Multimodal speech-to-speech language translation and display
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYuqing Gao, Liang Gu, Fu-Hua Liu, Jeffrey Sorensen
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYuqing Gao, Liang Gu, Fu-Hua Liu, Jeffrey Sorensen
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A multimodal speech-to-speech language translation system and method for translating a natural language sentence of a source language into a symbolic representation and/or target language is provided. The system includes an input device for inputting a natural language sentence of a source language into the system; a translator for receiving the natural language sentence in machine-readable form and translating the natural language sentence into a symbolic representation and/or a target language; and an image display for displaying the symbolic representation of the natural language sentence. Additionally, the image display indicates a correlation between text of the target language, the symbolic representation and the text of the source language.
A language translation system comprising:
A method for translating a language, the method comprising the steps of:
The method as in claim 16, further comprising the step of extracting a language independent representation of the natural language sentence from the semantic parse tree.
A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform the method steps for translating a language, the method steps comprising:
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