A Limited-Domain English to Japanese Medical Speech Translator Built Using REGULUS 2

We argue that verbal patient diagnosis is a promising application for limited-domain speech translation, and describe an architecture designed for this type of task which represents a compromise between principled linguistics-based processing on the one hand and efficient phrasal translation on the other. We propose to demonstrate a prototype system instantiating this architecture, which has been built on top of the Open Source REGULUS 2 platform. The prototype translates spoken yes-no questions about headache symptoms from English to Japanese, using a vocabulary of about 200 words.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Vol Van Dalsem III, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Beth Ann Hockey
• Keywords: ACL 2003, ACL 2007, Efficient Phrasal Translation, Limited-domain Speech Translation, Verbal Patient Diagnosis