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The Janus-III system translates spoken languages in limiteddomains. The current research focus is on expanding beyond tasksinvolving a single limited semantic domain to significantly broaderand richer domains. To achieve this goal, The MT components of oursystem have been engineered to build and manipulate multi-domain parselattices that are based on modular grammars for multiple semanticdomains. This approach yields solutions to several problems includingmulti-domain disambiguation, segmentation of spoken utterances intosentence units, modularity of system design, and re-use of earliersystems with incompatible output.
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Levin, L., Lavie, A., Woszczyna, M. et al. The Janus-III Translation System: Speech-to-Speech Translation in Multiple Domains. Machine Translation 15, 3–25 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011186420821
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