HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop

Medical Speech Translation

9 June 2006

New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, NY, USA

Table of Contents

Usability Issues in an Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Healthcare

Mark Seligman and Mike Dillinger .................................................................................................................................................................................1

Evaluating Task Performance for a Unidirectional Controlled Language Medical Speech Translation System

Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander and Beth Ann Hockey .................................................9

Speech to Speech Translation for Medical Triage in Korean

Farzad Ehsani, Jim Kinzey, Demetrios Master, Karen Lesea and Hunil Park ..................................................................................................................17

Automated Interpretation of Clinical Encounters with Cultural Cues and Electronic Health Record Generation

Daniel T. Heinze, Alexander Turchin and V. Jagannathan ............................................................................................................................................24

Language Engineering and the Pathway to Healthcare: A User-Oriented View

Harold Somers ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................32

Converser (TM): Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation for Healthcare

Mike Dillinger and Mark Seligman ................................................................................................................................................................................40

MedSLT: A Limited-Domain Unidirectional Grammar-Based Medical Speech Translator

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, Beth Ann Hockey, Yukie Nakao, Hitoshi Isahara and

Kyoko Kanzaki........................................................................................................................................................................................................................44

S-MINDS 2-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation System

Farzad Ehsani, Jim Kinzey, Demetrios Master, Karen Sudre, David Domingo and Hunil Park ............................................................................................48

Accultran: Automated Interpretation of Clinical Encounters with Cultural Cues and Electronic Health Record Generation

Daniel T. Heinze, Alexander Turchin and V. Jagannathan ...............................................................................................................................................50

A Multi-Lingual Decision Support Prototype for the Medical Domain

David Dinh, Dennis Chan and Jack Chen .......................................................................................................................................................................53

IBM MASTOR SYSTEM: Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator

Yuqing Gao, Gu Liang, Bowen Zhou, Ruhi Sarikaya, Mohamed Afify, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Wei-zhong Zhu, Yonggang Deng, Charles Prosser, Wei Zhang and Laurent Besacier ........................................................................................................................................................................................................57

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