Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System

Bouillon, Pierrette; Halimi Mallem, Ismahene Sonia; Nakao, Yukie; Kanzaki, Kyoko; Isahara, Hitoshi; Tsourakis, Nikolaos; Starlander, Marianne; Hockey, Beth Ann; Rayner, Emmanuel

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Title		Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System
Authors		Bouillon, Pierrette Halimi Mallem, Ismahene Sonia Nakao, Yukie Kanzaki, Kyoko Isahara, Hitoshi Tsourakis, Nikolaos Starlander, Marianne Hockey, Beth Ann Rayner, Emmanuel show all authors [1 - 9]
Published in		Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marrakech (Marocco) - 28-30 May - . 2008, p. 1741-1748
Abstract		We describe recent work on MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary interlingua-based medical speech translation system, focussing on issues that arise when handling languages of which the grammar engineer has little or no knowledge. We describe how we can systematically create and maintain multiple forms of grammars, lexica and interlingual representations, with some versions being used by language informants, and some by grammar engineers. In particular, we describe the advantages of structuring the interlingua definition as a simple semantic grammar, which includes a human-readable surface form. We show how this allows us to rationalise the process of evaluating translations between languages lacking common speakers. The grammar-based interlingua definition can also be used in other ways. We describe two applications: a simple generic tool for debugging to-interlingua translation rules, and a method for improving speech understanding performance by rescoring N-best speech hypothesis lists. Examples presented focus on the concrete case of translation between Japanese and Arabic in both directions.
Full text		Proceedings chapter - Free access
Structures		Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traitement informatique multilingue
Citation (ISO format)		BOUILLON, Pierrette et al. Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marrakech (Marocco). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2008. p. 1741-1748. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:3467