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Paper:	SS-13.5
Session:	Speech Translation for Cross-Lingual Communication
Time:	Friday, May 19, 17:50 - 18:10
Presentation:	Special Session Lecture
Topic:	Special Sessions: Speech translation for cross-lingual communication
Title:	ASR AND TRANSLATION FOR UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES
Authors:	Laurent Besacier, Viet-Bac Le, Christian Boitet, Vincent Berment, CLIPS / IMAG, France
Abstract:	There are more than 6000 languages in the world but only a small number possess the resources required for implementation of Human Language Technologies (HLT). Thus, languages from developing countries or minorities have been less worked on in the past years. One way of improving this "language divide" is do more research on portability of HLT for multilingual applications. In this paper, we concentrate on speech-to-speech translation. We present here our methodology for fast development of ASR systems for under-resourced languages. We present the resources collected for Vietnamese, and the experimental results of our first Vietnamese ASR system. The current validation of our methodology for Khmer is described next. We also discuss some issues related to machine translation and present first contributions of our laboratory in this context.