Verbmobil

Verbmobil was a long-term interdisciplinary Language Technology (esp. Machine Translation) 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".[1]

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, the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie; industry partners (such as DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and Philips) contributed an additional 52 million DM (26 million euros).

In the Verbmobil II project, the University of Tübingen created semi-automatically annotated treebanks for German, Japanese and English spontaneous speech. TüBa-D/S[2] contains approximately 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words. TüBa-E/S[3] contains approximately 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words. TüBa-J/S[4] contains approximately 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.

Notes
  1. DFKI Verbmobil: Translation of Spontaneous Speech Archived February 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine German Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - short Verbmobil description
  2. TüBa-D/S Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Tübingen Treebank of German / Spontaneous Speech
  3. TüBa-E/S Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Tübingen Treebank of English / Spontaneous Speech
  4. TüBa-J/S Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Tübingen Treebank of Japanese / Spontaneous Speech
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