Toward an interagency language roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilitites
August 12, 2006
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AMTA 2006, 7th Biennial Conf. of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 8-12 August 2006.
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Toward an interagency language roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilitites
Summary
We present observations from three exercises designed to map the effective listening and speaking skills of an operator of a speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. Such a mapping is nontrivial, but will be useful for government and military decision makers in managing expectations of S2S technology. We observed domain-dependent S2S capabilities in the ILR range of Level 0+ to Level 1, and interactive text-based machine translation in the Level 3 range.