INTERSPEECH 2011 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Florence, Italy August 27-31. 2011

Speech Translation with Grammar Driven Probabilistic Phrasal Bilexica Extraction

Markus Saers, Dekai Wu, Chi-kiu Lo, Karteek Addanki

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China

We introduce a new type of transduction grammar that allows for learning of probabilistic phrasal bilexica, leading to a significant improvement in spoken language translation accuracy. The current state-of-the-art in statistical machine translation relies on a complicated and crude pipeline to learn probabilistic phrasal bilexica . the very core of any speech translation system. In this paper, we present a more principled approach to learning probabilistic phrasal bilexica, based on stochastic transduction grammar learning applicable to speech corpora.

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Bibliographic reference.  Saers, Markus / Wu, Dekai / Lo, Chi-kiu / Addanki, Karteek (2011): "Speech translation with grammar driven probabilistic phrasal bilexica extraction", In INTERSPEECH-2011, 2089-2092.