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Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog

By Kay M. , Norvig P. , Gawron J.M.

Book information

Publisher
CSLI Publications
Year
1994
ISBN
0937073962
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2934788 bytes)
Series
Center for the Study of Language and Information - CSLI Lecture Notes 33
Pages
247\247
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2013-12-29 19:00:00

Description

The Verbmobil System currently under development in Germany would input speech in a source language dialogue, translate it, and output synthesized speech in a target language, all in real time under the conditions of face-to-face dialogue. This preliminary study is an assessment of the state of the art of the speech recognition and machine translation fields, and a frank discussion of the challenges the developers of such a system face. A speech-based machine translation system in effect combines all the technical problems of understanding and generation systems and adds the very special difficulties of translation. The difficulties of translation are illustrated with a variety of examples culled from a number of languages. A general architecture called translation-by-negotiation is proposed. This book is of value not only to students of speech recognition and machine translation, but to anyone interested in natural language processing in general, since computational problems and linguistic approaches at various levels of linguistics and analysis are discussed

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