"Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation" Editor: Wolfgang Wahlster Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Barcelona, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo: Springer, 2000 Series: "Artificial Intelligence" Publication Date: July 31, 2000 679 Pages with 224 Figures and 88 Tables Recommended List Price: DM 129,- ISSN 1431-0066 ISBN 3-540-67783-6 see also: http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-67783-6 Table of Contents Foreword v Acknowledgements vii

Introduction Mobile Speech-to-Speech Translation of Spontaneous Dialogs: An Overview of the Final Verbmobil System. Page 3 (Word-Version: ww.doc) Wolfgang Wahlster Facts and Figures about the Verbmobil Project. Page 22 (Word-Version: Facts.doc) Reinhard Karger and Wolfgang Wahlster   From Speech Input to Augmented Word Lattices Multilingual Speech Recognition. Page 33 Alex Waibel, Hagen Soltau, Tanja Schultz, Thomas Schaaf and Florian Metze   Robust Recognition of Spontaneous Speech. Page 46 Udo Haiber, Helmut Mangold, Thilo Pfau, Peter Regel-Brietzmann, Günther Ruske and Volker Schleß   Fast Search for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition. Page 63 Stephan Kanthak, Achim Sixtus, Sirko Molau, Ralf Schlüter and Hermann Ney   Capturing Long Range Correlations Using Log-Linear Language Models. Page 79 Jochen Peters and Dietrich Klakow   Data Driven Generation of Pronunciation Dictionaries. Page 95 Matthias Eichner, Matthias Wolff and Rüdiger Hoffmann   The Prosody Module. Page 106 Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth and Volker Warnke   The Recognition of Emotion. Page 122 Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth, Jörg Spilker and Kerstin Fischer   Processing Self-Corrections in a Speech-to-Speech System. Page 131 Jörg Spilker, Martin Klarner and Günther Görz Lexical and Syntactic Processing Integrated Shallow Linguistic Processing. Page 143 Hans Ulrich Block and Tobias Ruland   Probabilistic LR-Parsing with Symbolic Postprocessing. Page 147 Tobias Ruland   Robust Chunk Parsing for Spontaneous Speech. Page 163 Erhard W. Hinrichs, Sandra Kübler, Valia Kordoni and Frank H. Müller   Verbmobil Interface Terms (VITs). Page 183 Michael Schiehlen, Johan Bos and Michael Dorna   Semantic Construction. Page 200 Michael Schiehlen Deep Linguistic Analysis with HPSG. Page 217 Hans Uszkoreit, Dan Flickinger, Walter Kasper and Ivan A. Sag   HPSG Analysis of German. Page 239 Stefan Müller and Walter Kasper   HPSG Analysis of English. Page 255 Dan Flickinger, Ann Copestake and Ivan A. Sag   HPSG Analysis of Japanese. Page 265 Melanie Siegel   Efficient and Robust Parsing of Word Hypotheses Graphs. Page 281 Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Mark-Jan Nederhof   Speech Lexica and Consistent Multilingual Vocabularies. Page 297 Dafydd Gibbon and Harald Lüngen   Semantic Processing Combining Analyses From Various Parsers. Page 311 C.J. Rupp, Jörg Spilker, Martin Klarner and Karsten L. Worm   Robust Semantic Processing of Spoken Language. Page 322 Manfred Pinkal, C.J. Rupp and Karsten Worm   Discourse and Dialog Semantics for Translation. Page 337 Johan Bos and Julia Heine   Multilingual Semantic Databases. Page 349 Walter Kasper   Dialog Translation Semantic-Based Transfer. Page 361 Martin C. Emele, Michael Dorna, Anke Lüdeling, Heike Zinsmeister, Christian Rohrer   Statistical Methods for Machine Translation. Page 379 Stephan Vogel, Franz Josef Och, Christof Tillmann, Sonja Nießen, Hassan Sawaf and Hermann Ney   Adapting a Large Scale MT System for Spoken Language. Page 396 Hans Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl and Manfred Gehrke   Example-Based Incremental Synchronous Interpretation. Page 413 Hans Ulrich Block   Example-Based Machine Translation with Templates. Page 420 Marko Auerswald   Robust Content Extraction for Translation and Dialog Processing. Page 430 Norbert Reithinger and Ralf Engel   Dialog Processing and Context Evaluation Modeling Negotiation Dialogs. Page 443 Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel, Michael Kipp, Stephan Koch, Uwe Küssner, Norbert Reithinger and Manfred Stede   Dialog Processing. Page 454 Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel and Norbert Reithinger   Contextual Disambiguation. Page 468 Stephan Koch, Uwe Küssner and Manfred Stede   Language Generation and Speech Synthesis The Verbmobil Generation Component VM-GECO. Page 483 Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez and Peter Poller   The Application of HPSG-to-TAG Compilation Techniques. Page 499 Tilman Becker and Patrice Lopez   Generating Multilingual Dialog Summariesand Minutes. Page 509 Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller and Michael Kipp   Speech Synthesis Using Multilevel Selection and Concatenation of Units from Large Speech Corpora. Page 521 Karlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Jörg Helbig, Stefanie Köster, David Stall, Matthias Thomae, Jens Blauert, Wolfgang Hess, Rüdiger Hoffmann and Helmut Mangold   Data Collection and Evaluation Verbmobil Data Collection and Annotation. Page 539 Susanne Burger, Karl Weilhammer, Florian Schiel and Hans G. Tillmann   The Tübingen Treebanks for Spoken German, English, and Japanese. Page 552 Erhard W. Hinrichs, Julia Bartels, Yasuhiro Kawata, Valia Kordoni and Heike Telljohann   Multilingual Verbmobil-Dialogs: Experiments, Data Collection and Data Analysis. Page 577 Susanne J. Jekat and Walther v. Hahn   Speech Recognition Performance Assessment. Page 585 Michael Malenke, Marcus Bäumler and Erwin Paulus   Speech Synthesis Quality Assessment. Page 594 Jochen Steffens and Erwin Paulus   From Off--line Evaluation to On--line Selection. Page 599 Damir Cavar, Uwe Küssner and Dan Tidhar   Functional Validation of a Machine Interpretation System: Verbmobil. Page 613 Lorenzo Tessiore and Walther v. Hahn   System Architecture and Software Integration Verbmobil From a Software Engineering Point of View: System Design and Software Integration. Page 637 Andreas Klüter, Alassane Ndiaye and Heinz Kirchmann   From a Stationary Prototype to Telephone Translation Services. Page 661 Heinz Kirchmann, Alassane Ndiaye and Andreas Klüter   List of Contributors. Page 673 07.08.2000 Webmaster