Speech translation tasks usually are different from text-based machine translation tasks, and the training data for speech translation tasks are usually very limited. Therefore, domain adaptation is crucial to achieve robust performance across different conditions in speech translation. In this paper, we study the problem of adapting a general-domain, writing-textstyle machine translation syste...

Abstract The aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. Communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. The interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. One context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. Color is an in...

Machine translation remains one of the grand challenge problems of natural language processing. Recent advances in the field have led to a number of applications demonstrating the potential and impact of the technology. Statistical machine translation (SMT) has emerged as the currently most promising approach to tackle the translation problem. During the last decade, it advanced to solidly outp...