The Spoken Language Translator (Studies in Natural Language Processing)

Edited by Manny Rayner , David Carter , Pierrette Bouillon , Vassilis Digalakis , Mats Wirén

ISBN 10: 0521770777 / ISBN 13: 9780521770774

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

About this Item

This book describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. Editor(s): Rayner, Manny; Carter, David; Bouillon, Pierette; Digalakis, Vassilis; Wiren, Mats. Series Editor(s): Bird, Steven; HIndle, Don; Kay, Martin; McDonald, David; Uszkoreit, Hans. Series: Studies in Natural Language Processing. Num Pages: 356 pages, 25 b/w illus. 33 tables. BIC Classification: UYQL; UYU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 625. . 2000. First Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spoken Language Translator (Studies in Natural Language Processing)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521770777
• ISBN 13: 9780521770774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This original volume describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major automatic speech translation projects. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of about 75%. The authors detail the language processing components, largely built on top of the SRI Core Language Engine, using a combination of general grammars and techniques that allow them to be rapidly customized to specific domains. They base speech recognition on Hidden Markov Mode technology, and use versions of the SRI DECIPHER system. This account of SLT is an essential resource for researchers interested in knowing what is achievable in spoken-language translation today.

Book Description

This book, which should be of interest to anyone working in computational linguistics, speech recognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence or machine translation, describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of about 75%. The book explains in detail how the SLT system works and presents an objective evaluation of its performance.