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ORAL PRESENTATION Open AccessAn automatic system for the simultaneoustranslation of lecturesSebastian StükerFrom 9th German Conference on ChemoinformaticsFulda, Germany. 10-12 November 2013Lectures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) aremainly taught in German. Therefore, foreign studentsthat want to study at KIT need to learn German, andnot only at a conversational level, but must be proficientenough to follow highly scientific and technical lecturescarrying complex content. While foreign students oftentake a one year preparatory course that teaches themGerman, experience shows that even after that course,their German is not proficient enough to be able to fol-low German lectures and thus perform well.Since the use of human interpreters for bridging thelanguage barrier in lectures is too expensive, we want tosolve this issue with the help of our automatic simulta-neous lecture translation system. In this system weemploy the technology of spoken language translation(SLT), which combines automatic speech recognition(ASR) and machine translation (MT) to build a systemthat simultaneously translates lectures from German toEnglish.In this, university lectures are characterized by a mul-titude of diverse topics and a large amount of technicalterms. This poses specific challenges to a speech transla-tion system, e.g., a very specific vocabulary and languagemodel are needed. Also, in order to be able to translatesimultaneously, i.e., to interpret the lectures, the compo-nents of the systems need special modifications.Our system works with the help of a cloud based ser-vice infrastructure. The speech of the lecturer is recordedvia a lo cal client and sent to the service infrastructure. Aservice then manages the flow of the data through theASR, MT, and other components. The output of the sys-tem is delivered in the form or real- time subtitles via aweb site that can be accessed by the students attendingthe lecture through mobile phones, tablet computers orlaptops.Published: 11 March 2014doi:10.1186/1758-2946-6-S1-O7Cite this article as: Stüker: An automatic system for the simultaneoustranslation of lectures. Journal of Cheminformatics 2014 6(Suppl 1):O7.Open access provides opportunities to our colleagues in other parts of the globe, by allowing anyone to view the content free of charge.Publish with ChemistryCentral and everyscientist can read your work free of chargeW. Jeffery Hurst, The Hershey Company.available free of charge to the entire scientific communitypeer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptancecited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Centralyours     you keep the copyrightSubmit your manuscript here:http://www.chemistrycentral.com/manuscript/Correspondence: stueker@kit.eduInstitut für Anthropomatik (IFA), Adenauerring 2, 76135 Karlsruhe, GermanyStüker Journal of Cheminformatics 2014, 6(Suppl 1):O7http://www.jcheminf.com/content/6/S1/O7© 2014 Stüker; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

An automatic system for the simultaneous translation of lectures

Sebastian Stüker

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ORAL PRESENTATION Open Access
An automatic system for the simultaneous
translation of lectures
Sebastian Stüker
From 9th German Conference on Chemoinformatics
Fulda, Germany. 10-12 November 2013
Lectures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are
mainly taught in German. Therefore, foreign students
that want to study at KIT need to learn German, and
not only at a conversational level, but must be proficient
enough to follow highly scientific and technical lectures
carrying complex content. While foreign students often
take a one year preparatory course that teaches them
German, experience shows that even after that course,
their German is not proficient enough to be able to fol-
low German lectures and thus perform well.
Since the use of human interpreters for bridging the
language barrier in lectures is too expensive, we want to
solve this issue with the help of our automatic simulta-
neous lecture translation system. In this system we
employ the technology of spoken language translation
(SLT), which combines automatic speech recognition
(ASR) and machine translation (MT) to build a system
that simultaneously translates lectures from German to
English.
In this, university lectures are characterized by a mul-
titude of diverse topics and a large amount of technical
terms. This poses specific challenges to a speech transla-
tion system, e.g., a very specific vocabulary and language
model are needed. Also, in order to be able to translate
simultaneously, i.e., to interpret the lectures, the compo-
nents of the systems need special modifications.
Our system works with the help of a cloud based ser-
vice infrastructure. The speech of the lecturer is recorded
via a lo cal client and sent to the service infrastructure. A
service then manages the flow of the data through the
ASR, MT, and other components. The output of the sys-
tem is delivered in the form or real- time subtitles via a
web site that can be accessed by the students attending
the lecture through mobile phones, tablet computers or
laptops.
Published: 11 March 2014
doi:10.1186/1758-2946-6-S1-O7
Cite this article as: Stüker: An automatic system for the simultaneous
translation of lectures. Journal of Cheminformatics 2014 6(Suppl 1):O7.
Open access provides opportunities to our 
colleagues in other parts of the globe, by allowing 
anyone to view the content free of charge.
Publish with ChemistryCentral and every
scientist can read your work free of charge
W. Jeffery Hurst, The Hershey Company.
available free of charge to the entire scientific community
peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance
cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central
yours     you keep the copyright
Submit your manuscript here:
http://www.chemistrycentral.com/manuscript/Correspondence: stueker@kit.edu
Institut für Anthropomatik (IFA), Adenauerring 2, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Stüker Journal of Cheminformatics 2014, 6(Suppl 1):O7
http://www.jcheminf.com/content/6/S1/O7
© 2014 Stüker; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://
creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.


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