Shallow ProcessingDeep Processing Synthesis SynthesisTransfer Prosodic - Generation Recording Dialogue Processing EnglishEnglish Generation German German

In this paper we show how the notion of context has been reened in order to fullll the requirements posed by a natural language processing system. We describe the context model of the speech translation system verbmobil which has been derived from constraints given by various subcomponents of the system. In verbmo-bil context is stored in the dialogue memory which is incrementally constructed by the dialogue processing component. We describe our model of context and give examples for its representation. We also relate our model to state of the art approaches in theoretical and computational linguistics.