- W. Minker, Marsal Gavaldà, A. Waibel. 1999. Hidden Understanding Models for Machine Translation. Abstract: We demonstrate the portability of a stochastic method for understanding natural language from a setting of human-machine interactions (ATIS - Air Travel Information Services and MASK Multimodal Multimedia Automated Service Kiosk) into the more open one of human-to-human interactions. The application we use is the English Spontaneous Speech Task (ESST) for multilingual appointment scheduling. Spoken language systems developed for this task translate spontaneous conversational speech among different languages.
