Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions - ACL '05, 2005
The ACL 2005 Interactive Poster and Demonstration session took place on Sunday, June 26, 2005 in ... more The ACL 2005 Interactive Poster and Demonstration session took place on Sunday, June 26, 2005 in Ann Arbor Michigan, on the first day of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. There were 56 submissions to this event, of which 31 were selected for presentation, resulting in a 55% acceptance rate.
The concept classifier has been used as a translation unit in speech-to-speech translation system... more The concept classifier has been used as a translation unit in speech-to-speech translation systems. However, the sparsity of the training data is the bottle neck of its effectiveness. Here, a new method based on using a statistical machine translation system has been introduced to mitigate the effects of data sparsity for training classifiers. Also, the effects of the background model which is necessary to compensate the above problem, is investigated. Experimental evaluation in the context of crosslingual doctor-patient interaction application show the superiority of the proposed method.
Working Notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, 2004
In this paper we describe our spoken english-persian medical dialogue translation system. We desc... more In this paper we describe our spoken english-persian medical dialogue translation system. We describe the data collection effort and give an overview of the component technologies, including speech recognition, translation, dialogue management, and user interface design. The individual modules and system are designed for flexibility, and to be able to leverage different amounts of available resources to maximize the ability for communication between medical care-giver and patient.
Two ideas currently gaining popularity in spoken dialogue construction are safety critical transl... more Two ideas currently gaining popularity in spoken dialogue construction are safety critical translation and pervasive speech-enabled applications. Safety critical, and in particular, medical, applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech translation, held at HLT 2006, a measure of consensus emerged on at least some points. The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature; systems can realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future; the basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the client users to play an active role; and medical systems are often most useful when deployed on mobile devices. This last point offers a natural link to pervasive computing applications, where spoken language technologies provide an effective and natural interface for mobile devices in situations where traditional modes of communication are less appropriate.
Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions - ACL '05, 2005
The ACL 2005 Interactive Poster and Demonstration session took place on Sunday, June 26, 2005 in ... more The ACL 2005 Interactive Poster and Demonstration session took place on Sunday, June 26, 2005 in Ann Arbor Michigan, on the first day of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. There were 56 submissions to this event, of which 31 were selected for presentation, resulting in a 55% acceptance rate.
The concept classifier has been used as a translation unit in speech-to-speech translation system... more The concept classifier has been used as a translation unit in speech-to-speech translation systems. However, the sparsity of the training data is the bottle neck of its effectiveness. Here, a new method based on using a statistical machine translation system has been introduced to mitigate the effects of data sparsity for training classifiers. Also, the effects of the background model which is necessary to compensate the above problem, is investigated. Experimental evaluation in the context of crosslingual doctor-patient interaction application show the superiority of the proposed method.
Working Notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, 2004
In this paper we describe our spoken english-persian medical dialogue translation system. We desc... more In this paper we describe our spoken english-persian medical dialogue translation system. We describe the data collection effort and give an overview of the component technologies, including speech recognition, translation, dialogue management, and user interface design. The individual modules and system are designed for flexibility, and to be able to leverage different amounts of available resources to maximize the ability for communication between medical care-giver and patient.
Two ideas currently gaining popularity in spoken dialogue construction are safety critical transl... more Two ideas currently gaining popularity in spoken dialogue construction are safety critical translation and pervasive speech-enabled applications. Safety critical, and in particular, medical, applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech translation, held at HLT 2006, a measure of consensus emerged on at least some points. The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature; systems can realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future; the basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the client users to play an active role; and medical systems are often most useful when deployed on mobile devices. This last point offers a natural link to pervasive computing applications, where spoken language technologies provide an effective and natural interface for mobile devices in situations where traditional modes of communication are less appropriate.
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