Spoken Language Translation: Past, Present, and Future
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This talk will offer some history of the field of automatic speech-to-speech translation (combining speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech); give a quick tour of the state of the art; and speculate about future developments, with special interest in deep semantics.
Dr. Mark Seligman is Founder and President of Spoken Translation, Inc. (http://www.spokentranslation.com/) From 1983 until 1991, he was lead software trainer with IntelliCorp, Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence programming tools. In parallel, he pursued doctoral studies in linguistics at UC Berkeley, with a 1991 dissertation on the automatic generation of multi-paragraph discourses.
After graduation, he spent three years at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Institute International, Japan’s premier communications consortium, studying numerous aspects of speech-to-speech translation. Back in the U.S. from 1995, he continued his academic career as a Research Associate at GETA (the Groupe d’Étude pour la Traduction Automatique) at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, and as invited advisor at DFKI (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz) in Saarbrücken, Germany.
In 1997 and 1998, in cooperation with CompuServe, Inc., he organized the first automatic speech translation system anywhere demonstrating broad coverage with acceptable quality. From 1998, he was Publications Manager with Inxight Software, Inc., commercializing linguistic and visualization programs developed at PARC. In 2002, he left to establish Spoken Translation, Inc.
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