@inproceedings{woszczcyna-etal-1998-modular,
    title = "A modular approach to spoken language translation for large domains",
    author = "Woszczcyna, Monika  and
      Broadhead, Matthew  and
      Gates, Donna  and
      Gavald{\'a}, Marsal  and
      Lavie, Alon  and
      Levin, Lori  and
      Waibel, Alex",
    editor = "Farwell, David  and
      Gerber, Laurie  and
      Hovy, Eduard",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers",
    month = oct # " 28-31",
    year = "1998",
    address = "Langhorne, PA, USA",
    publisher = "Springer",
    url = "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_3",
    pages = "31--49",
    abstract = "The MT engine of the JANUS speech-to-speech translation system is designed around four main principles: 1) an interlingua approach that allows the efficient addition of new languages, 2) the use of semantic grammars that yield low cost high quality translations for limited domains, 3) modular grammars that support easy expansion into new domains, and 4) efficient integration of multiple grammars using multi-domain parse lattices and domain re-scoring. Within the framework of the C-STAR-II speech-to-speech translation effort, these principles are tested against the challenge of providing translation for a number of domains and language pairs with the additional restriction of a common interchange format.",
}