Title :
“Can you give me another word for hyperbaric?”: Improving speech translation using targeted clarification questions
Author :
Ayan, Necip Fazil ; Mandal, Avirup ; Frandsen, Michael ; Jing Zheng ; Blasco, Pol ; Kathol, Andreas ; Bechet, Frederic ; Favre, Benoit ; Marin, A. ; Kwiatkowski, Tom ; Ostendorf, Mari ; Zettlemoyer, Luke ; Salletmayr, Philipp ; Hirschberg, Julia ; Stoyanc
Author_Institution :
SRI Int., Menlo Park, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present a novel approach for improving communication success between users of speech-to-speech translation systems by automatically detecting errors in the output of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. Our approach initiates system-driven targeted clarification about errorful regions in user input and repairs them given user responses. Our system has been evaluated by unbiased subjects in live mode, and results show improved success of communication between users of the system.
Keywords :
language translation; speech recognition; ASR; SMT systems; automatic speech recognition; automatically detecting errors; hyperbaric; speech-to-speech translation systems; statistical machine translation; system-driven targeted clarification; targeted clarification questions; Hidden Markov models; Lattices; Merging; Pragmatics; Speech; Speech recognition; Syntactics; Speech translation; error correction; error detection; spoken dialog systems;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639302
