Verbmobil


Verbmobil was a long-term interdisciplinary Language Technology research project with the aim to develop a system that can recognize, translate and produce natural utterances and thus "translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese".
Verbmobil research was carried out between 1993 and 2000 and was funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, the with a total of 116m Deutschmarks, industry partners contributed an additional 52 million DM.
In the Verbmobil II project, Tübingen University created semi-automatically annotated treebanks for German, Japanese and English spontaneous speech.
TüBa-D/S contains ca. 38,000 sentences or 360,000 words.
TüBa-E/S contains ca. 30,000 sentences or 310,000 words.
TüBa-J/S contains ca. 18,000 sentences or 160,000 words.