LINGUIST List 13.380

Mon Feb 11 2002

Sum: Machine Translation of Dialogue

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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  • Sherri Condon, Responses to Machine Translation Query

    Message 1: Responses to Machine Translation Query

     Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:07:34 -0500
    From: Sherri Condon <scondonmitre.org>
    Subject: Responses to Machine Translation Query


    As I promised, I am summarizing the responses I received to my query about machine translation of dialogue. I am grateful to all of our colleagues who shared their knowledge.

    Maite Taboada wrote about the JANUS project at Carnegie Mellon University: http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/mie/janus.html

    Francesca Guerzoni called attention to the NESPOLE! project http://nespole.itc.it

    Daniel Villa described work at the Computing Research Lab (CRL) at New Mexico State University on adapting a machine translation system to translate dialog: http://crl.nmsu.edu/

    Caren Brinckmann, Melanie Siegel, and Hans Ulrich (Ulli) Block all reminded me of the Verbmobil project and the many reports available on the website at http://verbmobil.dfki.de/ In addition, Caren and Ulli both mentioned the recently published book about the project: Wahlster, W. (ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2000

    Pius ten Hacken also recommended looking at the Verbmobil site and cited his paper: ten Hacken, Pius (2001), "Has There Been a Revolution in Machine Translation ?", Machine Translation 16:1-19.

    Finally, Dr. Paul Prueitt wrote about work he is doing that can be found at http://www.ontologystream.com/aSLIP/files/verbMaps.htm

    Thanks again to everyone who took time to respond.

    Sherri

    - Sherri L. Condon, Ph.D. The MITRE Corporation 11493 Sunset Hills Road Reston, Virginia 20190-5214 Phone: 703-883-5522 E-mail: scondonmitre.org