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Project Name

Cooperation Project Verbmobil Phase II:
"Multilingual, robust, and direct translation of spontaneous speech dialogs"

Abstract

Verbmobil is a long-term interdisciplinary Language Technology project. This speaker-independent system processes spontaneous speech. Developed for the domains of appointment negotiation, travel planning and hotel reserving, Verbmobil offers assistance in dialog situations. The joint initiative, in which information technology companies, universities, and research centers cooperate is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF). Until the year 2000 115 million DM are allocated to the project. In addition industrial partners bring in 51 million DM. The project is controlled by the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR). The Verbmobil milestones are reviewed twice a year by an international advisory board. Duration of Phase 1: 1993 - 1996; Phase 2: 1997 - 2000.

IMS is responsible for a semantic-based translation approach. It belongs to work package 3 "Machine Translation". The transfer component takes as input the analysis of the linguistic processing components developed in work package 2 and produces a target language representation. This representation serves then as input to the generation and synthesis modules for generating an utterance which tries to preserve the major content of the source language utterance.

Duration

Feb 01.1993 through Dec 31 1996 (Phase 1)
Jan 01 1997 through Sept 30 2000 (Phase 2)

Subproject 3 "Translation"

PackageTitel
AP 3.1"KContrastive Phenomena and Fragment Encoding"
 AP 3.1.1 "German-English"
 AP 3.1.2 "German-Japanese"
 AP 3.1.3 "Japanese-English"
 AP 3.1.4 "Japanese-German"
AP 3.2"Interfaces for the Transfer Component"
AP 3.3"Extensions of the Transfer Formalism"
AP 3.4"Resolving Ambiguities"
AP 3.12"Semantic Construction from flat Analysis"

Address

Universität Stuttgart
IMS, Projekt "Verbmobil"
Azenbergstr. 12
D- 70174 Stuttgart

Tel.: +49-711-121-1363 (Secretary Ms. Laderer)
Fax: +49-711-121-1366
E-Mail: vm@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

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