Janus: Towards Multilingual Spoken Language Translation (1995)
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@MISC{Suhm95janus:towards,
author = {B. Suhm and P. Geutner and T. Kemp and A. Lavie and L. Mayfield and A. E. McNair and I. Rogina and T. Schultz and T. Sloboda and W. Ward and et al.},
title = {Janus: Towards Multilingual Spoken Language Translation},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
In our effort to build spoken language translation systems we have extended our JANUS system to process spontaneous human-human dialogs in a new domain, two people trying to schedule a meeting. Trained on an initial database JANUS-2 is able to translate English and German spoken input in either English, German, Spanish, Japanese or Korean output. To tackle the difficulty of spontaneous human-human dialogs we improved the JANUS-2 recognizer along its three knowledgesourcesacousticmodels, dictionary andlanguage models. We developed a robust translation system which performs semantic rather than syntactic analysis and thus is particulary suited to processing spontaneous speech. We describe repair methods to recover from recognition errors. tes on spontaneo...
