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title = "Representational and architectural issues in a limited-domain medical speech translator",
author = "Rayner, Manny and
Bouillon, Pierrette and
Santaholma, Marianne and
Nakao, Yukie",
editor = "Jardino, Mich{\`e}le",
booktitle = "Actes de la 12{\`e}me conf{\'e}rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs",
month = jun,
year = "2005",
address = "Dourdan, France",
publisher = "ATALA",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2005.jeptalnrecital-long.17",
pages = "161--170",
abstract = "We present an overview of MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary medical speech translation system, focussing on the representational issues that arise when translating temporal and causal concepts. Although flat key/value structures are strongly preferred as semantic representations in speech understanding systems, we argue that it is infeasible to handle the necessary range of concepts using only flat structures. By exploiting the specific nature of the task, we show that it is possible to implement a solution which only slightly extends the representational complexity of the semantic representation language, by permitting an optional single nested level representing a subordinate clause construct. We sketch our solutions to the key problems of producing minimally nested representations using phrase-spotting methods, and writing cleanly structured rule-sets that map temporal and phrasal representations into a canonical interlingual form.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Representational and architectural issues in a limited-domain medical speech translator
%A Rayner, Manny
%A Bouillon, Pierrette
%A Santaholma, Marianne
%A Nakao, Yukie
%Y Jardino, Michèle
%S Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs
%D 2005
%8 June
%I ATALA
%C Dourdan, France
%F rayner-etal-2005-representational
%X We present an overview of MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary medical speech translation system, focussing on the representational issues that arise when translating temporal and causal concepts. Although flat key/value structures are strongly preferred as semantic representations in speech understanding systems, we argue that it is infeasible to handle the necessary range of concepts using only flat structures. By exploiting the specific nature of the task, we show that it is possible to implement a solution which only slightly extends the representational complexity of the semantic representation language, by permitting an optional single nested level representing a subordinate clause construct. We sketch our solutions to the key problems of producing minimally nested representations using phrase-spotting methods, and writing cleanly structured rule-sets that map temporal and phrasal representations into a canonical interlingual form.
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%P 161-170
Markdown (Informal)
[Representational and architectural issues in a limited-domain medical speech translator](https://aclanthology.org/2005.jeptalnrecital-long.17) (Rayner et al., JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2005)
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