Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-To-Speech Translation

Wolfgang Wahlster

3/5 ( ratings)

In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation of spon taneous speech. Previous research work on speech processing had focused on read speech only and international projects aimed at automated text translation had just been terminated without achieving their objectives. Within this context, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research made a careful analysis of all national and international research projects conducted in the field of speech and language technology before deciding to launch an eight-year basic-research lead project in which research groups were to cooperate in an interdisciplinary and international effort covering the disciplines of computer science, computational linguistics, translation science, signal processing, communi cation science and artificial intelligence. At some point, the project comprised up to 135 work packages with up to 33 research groups working on these packages. The project was controlled by means of a network plan. Every two years the project sit uation was assessed and the project goals were updated. An international scientific advisory board provided advice for BMBF. A new scientific approach was chosen for this project: coping with the com plexity of spontaneous speech with all its pertinent phenomena such as ambiguities, self-corrections, hesitations and disfluencies took precedence over the intended lex icon size. Another important aspect was that prosodic information was exploited at all processing stages."

Language: English

Pages: 677

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: July 31, 2000

ISBN: 3540677836

ISBN 13: 9783540677833

Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-To-Speech Translation

Wolfgang Wahlster

3/5 ( ratings)

In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation of spon taneous speech. Previous research work on speech processing had focused on read speech only and international projects aimed at automated text translation had just been terminated without achieving their objectives. Within this context, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research made a careful analysis of all national and international research projects conducted in the field of speech and language technology before deciding to launch an eight-year basic-research lead project in which research groups were to cooperate in an interdisciplinary and international effort covering the disciplines of computer science, computational linguistics, translation science, signal processing, communi cation science and artificial intelligence. At some point, the project comprised up to 135 work packages with up to 33 research groups working on these packages. The project was controlled by means of a network plan. Every two years the project sit uation was assessed and the project goals were updated. An international scientific advisory board provided advice for BMBF. A new scientific approach was chosen for this project: coping with the com plexity of spontaneous speech with all its pertinent phenomena such as ambiguities, self-corrections, hesitations and disfluencies took precedence over the intended lex icon size. Another important aspect was that prosodic information was exploited at all processing stages."

Language: English

Pages: 677

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: July 31, 2000

ISBN: 3540677836

ISBN 13: 9783540677833

More books from Wolfgang Wahlster

SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things (Cognitive Technologies)

Computerlinguistik Und Ihre Theoretischen Grundlagen: Symposium, Saarbrucken, 9. 11. Marz 1988 Proceedings

Smartkom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems

Smartkom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems

New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy: A Roadmap for Usage and Exploitation of Big Data in Europe

New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy: A Roadmap for Usage and Exploitation of Big Data in Europe

Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program (Cognitive Technologies)

Towards the Internet of Services: The Theseus Research Program

HERMES AWARD – Internationaler Technologiepreis der HANNOVER MESSE: Innovationen für die industrielle Produktion – Die ersten zwölf Jahre (essentials) (German Edition)

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment: First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Madonna di Campaglio, Italy, November 30 - December ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

Rate this book!

Write a review?