Verbmobil

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Verbmobil was a project for the speaker- independent machine translation of spontaneous speech between German , Japanese and English . The project was carried out in two phases from 1993-2000 under the leadership of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and funded with a total of 116 million  DM from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (as a lead project).

In order to narrow down the ambitious task, Verbmobil concentrated on the translation of dialogues in certain domains such as appointment, travel planning and hotel reservations. Scientific innovations of the lead project include: a. the use of intonation , the sentence melody to understand the content and the interlocking of flat and deep analysis components in a multi-blackboard architecture.

Verbmobil ended the project with the presentation and successful evaluation of the research prototype at the Verbmobil Symposium on July 30, 2010 in Saarbrücken. The system itself was not developed further into a product, but many other innovations have since emerged from it. These include a largely voice-controlled car, the reading of e-mails by the computer and an automatic music search for language terms on the Internet . The Verbmobil research prototype is today an exhibit in the demonstration center for language technology at the DFKI in Saarbrücken, another exhibit is the only software system in the Hall of Fame of the Deutsches Museum in Munich as a permanent exhibition on new technologies.

At the University of Tübingen , semi-automatically annotated tree banks (syntactically annotated text corpora ) for German, Japanese and English were created as part of the Verbmobil II project . The TüBa-D / S comprises approx. 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words. The TüBa-E / S comprises approx. 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words. The TüBa-J / S comprises approx. 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.

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Individual evidence

  1. Promo trailer on the Verbmobil homepage . Retrieved March 28, 2011.
  2. VERBMOBIL - Recognition, analysis, transfer, generation and synthesis of spontaneous speech . Retrieved March 28, 2011.
  3. Handelsblatt dated November 30, 2001 . Retrieved March 28, 2011.
  4. DFKI press release of December 29, 2010 . Retrieved March 28, 2011.
  5. ^ TüBa-D / S Tübinger Baumbank des Deutschen / Spontanssprache
  6. TüBa-E / S Tübingen tree bench of English / spontaneous language
  7. TüBa-J / S Tübingen tree bench of Japanese / Spontaneous language