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This paper describes recent work on the Unisys ATIS Spo- ken Language System, and reports benchmark results on nat- ural language, spoken language, and speech recognition. We describe enhancements to the system's semantic processing for handling non.transparent argument structure and enhance- ments to the system's pragmatic processing of material in …...

This paper presents speech recognition test results from the BBN BYBLOS system on the Feb 91 DARPA benchmarks in both the Resource Management (RM) and the Air Travel Information System (ATIS) domains. In the RM test, we report on speaker-independent (SI) recognition performance for the standard training condition using 109 …...

In 1989, our group first reported on the development of SUM- MIT, a segment-based speaker-independent continuous-speech re- cognition system [13] . The initial version of SUMMIT made use of fairly simple context-independent models for the lexical labels. Recently, we have begun to incorporate more complex models of lexical labels that …...

The following describes recent work on the Lincoln CSR system. Some new variations in semiphone modeling have been tested. A very simple improved duration model has reduced the error rate by about 10~ in both triphone and semiphone systems. A new training strategy has been tested which, by itself, did …...

In this paper we present preliminary results obtained at Dragon Systems on the Resource Maaaagernent benchmark task. The basic conceptual units of our system are Phonemes-m-Context (PICs), which are represented as Hidden Mmkov Models, each of which is eapressed as a sequence of Phonetic Elements (PELs). The PELs corresponding to …...

The ESPRIT project POLYGLOT aims at developing multi-lingual Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech conversion and to integrate this technology in a number of commercially viable prototype applications. Speech-to-Text conversion is mainly concerned with very large vocabulary isolated word recognition. It uses a statistical knowledge based approach that was pioneered for Italian and …...

AbstractThis paper describes a memory-based machine translation system developed for the Semantic Net- work Array Processor (SNAP). The goal of our work is to develop a scalable and high-performance memory-based machine translation system which utilizes the high degree of parallelism provided by the SNAP machine. We have implemented an experimental …...

AbstractThe Translator’s Workbench provides the user with a set of computer-based tools for speeding up the translation process and facilitate multilingual text processing and technical writing. The tools include dictionaries, spelling, gram- mar, punctuation and style checkers, text pro- cessing utilities, remote access to a fully auto- matic machine translation …...

AbstractThe demand for personal use of a translation system seems to be increasing in accordance with the improvement in MT quality. A recent portable and powerful engineering workstation, such as AS1000 (SPARC LT), enables us to develop a personal-use oriented MT system This paper describes the outline of ASTRANSAC (an …...

AbstractWe wrote this report in Japanese and translated it by NEC's machine translation system PIVOT/JE.) IBS (International Business Service) is the company which does the documentation service which contains translation business. We introduced a machine translation system into translation business in earnest last year. The introduction of a machine translation …...

We wrote this report in Japanese and trans- lated it by NEC's machine translation system PIVOT/JE.) IBS (International Business Service) is the com- pany which does the documentation service which contains translation business. We in- troduced a machine translation system into translation business in earnest last year. The...

AbstractKnowledge-based interlingual machine translation systems produce semantically accurate translations, but typically require massive knowledge acquisition. This paper describes KANT, a system that reduces this requirement to produce practical, scalable, and accurate KBMT applications. First, the set of requirements is discussed, then the full KANT architecture is illustrated, and finally results …...

AbstractThis paper shows that, there are a number of common concepts which are used to define a class of nouns in standard, monolingual English and Spanish dictionaries. An experiment is described to show how a small sot of such con- cepts was derived semi-automatically by automatically analysing the definitions in …...

AbstractThis presentation outlines the implementation of a machine translation system for avalanche warning bulletins in natural language, using a unification-based formalism developed at ISSCO, which will be introduced at the same occasion. Concrete examples taken from this project exemplify a modern approach to ma- chine translation: a rich representation of …...

AbstractThe METAL system which originally evolved from a cooperation between the University of Texas and Siemens became a product in 1988. METAL is implemented on multi-user worksta- tions with a LISP server in the background. It is integrated into the office environment and permits automatic deformatting and reformatting of documents. …...

AbstractULTRA (Universal Language Translator) is a multi-lingua] bidirectional translation system between English, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese. It employs an interlingua] structure to translate among these five languages. An interlingual representation is used as a deep structure through which any pair of these languages can be translated in either direction. …...

AbstractThe ArchTran English-Chinese Machine Translation System is among the first commercialized English-Chinese machine translation systems in the world. A prototype system was released in 1989 and currently serves as the kernel of a value-added network-based translation service. The main design features of the ArchTran system are the adoption of a …...

AbstractWe describe an interlingua-based approach to machine translation, in which a DRS representation of the source text is used as the interlingua representation. A target DRS is then created and used to construct the target text. We describe several advantages of this level of representation. We also argue that problems …...

AbstractULTRA (Universal Language TRAnslator) is a multilingual, interlingual machine translation system currently under development at the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University. It translates between five languages (Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish) with vocabularies in each language based on approximately 10,000 word senses. The major design criteria are …...

AbstractIBM is engaged in advanced research and development projects on various aspects of machine translation, between several language pairs. The activities reported on hero are all parts of a rather large-scale, international effort, following Michael McCord’s LMT approach. The paper focuses on seven selected topics: recent enhancements made in the …...