Perspectives for incremental MT with charts
Jan W. Amtrup · 2011
Obviously, human speech comprehension works in an incremental way: Unbiased introspection as well as evidence from psycholinguistics strongly suggest that we start to recognize a word before it has been completely uttered; even more, we may interrupt our conversation partner at that point if we disagree with what we think (s)he will be saying. Thus, incrementality is not restricted to any particular level of human speech comprehension, but is a general principle that is valid for all levels of processing --- thus making simultaneous interpretation possible. From a more technical point of view, incrementality would offer several advantages when constructing a machine interpretation system. The enormous processing amount that is necessary to cope with e.g. input consisting of continuous and spontaneous speech can partially be reduced by means of incremental processing. There have been several investigations on the use of incrementality for natural language understanding at various levels...