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This chapter presents the Verbmobil generation component VM-GECO. The main modules of our component—microplanner and syntactic generator—are illuminated in detail focusing on the problems of real-time computation, multilinguality, dependencies among choices and the use of different representation formalisms. We discuss robustness as an important feature of large-scale systems with spontaneous and erroneous input.
We thank Wolfgang Finkler—who was member of the project from 1993 until 1998—for his important contribution to the design and development of our generator.
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Becker, T., Kilger, A., Lopez, P., Poller, P. (2000). The Verbmobil Generation Component VM-GECO. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation. Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4_35
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