- Eunah Cho, J. Niehues, A. Waibel. 2017. NMT-Based Segmentation and Punctuation Insertion for Real-Time Spoken Language Translation. Abstract: Insertion of proper segmentation and punctuation into an ASR transcript is crucial not only for the performance of subsequent applications but also for the readability of the text. In a simultaneous spoken language translation system, the segmentation model has to fulfill real-time constraints and minimize latency as well. In this paper, we show the successful integration of an attentional encoder-decoder-based segmentation and punctuation insertion model into a real-time spoken language translation system. The proposed technique can be easily integrated into the real-time framework and improve the punctuation performance on reference transcripts as well as on ASR outputs. Compared to the conventional language model and prosody-based model, our experiments on end-to-end spoken language translation show that translation performance is improved by 1.3 BLEU points by adopting the NMT-based punctuation model, maintaining low-latency.
