- DomainAlon Lavie, Lori S. Levin, A. Waibel, D. Gates, Marsal Gavaldà. 2007. JANUS: a Multi-lingual Speech-to-speech Translation System for Spontaneously Spoken Language in a Limited Domain. Abstract: .Ta.mu; is a. rnulLi-lingual r,;peech tra.nr,;la.tion :;yr,;tem currently opera.ting in the domain of meeting r,;cheduling. Tra.nslating spontaneom; speech require:, a high degree of rolmstness to overcome the disfluenries of spoken l;wguage as well as errors in speerh rerognition. In t his system desuiption , we focus on the robust speech translation cornµonents in Janus-the skiµping GLR* par:;er, the segmentation of full utterances into semantic dialogue units (SDU s), and the late-stage disambigua tion of utterances. \Ve will also describe how the end-to-end translation performance of the system i:; evaluated and pre:,cnL our la.test Spanish-Lo-English cvaluaLion rc:,ulLs.
