Verbmobil - Erkennung, Analyse, Transfer, Generierung und Synthese von SpontanspracheVerbmobil is a long-term, interdisciplinary project in the field of
language technology.
The Verbmobil system recognizes spontaneous speech, analyses its content,
translates into another language, generates a sentence, and synthesises
the appropriate utterance. For travel planning, appointment scheduling,
and remote maintenance, Verbmobil intends to help with conversation with
foreign partners. IT companies, universities, and research centers are
partners
in Verbmobil, which is sponsored by the German ministry of education,
science, research, and technology (BMBF) in two phases:
1993-1996, and 1997-2000.In the first phase, the focus has been on appointment scheduling
dialogues between a German and a Japanese partner, with English
as interlingua. In the second phase, the project concentrates on
the robust and bi-directional translation of spontaneous dialogues
in the domain of travel planning and hotel reservation for
German - English (approx. 10.000 words) and German - Japanese (approx.
2.500 words). At the Chair for Pattern Recognition (Informatik 5),
modules are implemented for segmentation of spontaneous speech,
prosody, dialogue, and for the recognition of emotional user states. | Project manager: Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. h.c. Heinrich Niemann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Nöth
Project participants: Dr. phil. Anton Batliner, Dr.-Ing. Jan Buckow, Dr.-Ing. Richard Huber, Dr.-Ing. Volker Warnke
Keywords: Dialog; Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion; Sprachverarbeitung; Prosodie; automatische Übersetzung;Deutsch; Englisch; Japanisch
Duration: 1.1.1993 - 30.9.2000
Sponsored by: BMBF
Mitwirkende Institutionen: Daimler-Chrysler Daimler-Benz Aerospace Philips Siemens DFKI CSLI Universität des Saarlandes TU Berlin Universität Tübingen TU Dresden Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universität Hamburg Universität Karlsruhe Universität Stuttgart Universität Bonn TU Braunschweig TU München Universität Bielefeld LMU München RWTH-Aachen
Contact: Nöth, Elmar Phone +49 9131 85 27888, Fax +49 9131 85 27270, E-Mail: elmar.noeth@fau.de
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