Abstract Text simplification aims to help audiences read and understand a piece of text through lexical, syntactic, and discourse modifications, while remaining faithful to its central idea and meaning. Thanks to large-scale parallel corpora derived[...]

Abstract Raytheon BBN participated in the IARPA MATERIAL program, whose objective is to enable rapid development of language-independent methods for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR). The challenging CLIR task of retrieving documents written (or spoken) in[...]

Abstract Technological innovations in the field of speech technologies have rapidly increased in the last few years. However, new technologies cannot be applied directly since they need to be developed and they usually co-exist with[...]