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- Walther v. Hahn and Jan W. Amtrup (1996)
- "Speech-to-Speech Translation: The Project Verbmobil."
In Proceedings of SPECOM 96. pp. 51-56. St. Petersburg. October 1996
[PDF, 6 pages]
The research project Verbmobil combines the research branches of continuous speech recognition and machine translation. A consortium of more than 20 universities and 8 companies in Germany as well as two partner institutes in USA and Japan is enganged in the development of a system for translation of spontaneous and continuous speech input to speech output. In the first phase the language pair German and Japanese has been chosen with English as a presentation language (to check the translation quality). The domain of discourse is appointment scheduling. The final application may be an appointment negotiation among two industrial managers from Japan and Germany. In the second project phase the domain will be extended to include travel planning discussions. There exists a prototype implementation integrating the modules of the partners. Additional background research has been carried out to investigate prablems e.g. of dialogue and discourse modelling, stochastic parsing and innovative software architectures. This paper gives an overview of the project, its goals and results. It describes in more details research done on integrative architectures. This paper (except section 4) is mostly based on official Verbmobil documents (see Wahlster (1993) and Kay (1994).
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