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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A new evaluation method for speech translation systems and a case study on ATR-MATRIX from Japanese to English
%A Takezawa, Toshiyuki
%A Sugaya, Fumiaki
%A Yokoo, Akio
%A Yamamoto, Seiichi
%S Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII
%D 1999
%8 sep 13 17
%C Singapore, Singapore
%F takezawa-etal-1999-new
%X ATR-MATRIX is a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system designed to facilitate communications between two parties of different languages engaged in a spontaneous conversation in a travel arrangement domain. In this paper, we propose a new evaluation method for speech translation systems. Our current focus is on measuring the robustness of a language translation sub-system, with quick calculation and low cost. Therefore, we calculate the difference between the translation output from transcription texts and the translation output from input speech by a dynamic programming method. We present the first trial experiment of this method applied to our Japanese-to-English speech translation system. We also provide related discussions on such points as error analysis and the relationship between the proposed method and translation quality evaluation manually done by humans.
%U https://aclanthology.org/1999.mtsummit-1.44
%P 299-307

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[A new evaluation method for speech translation systems and a case study on ATR-MATRIX from Japanese to English](https://aclanthology.org/1999.mtsummit-1.44) (Takezawa et al., MTSummit 1999)

• A new evaluation method for speech translation systems and a case study on ATR-MATRIX from Japanese to English (Takezawa et al., MTSummit 1999)

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• Toshiyuki Takezawa, Fumiaki Sugaya, Akio Yokoo, and Seiichi Yamamoto. 1999. A new evaluation method for speech translation systems and a case study on ATR-MATRIX from Japanese to English. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, pages 299–307, Singapore, Singapore.