Hybrid Machine Translation Applied to Media Monitoring
Hassan Sawaf, Braddock Gaskill, Michael Veronis · Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · 2008
In this paper, a system is presented that recognizes spoken utterances in Arabic Dialects which are translated into text in English. The input is recorded from a broadcast channel and recognized using automatic speech recognition that recognize Modern Standard Arabic and Iraqi Colloquial Arabic. The recognized utterances are normalized into Modern Standard Arabic and the output of this Modern Standard Arabic interlingua is then translated by a hybrid machine translation system, combining statistical and rule-based features.