%0 Conference Proceedings %T Approaches to spoken translation %A Montgomery, Christine A. %A Li, Naicong %Y Richardson, Stephen D. %S Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: System Descriptions %D 2002 %8 oct 8 12 %I Springer %C Tiburon, USA %F montgomery-li-2002-approaches %X The paper discusses a number of important issues in speech-to-speech translation, including the key issue of level of integration of all components of such systems, based on our experience in the field since 1990. Section 1 discusses dimensions of the spoken translation problem, while current and near term approaches to spoken translation are treated in Sections 2 and 3. Section 2 describes our current expectation-based, speaker-independent, two-way translation systems, and Section 3 presents the advanced translation engine under development for handling spontaneous dialogs. %U https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45820-4_30 %P 248-252