Verbmobil was a long-term interdisciplinary
Language Technology Language technology, often called human language technology (HLT), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. Working with language technology often requires broa ...
(esp.
Machine Translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates t ...
) research project with the aim of developing a system that could recognize, translate and produce natural utterances and thus "''translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese''".
Verbmobil research was carried out between 1993 and 2000 and received a total of 116 million German marks (roughly 60 million euros) in funding from Germany's Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, th
Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie industry partners (such as
DaimlerChrysler
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,
Siemens and
Philips
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) contributed an additional 52 million DM (26 million euros).
In the Verbmobil II project, the University of Tübingen created semi-automatically annotated
treebank
In linguistics, a treebank is a parsed text corpus that annotates syntactic or semantic sentence structure. The construction of parsed corpora in the early 1990s revolutionized computational linguistics, which benefitted from large-scale empiri ...
s for German, Japanese and English spontaneous speech.
TüBa-D/S contains approximately 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words.
TüBa-E/S contains approximately 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words.
TüBa-J/S contains approximately 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.
Notes
External links
DFKI Verbmobil OverviewGerman Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Verbmobil overview (in English)
DFKI Verbmobil PortalGerman Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Verbmobil portal page (in German)
Computational linguistics
Machine translation
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