Speech Translation by Confusion Network Decoding

Nicola Bertoldi, Richard Zens, Marcello Federico
2007 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '07  
This paper describes advances in the use of confusion networks as interface between automatic speech recognition and machine translation. In particular, it presents an implementation of a confusion network decoder which significantly improves both in efficiency and performance previous work along this direction. The confusion network decoder results as an extension of a state-of-the-art phrase-based text translation system. Experimental results in terms of decoding speed and translation
more » ... are reported on a real-data task, namely the translation of Plenary Speeches at the European Parliament from Spanish to English.
doi:10.1109/icassp.2007.367315 dblp:conf/icassp/BertoldiZF07 fatcat:4mpl5jj3m5bhvkqafg3ej2i4oi