International Business Machines Corporation

Yonggang Deng

Yuqing Gao

Bing Xiang

Ruhi Sarikaya

Brian Edward Doorenbos Kingsbury

A system and method for speech translation includes a bridge module connected between a first component and a second component. The bridge module includes a transformation model configured to receive an original hypothesis output from a first component. The transformation model has one or more transformation features configured to transform the original hypothesis into a new hypothesis that is more easily translated by the second component.

System and method for applying bridging models for robust and efficient speech to speech translation

A system and method for training a statistical machine translation model and decoding or translating using the same is disclosed. A source word versus target word co-occurrence matrix is created to define word pairs. Dimensionality of the matrix may be reduced. Word pairs are mapped as vectors into continuous space where the word pairs are vectors of continuous real numbers and not discrete entities in the continuous space. A machine translation parametric model is trained using an acoustic model training method based on word pair vectors in the continuous space.

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