Towards High-Reliability Speech Translation in the Medical Domain
Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yūji Matsumoto, Ryosuke Isotani, Yukichi Ikeda · 2013
In this paper, we describe the overall de-sign for a speech translation system that aims to reduce the problems caused by lan-guage barriers in medical situations. As first steps to building a system according to this design, we describe a collection of a medical corpus, and some translation ex-periments performed on this corpus. As a result of the experiments, we find that the best of three modern translation systems is able to translate 33%-81 % of the sentences in a way such that the main content is un-derstandable. 1