A Prototype Automatic Simultaneous Interpretation System

Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita


Abstract
Simultaneous interpretation allows people to communicate spontaneously across language boundaries, but such services are prohibitively expensive for the general public. This paper presents a fully automatic simultaneous interpretation system to address this problem. Though the development is still at an early stage, the system is capable of keeping up with the fastest of the TED speakers while at the same time delivering high-quality translations. We believe that the system will become an effective tool for facilitating cross-lingual communication in the future.
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C16-2007
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hideo Watanabe
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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30–34
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Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2016. A Prototype Automatic Simultaneous Interpretation System. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 30–34, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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