Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities

Douglas Jones, Timothy Anderson, Sabine Atwell, Brian Delaney, James Dirgin, Michael Emots, Neil Granoein, Martha Herzog, Timothy Hunter, Sargon Jabri, Wade Shen, Jurgen Sottung


Abstract
We present observations from three exercises designed to map the effective listening and speaking skills of an operator of a speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. Such a mapping is non-trivial, but will be useful for government and military decision makers in managing expectations of S2S technology. We observed domain-dependent S2S capabilities in the ILR range of Level 0+ to Level 1, and interactive text-based machine translation in the Level 3 range.
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Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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August 8-12
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2006
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Douglas Jones, Timothy Anderson, Sabine Atwell, Brian Delaney, James Dirgin, Michael Emots, Neil Granoein, Martha Herzog, Timothy Hunter, Sargon Jabri, Wade Shen, and Jurgen Sottung. 2006. Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 82–89, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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