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Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech disfluencies. We examine the impact of disfluencies from broadcast conversation data on our hierarchical phrase-based SMT system and implement automatic disfluency removal approaches for cleansing the MT input. We evaluate the efficacy of proposed approaches...
We investigate the use of hierarchical Gaussian shortlists to speed up Gaussian likelihood computation. This approach is a combination of hierarchical Gaussian selection and standard Gaussian shortlists. First, all the Gaussians are clustered hierarchically. Then, for the Gaussians in each level of the hierarchy, shortlists are trained to reduce likelihood computation at the corresponding level. This...
We summarize recent progress on SRI's IraqCommtrade Iraqi Arabic-English two-way speech-to-speech translation system. In the past year we made substantial developments in our speech recognition and machine translation technology, leading to significant improvements in both accuracy and speed of the IraqComm system. On the 2008 NIST-evaluation dataset our twoway speech-to-text (S2T) system achieved...
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