Integration of statistical models for dictation of document translations in a machine-aided human translation task

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2015-2027

  Reddy, Aarthi ^a   Rose, Richard C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Index Terms Machine aided human translation (MAHT); Machine translation; Named entity recognition; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMBINED SYSTEM; DOCUMENT TRANSLATION; INDEX TERMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; PHONETIC INFORMATION; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; SYSTEM COMBINATION; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; WORD ERROR RATE;

INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77956541453     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2040793     Document Type: Article

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