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Paper:	SS-13.6
Session:	Speech Translation for Cross-Lingual Communication
Time:	Friday, May 19, 18:10 - 18:30
Presentation:	Special Session Lecture
Topic:	Special Sessions: Speech translation for cross-lingual communication
Title:	Rapid Development of a Speech Translation System for Korean
Authors:	Farzad Ehsani, Jim Kimzey, Demitrios Master, Sehda, Inc., United States; Hunil Park, Independent Consultant, United States; Karen Sudre, Sehda, Inc., United States
Abstract:	S-MINDS is a hand held, speech translation engine, which allows an English speaker to communicate with a non-English speaker easily within a question and answer, interview style format. It can handle limited dialogs such as medical triage or hospital admissions. We have been able to build a English to Korean medical interviews system in 4 months time. The formal system evaluation indicated a translation accuracy of 79.8% (for English) and 78.3% (for Korean) for all non-rejected utterances. In this paper, we will discuss the performance of S-MINDS as well as complete analysis of our results including the various problems we encountered during deployment.