Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Mobile Speech-to-Speech Translation of Spontaneous Dialogs: An Overview of the Final Verbmobil System.- Facts and Figures about the Verbmobil Project.- Multilingual Speech Recognition.- Robust Recognition of Spontaneous Speech.- Fast Search for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.- Capturing Long Range Correlations Using Log-Linear Language Models.- Data Driven Generation of Pronunciation Dictionaries.- The Prosody Module.- The Recognition of Emotion.- Processing Self-Corrections in a Speech-to-Speech System.- Integrated Shallow Linguistic Processing.- Probabilistic LR-Parsing with Symbolic Postprocessing.- Robust Chunk Parsing for Spontaneous Speech.- Verbmobil Interface Terms (VITs).- Semantic Construction.- Deep Linguistic Analysis with HPSG.- HPSG Analysis of German.- HPSG Analysis of English.- HPSG Analysis of Japanese.- Efficient and Robust Parsing of Word Hypotheses Graphs.- Speech Lexica and Consistent Multilingual Vocabularies.- Combining Analyses from Various Parsers.- Robust Semantic Processing of Spoken Language.- Discourse and Dialog Semantics for Translation.- Multilingual Semantic Databases.- Semantic-Based Transfer.- Statistical Methods for Machine Translation.- Adapting a Large Scale MT System for Spoken Language.- Example-Based Incremental Synchronous Interpretation.- Example-Based Machine Translation with Templates.- Robust Content Extraction for Translation and Dialog Processing.- Modeling Negotiation Dialogs.- Dialog Processing.- Contextual Disambiguation.- The Verbmobil Generation Component VM-GECO.- The Application of HPSG-to-TAG Compilation Techniques.- Generating Multilingual Dialog Summaries and Minutes.- Speech Synthesis Using Multilevel Selection and Concatenation of Units from Large Speech Corpora.- Verbmobil Data Collection and Annotation.-The Tübingen Treebanks for Spoken German, English, and Japanese.- Multilingual Verbmobil-Dialogs: Experiments, Data Collection and Data Analysis.- Speech Recognition Performance Assessment.- Speech

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and a Professor of Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. In 2000, he was coopted as a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the same university. In addition, he is the Head of the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab at DFKI.

He was the Scientific Director of the Verbmobil consortium on spontaneous speech translation (1993-2000), the SmartKom consortium on multimodal dialog systems (1999-2003), and the SmartWeb consortium on mobile multimodal access to semantic web services (2004-2008).

He has authored more than 150 technical papers and 6 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces, and edited many books, among them the Springer titles "Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation", "SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems", and "SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things". His research includes multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, embodied conversational agents, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies.

He was awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (German Future Award) in 2001 and he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006.

He is the Chief Academic Advisor for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Research Union of the German Government, he is a member or chair of many key international scientific advisory and governance boards, including the National Institute of Informatics (NII) of Japan, the jury for the European ICT Prize of the European Commission, the SingaporeAgency for Science, Technology and Research, the SAP Next Business & Technology Advisory Board, the Center for Advanced Security Research in