MachineTranslationAutomatedSpeechRecognition.ppt

Machine Translation Automated Speech Recognition Jaime Carbonell With Richard Stern and Alex Rudnicky Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University Telephone: +1 412 268 7279 Fax: +1 412 268 6298 jgc@cs.cmu.edu For Samsung, February 20, 2008 Outline of Presentation Machine Translation (MT): Three major paradigms for MT (transfer, example-based, statistical) New method: Context-Based MT Automated Speech Recognition (ASR): The Sphinx family of recognizers Environmental Robustness for ASR Intelligent Tutoring for English Native Accent: Pronunciation product Grammar, Vocabulary other tutotring Components for Virtual English Village Language Technologies BILL OF RIGHTS TECHNOLGY (e.g.) “…right information” “…right people” “…right time” “…right medium” “…right language” “…right level of detail” IR (search engines) Routing, personalization Anticipatory analysis Speech: ASR, TTS Machine translation Summarization, Drill down Machine Translation:Context is Needed to Resolve Ambiguity Example: English ? Japanese Power line – densen (電線) Subway line – chikatetsu (地下鉄) (Be) on line – onrain (オンライン) (Be) on the line – denwachuu (電話中) Line up – narabu (並ぶ) Line one’s pockets – kanemochi ni naru (金持ちになる) Line one’s jacket – uwagi o nijuu ni suru (上着を二重にする) Actor’s line – serifu (セリフ) Get a line on – joho o eru (情報を得る) Sometimes local context suffices (as above) . . . but sometimes not CONTEXT: More is Better Examples requiring longer-range context: “The line for the new play extended for 3 blocks.” “The line for the new play was changed by the scriptwriter.” “The line for the new play got tangled with the other props.” “The line for the new play better protected the quarterback.” Better MT requires better context sensitivity Syntax-rule based MT ? little or no context EBMT ? potentially long context on exact substring matches SMT