... of w by using the flip-flop algo- rithm devised by Nadas, Nahamoo, Picheny, and Poweli [Nadas et aL, 1991]. To under- stand their algorithm, first imagine that w is a French word and that ... Acoustics, Speech and Sig- nal Processing, 37:100 1-1 008. [Breiman et ai., 1984] Breiman, L., Fried- man, J. tI., Olshen, R. A., and Stone, C. J. (1984). Classification and Regres- sion Trees. ... reduces the en- tropy of the translation of the French prepo- sition depuis by .738 bits. When depuis is fol- lowed by an article, it translates with proba- bility .772 to .since, and otherwise...