<s>
MedSLT	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
medium-ranged	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
spoken	O
language	O
translator	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Geneva	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
gap	O
between	O
need	O
and	O
availability	O
of	O
language	O
services	O
might	O
be	O
closed	O
with	O
speech	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
's	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Nuance	O
8.5	O
platform	O
that	O
supports	O
grammar-based	O
language	B-Language
models	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
core	O
grammars	O
are	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
open-source	B-License
Regulus	B-General_Concept
Grammar	I-General_Concept
Compiler	I-General_Concept
and	O
are	O
automatically	O
specialised	O
using	O
corpus-driven	O
methods	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
specialisation	O
uses	O
the	O
explanation-based	B-General_Concept
learning	I-General_Concept
algorithm	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
treebank	O
from	O
the	O
training	O
corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
examples	O
are	O
divided	O
into	O
sets	O
of	O
subtrees	O
by	O
using	O
domain	O
-	O
and	O
grammar-specific	O
rules	O
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
"	O
operationality	O
criteria	O
"	O
in	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compilation	O
by	O
Nuance-specific	O
criteria	O
turns	O
the	O
grammar	O
into	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
packages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
final	O
step	O
uses	O
the	O
training	O
corpus	O
again	O
for	O
statistical	O
tuning	O
of	O
the	O
language	B-Language
model	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
MedSLT	B-General_Concept
translation	O
processes	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
rule-based	O
interlingua	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AFF	O
is	O
derived	O
from	O
the	O
Spoken	O
Language	O
Translator	O
,	O
the	O
precursor	O
of	O
MEdSLT	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
as	O
a	O
result	O
the	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
channel	O
model	O
becomes	O
underspecified	O
and	O
is	O
weakened	O
,	O
whereas	O
the	O
target	O
language	B-Language
model	I-Language
is	O
strengthened	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
response	O
to	O
demands	O
from	O
healthcare	O
professionals	O
,	O
a	O
mobile	O
version	O
of	O
MedSLT	B-General_Concept
was	O
developed	O
.	O
</s>
