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SPEAKER:  Kiyoshi KOGURE
          ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories

TITLE:  Analyzing Spoken Japanese Sentences for Machine Translation

WHEN & WHERE:  Thursday, September 7th @ CSLI, Cordura Hall
               Conference Room, 3:00pm

ABSTRACT:

In this talk, I address a theoretical question: What kind of meaning
should be translated or preserved in dialogue translation?  At ATR, we
are developing a theory which makes it possible for the system to
translate illocutionary acts performed in untterances by directly
representing intentions of the speaker at the point of utterance.
        
This talk will be a continuation of the paper, "Analysing Japanese
spoken sentences based on HPSG," which I presented at the
Internatioinal Workshop on Parsing Technologies at CMU. It proposes an
integrated method which, based on unification based grammar, analyzes
speech recognition result lattices involving incorrectly as well as
correctly recognized constituents. The work underlining the talk was
jointly done at ATR with Kei Yosimoto, who is currently at NTT Basic
Labs.

I welcome comments and criticisms from CSLI researchers with various
backgrounds.