Statistical Approach to Chinese-english Spoken- Language Translation in Hotel Reservation Domain
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چکیده
This paper investigates a preliminary translation system from Chinese to English based on the statistical approach and tests its performance on a limited-domain spoken-language task: hotel reservation. A bilingual corpus is available for the task, which exhibits some typical phenomena of spontaneous speech. The experiments are performed on both the text transcription and the speech recognizer output. The word error rate is about 14%. Some analyses present a great potential for improving the translation quality. From the results and analyses, a broad prospect is showed on the statistical approach to the spokenlanguage translation.
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