JANUS is a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary e orts to expand the domain of coverage of the system from the rather limited Appointment Scheduling domain, to the much richer Travel Planning domain. We compare the two domains in terms of out-of-v...

In this paper, several criteria and paradigms are described to measure the performance of spoken language systems. The focus is on the evaluation of natural language understanding components. These evaluations are carried out in the domain of spontaneous human-human interaction as supported by automatic translation systems. They are also applied in the domain of spontaneous human-machine intera...

In this paper, we describe the IBM MASTOR, a speech-to-speech translation system that can translate spontaneous free-form speech in real-time on both laptop and hand-held PDAs. Challenges include speech recognition and machine translation in adverse environments, lack of training data and linguistic resources for under-studied languages, and the need to rapidly develop capabilities for new lang...

In this paper, we describe an extension to a hybrid machine translation system for handling dialect Arabic, using a decoding algorithm to normalize non-standard, spontaneous and dialectal Arabic into Modern Standard Arabic. We prove the feasibility of the approach by measuring and comparing machine translation results in terms of BLEU with and without the proposed approach. We show in our tests...

background: neuroectodermal tumors (pnet) are malignant small cells neoplasm mainly occurring in children but can occur at any age. extensive bleeding into the pleural cavity is rare in children. hemothorax would be compatible with a variety of congenital anomalies including sequestration, patent ductus artreiosus, and pulmonary arteriovenous malformation. case report: a 2.5-years old girl who ...

(for dissemination) We describe the experimental results using the baseline speech-to-speech translation systems created in D4.3 and compare them to an enhanced translation system taking different language resources into account. Experiments were performed on the trilingual corpus (English, Spanish, Catalan) built within the project in WP5. This corpus consists of spontaneous dialogues in the d...

At ATR, a next-generation speech translation system is under development towards natural trans-language communication. To cope with the various requirements to speech recognition technology for the new system, further research efforts should emphasize the robustness for large vocabulary, speaking variations often found in fast spontaneous speech and speaker variances. These are key problems to ...

Group-IV monochalcogenides have attracted much attention due to their potential of ferroelectric and multiferroic properties. Recently, centrosymmetric gamma-phase GeSe in a double-layer honeycomb lattice has been theoretically predicted, but the synthesized showed noncentrosymmetric atomic structure, leading possibility ferroelectricity spin-splitting. Here, we study quasiparticle band structu...

One of the key issues in spoken language translation is how to deal with unrestricted expressions in spontaneous utterances. This research is centered on the development of a Chinese paraphraser that automatically paraphrases utterances prior to transfer in Chinese-Japanese spoken language translation. In this paper, a pattern-based approach to paraphrasing is proposed for which only morphologi...

JANUS is a multilingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary eeorts to expand the domain of coverage of the system from the rather limited Appointment Scheduling domain, to the much richer Travel Planning domain. We compare the two domains in terms of out-of-vo...