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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic disfluency removal for improving spoken language translation
Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
Wen Wang, Gökhan Tür, Jing Zheng, Necip ...
TASLP
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
System Combination for Machine Translation of Spoken and Written Language
This paper describes an approach for computing a consensus translation from the outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. The consensus translation is computed by weigh...
Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Rafael E. Banchs, N...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Extracting clues from human interpreter speech for spoken language translation
In previous work, we reported dramatic improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language translation (SLT) gained by applying information extracted from spoke...
Matthias Paulik, Alex Waibel
LREC
2010
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14 years 9 days ago
The D-TUNA Corpus: A Dutch Dataset for the Evaluation of Referring Expression Generation Algorithms
In this paper, we present the D-TUNA corpus, which is the first semantically annotated corpus of referring expressions in Dutch. Its primary function is to evaluate and improve th...
Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer
LREC
2008
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14 years 8 days ago
Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure with ASR Scoring
This paper discusses development and evaluation of a practical, valid and reliable instrument for evaluating the spoken language abilities of second-language (L2) learners of Engl...
C. Ray Graham, Deryle Lonsdale, Casey Kennington, ...