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| Title | The KIT Lecture Corpus for Speech Translation |
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| Authors | Sebastian Stüker, Florian Kraft, Christian Mohr, Teresa Herrmann, Eunah Cho and Alex Waibel |
| Abstract | Academic lectures offer valuable content, but often do not reach their full potential audience due to the language barrier. Human translations of lectures are too expensive to be widely used. Speech translation technology can be an affordable alternative in this case. State-of-the-art speech translation systems utilize statistical models that need to be trained on large amounts of in-domain data. In order to support the KIT lecture translation project in its effort to introduce speech translation technology in KIT's lecture halls, we have collected a corpus of German lectures at KIT. In this paper we describe how we recorded the lectures and how we annotated them. We further give detailed statistics on the types of lectures in the corpus and its size. We collected the corpus with the purpose in mind that it should not just be suited for training a spoken language translation system the traditional way, but should also enable us to research techniques that enable the translation system to automatically and autonomously adapt itself to the varying topics and speakers of lectures |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Speech resource/database, Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation |
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The KIT Lecture Corpus for Speech Translation |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{STKER12.1121, author = {Sebastian Stüker and Florian Kraft and Christian Mohr and Teresa Herrmann and Eunah Cho and Alex Waibel}, title = {The KIT Lecture Corpus for Speech Translation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |