La  tecnología habla-texto como herramienta de documentación para intérpretes: Nuevo método para compilar un corpus ad hoc y extraer terminología a partir de discursos orales en vídeo

Mahmoud Gaber; Gloria Corpas Pastor; Ahmed Omer

doi:10.24310/TRANS.2020.v0i24.7876

Authors

Mahmoud Gaber Universidad de Málaga Spain
Gloria Corpas Pastor Universidad de Málaga
Ahmed Omer Universidad de Wolverhampton United Kingdom

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2020.v0i24.7876

Keywords:

Speech-to-Text, computer-aided interpreting tools, terminology extraction, automatic speech recognition, ad hoc corpus, interpreting technologies.

Abstract

Although interpreting has not yet benefited from technology as much as its sister field, translation, interest in developing tailor-made solutions for interpreters has risen sharply in recent years. In particular, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is being used as a central component of Computer-Assisted Interpreting (CAI) tools, either bundled or standalone. This study pursues three main aims: (i) to establish the most suitable ASR application for building ad hoc corpora by comparing several ASR tools and assessing their performance; (ii) to use ASR in order to extract terminology from the transcriptions obtained from video-recorded speeches, in this case talks on climate change and adaptation; and (iii) to promote the adoption of ASR as a new documentation tool among interpreters. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first studies to explore the possibility of Speech-to-Text (S2T) technology for meeting the preparatory needs of interpreters as regards terminology and background/domain knowledge.

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Author Biographies

Mahmoud Gaber, Universidad de Málaga

Licenciado en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Al-Azhar, Egipto. Máster en Comunicación Intercultural, Interpretación y Traducción en los Servicios Públicos por la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, España. Traductor jurado, acreditado por el Ministerio de Justicia, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Ha realizado una estancia de investigación en el Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, Reino Unido. Actualmente becario predoctoral en el marco del Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su Empleabilidad del Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad para la formación de doctores.

Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga

PhD in English Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994). Visiting Professor in Translation Technology at the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing (RIILP) of the University of Wolverhampton, UK (since 2007), and Professor in Translation and Interpreting (2008). Spanish delegate for AEN/CTN 174 and CEN/BTTF 138, actively involved in the development of the UNE-EN 15038:2006 and currently involved in the future ISO Standard (ISO TC37/SC2-WG6 "Translation and Interpreting"), where she is in charge of ISO/AWI 20539 (Translation, interpreting and related technology – Vocabulary) and ISO/DIS 18841 (Interpreting services – General requirements and recommendations). President of the Evaluation and Verification Commission of the Arts and Humanities field at Fundación para el Conocimiento Madri+d and member of the specific committee for doctorate programmes at AQU. She is currently Director of the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Malaga.

Ahmed Omer, Universidad de Wolverhampton

Ph.D Researcher in Computational Linguistics, Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK. M.Sc in Information Technology, Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. B.Sc in Computer Science, Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Corpus Workbench Programmer, Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

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