A modular approach to spoken language translation for large domains

Monika Woszczcyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldá, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Alex Waibel


Abstract
The MT engine of the JANUS speech-to-speech translation system is designed around four main principles: 1) an interlingua approach that allows the efficient addition of new languages, 2) the use of semantic grammars that yield low cost high quality translations for limited domains, 3) modular grammars that support easy expansion into new domains, and 4) efficient integration of multiple grammars using multi-domain parse lattices and domain re-scoring. Within the framework of the C-STAR-II speech-to-speech translation effort, these principles are tested against the challenge of providing translation for a number of domains and language pairs with the additional restriction of a common interchange format.
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1998.amta-papers.3
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Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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October 28-31
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1998
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Langhorne, PA, USA
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David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy
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Springer
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31–49
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Monika Woszczcyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldá, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, and Alex Waibel. 1998. A modular approach to spoken language translation for large domains. In Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 31–49, Langhorne, PA, USA. Springer.
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