibashi, Kazutoshi, Ohno, Yuji, Nakamichi, Noboru, Matsui, Takashi, Hayashida, Keiko, Takamura, Mitsuyuki, ...

In an attempt to elucidate the physiological relevance of the peripheral type of benzodiaze-pine receptor in adrenocortical mitochondria, we examined the effect of three different benzodiazepines...

A Slow Maturation of a Cysteine Protease with a Granulin Domain in the Vacuoles of Senescing Arabidopsis Leaves1

Yamada, Kenji, Matsushima, Ryo, Nishimura, Mikio, Hara-Nishimura, Ikuko

Arabidopsis RD21 is a cysteine protease of the papain family. Unlike other members of the papain family, RD21 has a C-terminal extension sequence composed of two domains, a 2-kD proline-rich domain...

A Vacuolar Processing Enzyme, δVPE, Is Involved in Seed Coat Formation at the Early Stage of Seed Development

Nakaune, Satoru, Yamada, Kenji, Kondo, Maki, Kato, Tomohiko, Tabata, Satoshi, Nishimura, Mikio, ...

Vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) is a Cys proteinase responsible for the maturation of vacuolar proteins. Arabidopsis thaliana δVPE, which was recently found in the database, was specifically and...

A Slow Maturation of a Cysteine Protease with a Granulin Domain in the Vacuoles of Senescing Arabidopsis Leaves1

Yamada, Kenji, Matsushima, Ryo, Nishimura, Mikio, Hara-Nishimura, Ikuko

Arabidopsis RD21 is a cysteine protease of the papain family. Unlike other members of the papain family, RD21 has a C-terminal extension sequence composed of two domains, a 2-kD proline-rich domain...

A Vacuolar Processing Enzyme, δVPE, Is Involved in Seed Coat Formation at the Early Stage of Seed Development

Nakaune, Satoru, Yamada, Kenji, Kondo, Maki, Kato, Tomohiko, Tabata, Satoshi, Nishimura, Mikio, ...

Vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) is a Cys proteinase responsible for the maturation of vacuolar proteins. Arabidopsis thaliana δVPE, which was recently found in the database, was specifically and...

Predictors of Survival in Patients With Bone Metastasis of Lung Cancer

Sugiura, Hideshi, Yamada, Kenji, Sugiura, Takahiko, Hida, Toyoaki, Mitsudomi, Tetsuya

The prognosis of patients with bone metastasis from lung cancer has not been well documented. We assessed the survival rates after bone metastasis and prognostic factors in 118 patients with bone...

NAI2 Is an Endoplasmic Reticulum Body Component That Enables ER Body Formation in Arabidopsis thaliana[W][OA]

Yamada, Kenji, Nagano, Atsushi J., Nishina, Momoko, Hara-Nishimura, Ikuko, Nishimura, Mikio

Plants develop various endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–derived structures, each of which has specific functions. The ER body found in Arabidopsis thaliana is a spindle-shaped structure that specifically...

Cytosolic heat shock protein 90 regulates heat shock transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yamada, Kenji, Nishimura, Mikio

Plant survival requires the ability to acclimate to heat, which is involves the expression of heat-inducible genes. We found cytosolic heat shock protein (HSP) 90 serves as a negative regulator of...