Design and Implementation of a Chinese- To-english Spoken Language Translation System

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Chinese-to-English spoken language translation system. The system employs the multiple translation engines, and it consists of a template-based translator, a semantic parsing based translator (SPBT) and a statistic based translator (SBT) as well. SPBT uses the interchange format (IF) to represent the understanding results of input utterance. The target language generator generates the translation results according to IF. The dialog knowledge manager is designed to record the dialog history and help the Chinese parser to find the topics of the analyzing utterance. Now the system is under construction, and it is restricted in the domain of hotel reservation. Some preliminary experimental results are reported in the paper.