Solutions to problems inherent in spoken-language translation: the ATR-MATRIX approach

Eiichiro Sumita, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideki Kashioka, Kai Ishikawa, Satoshi Shirai


Abstract
ATR has built a multi-language speech translation system called ATR-MATRIX. It consists of a spoken-language translation subsystem, which is the focus of this paper, together with a highly accurate speech recognition subsystem and a high-definition speech synthesis subsystem. This paper gives a road map of solutions to the problems inherent in spoken-language translation. Spoken-language translation systems need to tackle difficult problems such as ungrammaticality. contextual phenomena, speech recognition errors, and the high-speeds required for real-time use. We have made great strides towards solving these problems in recent years. Our approach mainly uses an example-based translation model called TDMT. We have added the use of extra-linguistic information, a decision tree learning mechanism, and methods dealing with recognition errors.
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1999.mtsummit-1.34
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII
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September 13-17
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1999
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Eiichiro Sumita, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideki Kashioka, Kai Ishikawa, and Satoshi Shirai. 1999. Solutions to problems inherent in spoken-language translation: the ATR-MATRIX approach. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, pages 229–235, Singapore, Singapore.
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