Marsal Gavaldá

Also published as: Marsal Gavalda, Marsal Gavaldà


2000

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SOUP: A Parser for Real-world Spontaneous Speech
Marsal Gavaldà
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies

This paper describes the key features of SOUP, a stochastic, chart-based, top-down parser, especially engineered for real-time analysis of spoken language with very large, multi-domain semantic grammars. SOUP achieves flexibility by encoding context-free grammars, specified for example in the Java Speech Grammar Format, as probabilistic recursive transition networks, and robustness by allowing skipping of input words at any position and producing ranked interpretations that may consist of multiple parse trees. Moreover, SOUP is very efficient, which allows for practically instantaneous backend response.

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Epiphenomenal Grammar Acquisition with GSG
Marsal Gavalda
ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop: Conversational Systems

1998

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Growing Semantic Grammars
Marsal Gavalda | Alex Waibel
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

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A modular approach to spoken language translation for large domains
Monika Woszczcyna | Matthew Broadhead | Donna Gates | Marsal Gavaldá | Alon Lavie | Lori Levin | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers

The MT engine of the JANUS speech-to-speech translation system is designed around four main principles: 1) an interlingua approach that allows the efficient addition of new languages, 2) the use of semantic grammars that yield low cost high quality translations for limited domains, 3) modular grammars that support easy expansion into new domains, and 4) efficient integration of multiple grammars using multi-domain parse lattices and domain re-scoring. Within the framework of the C-STAR-II speech-to-speech translation effort, these principles are tested against the challenge of providing translation for a number of domains and language pairs with the additional restriction of a common interchange format.

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Growing Semantic Grammars
Marsal Gavaldà | Alex Waibel
COLING 1998 Volume 1: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1997

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High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information
Marsal Gavalda | Klaus Zechner | Gregory Aist
Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

1996

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JANUS: multi-lingual translation of spontaneous speech in limited domain
Alon Lavie | Lori Levin | Alex Waibel | Donna Gates | Marsal Gavalda | Laura Mayfield
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

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Multi-lingual Translation of Spontaneously Spoken Language in a Limited Domain
Alon Lavie | Donna Gates | Marsal Gavalda | Laura Mayfield | Alex Waibel | Lori Levin
COLING 1996 Volume 1: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics