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Advances in Czech – Signed Speech Translation

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This article describes advances in Czech – Signed Speech translation. A method using a new criterion based on minimal loss principle for log-linear model phrase extraction was introduced and it was evaluated against two another criteria. The performance of phrase table extracted with introduced method was compared with performance of two another phrase tables (manually and automatically extracted). A new criterion for semantic agreement evaluation of translations was introduced too.

This research was supported by the Grant Agency of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, project No. 1ET101470416 and by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, project No. MŠMT LC536.

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Kanis, J., Müller, L. (2009). Advances in Czech – Signed Speech Translation. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_10

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