Verbmobil
Encyclopedia
Verbmobil was a long-term interdisciplinary Language Technology
(esp. Machine Translation
) research project with the aim to develop a system that can recognize, translate and produce natural utterances and thus "translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese".
Verbmobil research was carried out between 1993 and 2000 and was funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie with a total of 116m Deutschmarks (roughly 60m euros), industry partners (such as DaimlerChrysler
, Siemens
and Philips
) contributed an additional 52 million DM (26m euros).
In the Verbmobil II project, Tübingen University created semi-automatically annotated treebank
s for German, Japanese and English spontaneous speech.
TüBa-D/S contains ca. 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words.
TüBa-E/S contains ca. 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words.
TüBa-J/S contains ca. 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.
Language technology
Language technology is often called human language technology or natural language processing and consists of computational linguistics and speech technology as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and...
(esp. Machine Translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
) research project with the aim to develop a system that can recognize, translate and produce natural utterances and thus "translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese".
Verbmobil research was carried out between 1993 and 2000 and was funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie with a total of 116m Deutschmarks (roughly 60m euros), industry partners (such as DaimlerChrysler
DaimlerChrysler
Daimler AG is a German car corporation. By unit sales, it is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world. In addition to automobiles, Daimler manufactures buses and provides financial services through its Daimler Financial Services arm...
, Siemens
Siemens AG
Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
and Philips
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
) contributed an additional 52 million DM (26m euros).
In the Verbmobil II project, Tübingen University created semi-automatically annotated treebank
Treebank
A treebank or parsed corpus is a text corpus in which each sentence has been parsed, i.e. annotated with syntactic structure. Syntactic structure is commonly represented as a tree structure, hence the name Treebank...
s for German, Japanese and English spontaneous speech.
TüBa-D/S contains ca. 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words.
TüBa-E/S contains ca. 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words.
TüBa-J/S contains ca. 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.
External links
- DFKI Verbmobil Overview German Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Verbmobil overview (in English)
- DFKI Verbmobil Portal German Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Verbmobil portal page (in German)