The RWTH Arabic-to-English spoken language translation system

2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 396-401

  Bender, Oliver ^a   Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Hahn, Stefan ^a   Hasan, Saša ^a   Khadivi, Shahram ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment of ASR and MT vocabularies; LM adaptation; Punctuation prediction; Speech to text

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ADJUSTMENT OF ASR AND MT VOCABULARIES; ARABIC SPEECH; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LM ADAPTATION; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849121720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/asru.2007.4430145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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