The NESPOLE! Speech to Speech Translation System

F Metze, J McDonough, H Soltau, A Waibel… - Human Language …, 2002 - inria.hal.science
The main goal of NESPOLE! is to advance the state-of-the-art of speech-to-speech
translation in realistic scenarios and involving naive users. The first showcase presented in …

Machine translation evaluation and optimization

B Dorr, J Olive, J McCary, C Christianson… - Handbook of natural …, 2011 - Springer
The evaluation of machine translation (MT) systems is a vital field of research, both for
determining the effectiveness of existing MT systems and for optimizing the performance of …

Statistical dialog management applied to WFST-based dialog systems

C Hori, K Ohtake, T Misu, H Kashioka… - … on Acoustics, Speech …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have proposed an expandable dialog scenario description and platform to manage
dialog systems using a weighted finite-state transducer (WFST) in which user concept and …

[PDF][PDF] Architecture and design considerations in nespole!: a speech translation system for e-commerce applications

A Lavie, C Langley, A Waibel, F Pianesi… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - aclanthology.org
NESPOLE! 1 is a speech-to-speech machine translation research project funded jointly by
the European Commission and the US NSF. The main goal of the NESPOLE! project is to …

Controlling interaction in multilingual conversation revisited: a perspective for services and interviews in Mandarin Chinese

J Du, C Alexandris, D Mourouzidis, V Floros… - … Interaction. User Interface …, 2017 - Springer
The present approach targets to provide a framework for facilitating multilingual interaction
in online business meetings with an agenda as well as in similar applications in the service …

Enhancing the Usability and Performance of NESPOLE!-a Real-World Speech-to-Speech Translation System

A Lavie, F Metze, F Pianesi, S Burger… - Human Language …, 2002 - inria.hal.science
Over the past year, we have developed a fully functional showcase of the NESPOLE! system
within the domain of travel and tourism, and have significantly improved system performance …

[PDF][PDF] Performance Evaluation of Speech Translation Systems.

BA Weiss, C Schlenoff, GA Sanders, MP Steves… - LREC, 2008 - aclanthology.org
One of the most challenging tasks for uniformed service personnel serving in foreign
countries is effective verbal communication with the local population. To remedy this …

[PDF][PDF] Balancing expressiveness and simplicity in an interlingua for task based dialogue

L Levin, D Gates, D Pianta, R Cattoni… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we compare two interlingua representations for speech translation. The basis of
this paper is a distributional analysis of the C-star II and Nespole databases tagged with …

A multi-perspective evaluation of the NESPOLE! speech-to-speech translation system

A Lavie, F Metze, R Cattoni, E Costantini… - ACL'02 workshop on …, 2002 - inria.hal.science
Performance and usability of realworld speech-to-speech translation systems, like the one
developed within the NESPOLE! project, are affected by several aspects that go beyong the …

[PDF][PDF] Domain portability in speech-to-speech translation

A Lavie, L Levin, T Schultz, C Langley… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - aclanthology.org
Speech-to-speech translation has made significant advances over the past decade, with
several high-visibility projects (C-STAR, Verbmobil, the Spoken Language Translator, and …