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ATR's MATRIX

The Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) developed a MT system too, called MATRIX (Multilingual Automatic TRanslation system for Information eXchange). The special feature of this system is that it was devised for spoken translation of spoken language.

Therefore it includes a real-time speech recognition module, a translation module, and a speech synthesis module including several voices. An experimental system was under development in July 1998, which could recognize 3,000 words and translate 10,000 words. The translation module mixes an example-based and a rule-based approach, and uses a dictionary for the structural transfer between languages. It also uses a series of translation examples that are generalized in the case where there are similarities with the sentence to translate.



Jean-Philippe Vert
Sun Dec 6 11:05:42 MET 1998