The German joint research project Verb mobil VM aims at the development of a speech to speech translation system This paper reports on research done in our group which belongs to Verbmobil s subproject on system architectures TP Our spe ci c research areas are the construction of parsers for spontaneous speech investiga tions in the parallelization of parsing and to contribute to the developmen...

We present an approach to structured prediction from bandit feedback, called Bandit Structured Prediction, where only the value of a task loss function at a single predicted point, instead of a correct structure, is observed in learning. We present an application to discriminative reranking in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) where the learning algorithm only has access to a 1 − BLEU loss ...

We present online learning techniques for statistical machine translation (SMT). The availability of large training data sets that grow constantly over time is becoming more and more frequent in the field of SMT—for example, in the context of translation agencies or the daily translation of government proceedings. When new knowledge is to be incorporated in the SMT models, the use of batch lear...

Interactive translation prediction (ITP) is a modality of computer-aided translation that assists professional translators by offering context-based computer-generated continuation suggestions as they type. While most state-of-the-art ITP systems follow a glass-box approach, meaning that they are tightly coupled to an adapted machine translation system, a black-box approach which does not need ...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this work were: to define an abstract notation for interactive decision trees; to formally analyse exploration errors in such trees through automated translation to Lotos (language of temporal ordering specification); to generate tree implementations through automated translation for an existing tree viewer, and to demonstrate the approach on healthcare examples created b...

Machine translation technology has made great progress in the past few decades, especially proposal of statistical machine technology. If meaning can be roughly understood a limited field some specific languages, it said that not reached level correctly expressing original text all fields languages. Computer assisted been widely developed as viable alternative to translation. Interactive is one...