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Table 6: Evaluation of Translation for Audio Transcription of the Spanish-English Pair. Based
on 84 UTTs.
SCORES FORM CONTENT
Perfect 96.42% 91.66%
OK+ 2.38% 3.57%
OK 0% 0%
OK- 0% 3.57%
Unacceptable 1.20% 1.20%
Table 7: Evaluation of Translation for Audio Transcription of the English-Catalan Pair. Based
on 117 UTTs.
SCORES FORM CONTENT
Perfect 89.75% 88.89%
OK+ 8.55% 1.70%
OK 1.70% 0.85%
OK- 0% 4.28%
Unacceptable 0% 4.28%
Table 8: Evaluation of Translation for Audio Transcription of the English-Spanish Pair. Based
on 125 UTTs.
SCORES FORM CONTENT
Perfect 95.2% 82.4%
OK+ 4% 7.2%
OK 0.8% 3.2%
OK- 0% 5.6%
Unacceptable 0% 1.6%
4. Interchange Format
In this section, we discuss the use of the Interchange Format (IF) for Machine
Translation, and then we examine some problems of applying IF to new languages such
as Catalan and Spanish.
4.1 Introduction to Interchange Format and Discussion
IF is based on Searle’s Theory of Speech Acts (Searle 1969). It tries to represent
the speaker’s intention rather than the meaning of the sentence per se. In the hotel
reservation domain, there are several speech acts, such as giving information about
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