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Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-To-Face Dialog
Contributor(s): Kay, Martin (Author), Gawron, Mark (Author), Norvig, Peter (Author)

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 ISBN: 0937073954     ISBN-13: 9780937073957
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
OUR PRICE: $26.25  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1994
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Annotation: The Verbmobil System currently under development in Germany would input speech in a source language dialogue, translate it, and output synthesized speech in a target language, all in real time under the conditions of face-to-face dialogue. This preliminary study is an assessment of the state of the art of the speech recognition and machine translation fields, and a frank discussion of the challenges the developers of such a system face. A speech-based machine translation system in effect combines all the technical problems of understanding and generation systems and adds the very special difficulties of translation. The difficulties of translation are illustrated with a variety of examples culled from a number of languages. A general architecture called translation-by-negotiation is proposed. This book is of value not only to students of speech recognition and machine translation, but to anyone interested in natural language processing in general, since computational problems and linguistic approaches at various levels of linguistics and analysis are discussed.

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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Natural Language Processing
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 418.020
LCCN: 93038054
Series: Lecture Notes
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.08" W x 9.04" L (0.90 lbs) 236 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Contributor Bio(s): Kay, Martin: - Martin Kay is professor of linguistics at Stanford University and an honorary professor at the University of Saarland, Germany. He is a past president of the Association for the Computational Linguistics and resigned the chairmanship of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics in 2014, having served in that capacity for thirty years.
 
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