@inproceedings{wang-etal-2016-efficient,
    title = "An Efficient and Effective Online Sentence Segmenter for Simultaneous Interpretation",
    author = "Wang, Xiaolin  and
      Finch, Andrew  and
      Utiyama, Masao  and
      Sumita, Eiichiro",
    editor = "Nakazawa, Toshiaki  and
      Mino, Hideya  and
      Ding, Chenchen  and
      Goto, Isao  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao  and
      Riza, Ir. Hammam  and
      Bhattacharyya, Pushpak",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on {A}sian Translation ({WAT}2016)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/W16-4613/",
    pages = "139--148",
    abstract = "Simultaneous interpretation is a very challenging application of machine translation in which the input is a stream of words from a speech recognition engine. The key problem is how to segment the stream in an online manner into units suitable for translation. The segmentation process proceeds by calculating a confidence score for each word that indicates the soundness of placing a sentence boundary after it, and then heuristics are employed to determine the position of the boundaries. Multiple variants of the confidence scoring method and segmentation heuristics were studied. Experimental results show that the best performing strategy is not only efficient in terms of average latency per word, but also achieved end-to-end translation quality close to an offline baseline, and close to oracle segmentation."
}