Learning dependency translation models as collections of finite-state head transducers
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on finite-state methods in NLP
The Spoken Language Translator
The Spoken Language Translator
Language engineering and the pathway to healthcare: a user-oriented view
MST '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Speech Translation
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We describe a simple speech translation architecture intended for medical and other safety-critical applications, which is intended to represent a compromise between fixed-phrase translation on one hand and complex transfer-based translation on the other. Recognition is guided by an annotated CFG-based language model compiled from a unification grammar; transfer and generation use a minimal list-oriented semantic representation language. We present an evaluation of an initial prototype, which translates yes/no questions about hypoglycaemia from spoken French into spoken English using a vocabulary of about 200 words.