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  <Title>A Formal Basis for Spoken Language Translation by Analogy</Title>
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6 Conclusions and Further Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Ba.~ed on the probabilistic model of analogical matching, we have implemented a prototype that translates from Japanese to English in a limited domain. The application domain for the prototype are expressions for traveling in a foreign country, such as expressions related to making reservations or dining in a restaurant.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The initial results from our prototype are very promising, but extension of system coverage and subsequent large-scale evaluation is needed. Additional topics for further work include the estimation of lexical probabilities from bilingual corpora; improving the integration between the speech recognition and the translation components in order to increase recognition accuracy and translation robustness; and extending the system to additional languages. null</Paragraph>
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