UID:
almahu_9948621648602882
Format:
XII, 677 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2000.
ISBN:
9783662042304
Series Statement:
Artificial Intelligence,
Content:
Verbmobil is the result of eight years of intensive research in a large speech-to-speech translation project, executed by a consortium comprising nineteen academic and four industrial partners. The system that was developed by more than 100 researchers and engineers handles dialogs in three business-oriented domains, with translation between three languages: German, English, and Japanese. Verbmobil deals with spontaneous speech, which includes realistic repair phenomena, and uses deep semantic analysis to recognize a speaker's slips and to translate what he tried to say rather than what he actually said. After more than 400 single publications, this book gives the first comprehensive overview of the results of this unique and seminal project in human language technology. The theoretical and practical foundations from signal processing to language understanding are described in detail. The system anatomy is presented and the components for multilingual and robust speech processing, prosodic analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, discourse understanding, translation, generation and speech synthesis are discussed. Contributions by leading scientists in speech and language technology look at the component technologies that make Verbmobil the most advanced speech-to-speech translation system worldwide and a landmark project in the history of natural language processing.
Note:
Mobile Speech-to-Speech Translation of Spontaneous Dialogs: An Overview of the Final Verbmobil System -- Facts and Figures about the Verbmobil Project -- Multilingual Speech Recognition -- Robust Recognition of Spontaneous Speech -- Fast Search for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition -- Capturing Long Range Correlations Using Log-Linear Language Models -- Data Driven Generation of Pronunciation Dictionaries -- The Prosody Module -- The Recognition of Emotion -- Processing Self-Corrections in a Speech-to-Speech System -- Integrated Shallow Linguistic Processing -- Probabilistic LR-Parsing with Symbolic Postprocessing -- Robust Chunk Parsing for Spontaneous Speech -- Verbmobil Interface Terms (VITs) -- Semantic Construction -- Deep Linguistic Analysis with HPSG -- HPSG Analysis of German -- HPSG Analysis of English -- HPSG Analysis of Japanese -- Efficient and Robust Parsing of Word Hypotheses Graphs -- Speech Lexica and Consistent Multilingual Vocabularies -- Combining Analyses from Various Parsers -- Robust Semantic Processing of Spoken Language -- Discourse and Dialog Semantics for Translation -- Multilingual Semantic Databases -- Semantic-Based Transfer -- Statistical Methods for Machine Translation -- Adapting a Large Scale MT System for Spoken Language -- Example-Based Incremental Synchronous Interpretation -- Example-Based Machine Translation with Templates -- Robust Content Extraction for Translation and Dialog Processing -- Modeling Negotiation Dialogs -- Dialog Processing -- Contextual Disambiguation -- The Verbmobil Generation Component VM-GECO -- The Application of HPSG-to-TAG Compilation Techniques -- Generating Multilingual Dialog Summaries and Minutes -- Speech Synthesis Using Multilevel Selection and Concatenation of Units from Large Speech Corpora -- Verbmobil Data Collection and Annotation -- The Tübingen Treebanks for Spoken German, English, and Japanese -- Multilingual Verbmobil-Dialogs: Experiments, Data Collection and Data Analysis -- Speech Recognition Performance Assessment -- Speech Synthesis Quality Assessment -- From Off-line Evaluation to On-line Selection -- Functional Validation of a Machine Interpretation System: Verbmobil -- Verbmobil From a Software Engineering Point of View: System Design and Software Integration -- From a Stationary Prototype to Telephone Translation Services -- List of Contributors.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783642087301
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540677833
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783662042311
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4
