Speech recognition for machine translation in Quaero

Lori Lamel, Sandrine Courcinous, Julien Despres, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yvan Josse, Kevin Kilgour, Florian Kraft, Viet-Bac Le, Hermann Ney, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Ilya Oparin, Tim Schlippe, Ralf Schlüter, Tanja Schultz, Thiago Fraga da Silva, Sebastian Stüker, Martin Sundermeyer, Bianca Vieru, Ngoc Thang Vu, Alexander Waibel, Cécile Woehrling


Abstract
This paper describes the speech-to-text systems used to provide automatic transcriptions used in the Quaero 2010 evaluation of Machine Translation from speech. Quaero (www.quaero.org) is a large research and industrial innovation program focusing on technologies for automatic analysis and classification of multimedia and multilingual documents. The ASR transcript is the result of a Rover combination of systems from three teams ( KIT, RWTH, LIMSI+VR) for the French and German languages. The casesensitive word error rates (WER) of the combined systems were respectively 20.8% and 18.1% on the 2010 evaluation data, relative WER reductions of 14.6% and 17.4% respectively over the best component system.
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2011.iwslt-evaluation.16
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Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
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December 8-9
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2011
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San Francisco, California
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Marcello Federico, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Margit Rödder, Sebastian Stüker
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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121–128
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Lori Lamel, Sandrine Courcinous, Julien Despres, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yvan Josse, Kevin Kilgour, Florian Kraft, Viet-Bac Le, Hermann Ney, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Ilya Oparin, Tim Schlippe, Ralf Schlüter, Tanja Schultz, Thiago Fraga da Silva, Sebastian Stüker, Martin Sundermeyer, Bianca Vieru, Ngoc Thang Vu, et al.. 2011. Speech recognition for machine translation in Quaero. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 121–128, San Francisco, California.
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