Architectural Considerations for Conversational Systems -- The Verbmobil/INTARC Experience
Abstract
The paper describes the speech to speech translation system INTARC, developed during the first phase of the Verbmobil project. The general design goals of the INTARC system architecture were time synchronous processing as well as incrementality and interactivity as a means to achieve a higher degree of robustness and scalability. Interactivity means that in addition to the bottom-up (in terms of processing levels) data flow the ability to process top-down restrictions considering the same signal segment for all processing levels. The construction of INTARC 2.0, which has been operational since fall 1996, followed an engineering approach focussing on the integration of symbolic (linguistic) and stochastic (recognition) techniques which led to a generalization of the concept of a ``one pass'' beam search.
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@article{arxiv.cs/9907021,
title = {Architectural Considerations for Conversational Systems -- The Verbmobil/INTARC Experience},
author = {Guenther Goerz and Joerg Spilker and Volker Strom and Hans Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/9907021},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, to appear in proceedings of First International Workshop on Human Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy