The Spoken Language Translator

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Language Processing and Corpora: 2. Translation using the core language engine; 3. Grammar specialisation; 4. Choosing among interpretations; 5. The TreeBanker; 6. Acquisition of lexical entries; 7. Spelling and morphology; 8. Corpora and data collection; Part II. Linguistic Coverage: 9. English coverage; 10. French coverage; 11. Swedish coverage; 12. Transfer coverage; 13. Rational reuse of linguistic data; Part III. Speech Processing: 14. Speech recognition; 15. Acoustic modelling; 16. Language modelling for multilingual speech translation; 17. Porting a recogniser to a new language; 18. Multiple dialects and languages; 19. Common speech/language issues; Part IV. Evaluation and Conclusions: 20. Evaluation; 21. Conclusions; Appendix A: the mathematics of discriminant scores; Appendix B: notation for QLF-based processing; References; Index.

'… the book provides a fine overview of the main considerations in the development of a domain-specific speech translation system. The editors have ensured that the main issues are covered, and much effort has been made to ensure a balance in both form and contents from one chapter to another.' M. C. L'Homme, Computing Reviews