Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Wolfgang Wahlster (Ed.)

Springer

Berlin/Heidelberg

2000

[ISBN 3-540-67783-6]

Table of Contents

Foreword ...................................................................................... … v

Acknowledgements................................................................... …vii

Introduction

Mobile Speech-to-Speech Translation of Spontaneous Dialogs:

An Overview of the Final Verbmobil System.......................................................... 3 [abstract]

Wolfgang Wahlster

Facts and Figures about the Verbmobil Project...................................................... 22 [abstract]

Reinhard Karger, Wolfgang Wahlster

From Speech Input to Augmented Word Lattices

Multilingual Speech Recognition............................................................................... 33 [abstract]

Alex Waibel, Hagen Soltau, Tanja Schultz, Thomas Schaaf, Florian Metze

Robust Recognition of Spontaneous Speech ......................................................... 46 [abstract]

Udo Haiber, Helmut Mangold, Thilo Pfau, Peter Regel-Brietzmann,

Günther Ruske, Volker Schleß

Fast Search for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition........................................ 63 [abstract]

Stephan Kanthak, Achim Sixtus, Sirko Molau, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Capturing Long Range Correlations Using Log-Linear Language Models .... 79 [abstract]

Jochen Peters, Dietrich Klakow

Data Driven Generation of Pronunciation Dictionaries......................................... 95 [abstract]

Matthias Eichner, Matthias Wolff, Rüdiger Hoffmann

The Prosody Module.................................................................................................... 106 [abstract]

Anton Batliner,Jan Buckow, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth,

Volker Warnke

The Recognition of Emotion...................................................................................... 122 [abstract]

Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth,

Jörg Spilker, Kerstin Fischer

Processing Self-Corrections in a Speech-to-Speech System.................................. 131 [abstract]

Jörg Spilker, Martin Klarner, Günther Görz

Lexical and Syntactic Processing

Integrated Shallow Linguistic Processing.................................................................. 143 [abstract]

Hans Ulrich Block, Tobias Ruland

Probabilistic LR-Parsing with Symbolic Postprocessing......................................... 147 [abstract]

Tobias Ruland

Robust Chunk Parsing for Spontaneous Speech..................................................... 163 [abstract]

Erhard W. Hinrichs, Sandra Kübler, Valia Kordoni, Frank H. Müller

Verbmobil Interface Terms (VITs)............................................................................ 183 [abstract]

Michael Schiehlen, Johan Bos, Michael Dorna

Semantic Construction................................................................................................ 200 [abstract]

Michael Schiehlen

Deep Linguistic Analysis with HPSG......................................................................... 216 [abstract]

Hans Uszkoreit, Dan Flickinger, Walter Kasper, Ivan A. Sag

HPSG Analysis of German.......................................................................................... 238 [abstract]

Stefan Müller, Walter Kasper

HPSG Analysis of English........................................................................................... 254 [abstract]

Dan Flickinger, Ann Copestake, Ivan A. Sag

HPSG Analysis of Japanese........................................................................................ 264 [abstract]

Melanie Siegel

Efficient and Robust Parsing of Word Hypotheses Graphs.................................. 280 [abstract]

Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Mark-Jan Nederhof

Speech Lexica and Consistent Multilingual Vocabularies.................................... 296 [abstract]

Dafydd Gibbon, Harold Lüngen

Semantic Processing

Combining Analyses from Various Parsers ............................................................. 311 [abstract]

C.J. Rupp, Jorg Spilker, Martin Klarner, Karsten L. Worm

Robust Semantic Processing of Spoken Language................................................ 321 [abstract]

Manfred Pinkal, C.J. Rupp, Karsten Worm

Discourse and Dialog Semantics for Translation.................................................... 336 [abstract]

Johan Bos, Julia Heine

Multilingual Semantic Databases.............................................................................. 348 [abstract]

Walter Kasper

Dialog Translation

Semantic-Based Transfer........................................................................................... 359 [abstract]

Martin C. Emele, Michael Dorna, Anke Lüdeling, Heike Zinsmeister,

Christian Rohrer

Statistical Methods for Machine Translation.......................................................... 377 [abstract]

Stephan Vogel, Franz Josef Och, Christof Tillmann, Sonja Nießen,

Hassan Sawaf Hermann Ney

Adapting a Large Scale MT System for Spoken Language.................................. 394 [abstract]

Hans Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl, Manfred Gehrke

Example-Based Incremental Synchronous Interpretation................................... 411 [abstract]

Hans Ulrich Block

Example-Based Machine Translation with Templates......................................... 418 [abstract]

Marko Auerswald

Robust Content Extraction for Translation and Dialog Processing..................... 428 [abstract]

Norbert Reithinger, Ralf Engel

Dialog Processing and Context Evaluation

Modeling Negotiation Dialogs..................................................................................... 441 [abstract]

Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel, Michael Kipp, Stephan Koch,

Uwe Küssner, Norbert Reithinger, Manfred Stede

Dialog Processing........................................................................................................... 452 [abstract]

Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel, Norbert Reithinger

Contextual Disambiguation ....................................................................................... 466 [abstract]

Stephan Koch, Uwe Küssner, Manfred Stede

Language Generation and Speech Synthesis

The Verbmobil Generation Component VM-GECO.............................................. 481 [abstract]

Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez, Peter Poller

The Application of HPSG-to-TAG Compilation Techniques............................... 497 [abstract]

Tilman Becker, Patrice Lopez

Generating Multilingual Dialog Summaries and Minutes...................................... 507 [abstract]

Jan Alexandersson, Peter Potter, Michael Kipp

Speech Synthesis Using Multilevel Selection and Concatenation of Units

from Large Speech Corpora........................................................................................ 519 [abstract]

Karlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Jörg Helbig, Stefanie Köster, David Stall,

Matthias Thomae, Jens Blauert, Wolfgang Hess, Rüdiger Hoffmann,

Helmut Mangold

Data Collection and Evaluation

Verbmobil Data Collection and Annotation............................................................ 537 [abstract]

Susanne Burger, Karl Weilhammer, Florian Schiel, Hans G. Tillmann

The Tübingen Treebanks for Spoken German, English, and Japanese............... 550 [abstract]

Erhard W. Hinrichs, Julia Bartels, Yasuhiro Kawata, Valia Kordoni,

Heike Telljohann

Multilingual Verbmobil-Dialogs: Experiments, Data Collection

and Data Analysis........................................................................................................ 575 [abstract]

Susanne J. Jekat, Walther v. Hahn

Speech Recognition Performance Assessment........................................................ 583 [abstract]

Michael Malenke, Marcus Bäumler, Erwin Paulus

Speech Synthesis Quality Assessment.................................................................... 592 [abstract]

Jochen Steffens, Erwin Paulus

From Off-line Evaluation to On-line Selection........................................................ 597 [abstract]

Damir Ćavar, Uwe Küssner, Dan Tidhar

Functional Validation of a Machine Interpretation System: Verbmobil............ 611 [abstract]

Lorenzo Tessiore, Walther v. Hahn

System Architecture and Software Integration

Verbmobil From a Software Engineering Point of View:

System Design and Software Integration................................................................. 635 [abstract]

Andreas Klüter, Alassane Ndiaye, Heinz Kirchmann

From a Stationary Prototype to Telephone Translation Services........................ 659 [abstract]

Heinz Kirchmann, Alassane Ndiaye, Andreas Klüter

List of Contributors.................................................................. 671