Sentence selection for improving the tuning process of a statistical machine translation system

Este artículo describe una estrategia de selección de frases para hacer el ajuste de un sistema de traducción estadístico basado en el decodificador Moses que traduce del español al inglés. En este trabajo proponemos dos posibilidades para realizar esta selección de las frases del corpus de validación que más se parecen a las frases que queremos traducir (frases de test en lengua origen). Con esta selección podemos obtener unos mejores pesos de los modelos para emplearlos después en el proceso de traducción y, por tanto, mejorar los resultados. Concretamente, con el método de selección basado en la medida de similitud propuesta en este artículo, mejoramos la medida BLEU del 27,17% con el corpus de validación completo al 27,27% seleccionando las frases para el ajuste. Estos resultados se acercan a los del experimento ORACLE: se utilizan las mismas frases de test para hacer el ajuste de los pesos. En este caso, el BLEU obtenido es de 27,51%.

Design and evaluation of an educational platform for implementing and testing bilateral control algorithms

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a new platform created in order to improve the learning experience of bilateral control algorithms in teleoperation. This experimental platform, developed at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, is used by the students of the Master on Automation and Robotics in the practices of the subject called “Telerobotics and Teleoperation”. The main objective is to easily implement different control architectures in the developed platform and evaluate them under different conditions to better understand the main advantages and drawbacks of each control scheme. So, the student’s tasks are focused on adjusting the control parameters of the predefined controllers and designing new ones to analyze the changes in the behavior of the whole system. A description of the subject, main topics and the platform constructed are detailed in the paper. Furthermore, the methodology followed in the practices and the bilateral control algorithms are presented. Finally, the results obtained in the experiments with students are also shown.

Evaluation of three solar and daylighting control systems based on Calumen II, Ecotect and Radiance simulation programs to obtain an energy efficient and healthy interior in the experimental building prototype SDE10

Evaluation of three solar and daylighting control systems based on Calumen II, Ecotect and Radiance simulation programs to obtain an energy efficient and healthy interior in the experimental building prototype SDE10

Biomechanical evaluation of the singing voice

Teaching the adequate use of the singing voice conveys a lot of knowledge in musical performance as well as in objective estimation techniques involving the use of air, muscles, room and body acoustics, and the tuning of a fine instrument as the human voice. Although subjective evaluation and training is a very delicate task to be carried out only by expert singers, biomedical engineering may help contributing with well-funded methodologies developed for the study of voice pathology. The present work is a preliminary study of exploratory character describing the performance of a student singer in a regular classroom under the point of view of vocal fold biomechanics. Estimates of biomechanical parameters obtained from singing voice are given and their potential use is discussed.

Evaluation of the Intelligent Cruise Control System. Volume I: study results.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Evaluation of traffic control devices for rural high-speed maintenance work zones.

Texas Department of Transportation, Research and Technology Transfer Office, Austin

Evaluation of irrigation methods for salinity control in Grand Valley /

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Evaluation of selective erosion control techniques : Piedmont region of S.E. United States /

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An evaluation of cotton dust control systems in the picking and garnetting areas of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary /

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Evaluation of an electrostatic precipitator for control of emissions from a copper smelter reverberatory furnace /

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Evaluation of traffic control plans at reconstruction sites. Final report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

Evaluation of steady burn lights for traffic control in highway work zones. Phase II. Final report.

Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus

Evaluation of technology for control of arsenic emissions at the Campbell Red Lake Gold Smelter /

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Evaluation of speed control signs for small rural towns. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

An evaluation of component repair costs for Auto Check participants. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of State Vehicle Programs, Washington, D.C.