<s>
Verbmobil	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
long-term	O
interdisciplinary	O
Language	B-Application
Technology	I-Application
(	O
esp	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Machine	B-Application
Translation	I-Application
)	O
research	O
project	O
with	O
the	O
aim	O
of	O
developing	O
a	O
system	O
that	O
could	O
recognize	O
,	O
translate	O
and	O
produce	O
natural	O
utterances	O
and	O
thus	O
"	O
translate	O
spontaneous	O
speech	O
robustly	O
and	O
bidirectionally	O
for	O
German/English	O
and	O
German/Japanese	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Verbmobil	B-General_Concept
research	O
was	O
carried	O
out	O
between	O
1993	O
and	O
2000	O
and	O
received	O
a	O
total	O
of	O
116	O
million	O
German	O
marks	O
(	O
roughly	O
60	O
million	O
euros	O
)	O
in	O
funding	O
from	O
Germany	O
's	O
Federal	O
Ministry	O
of	O
Research	O
and	O
Technology	O
,	O
the	O
;	O
industry	O
partners	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
DaimlerChrysler	O
,	O
Siemens	O
and	O
Philips	O
)	O
contributed	O
an	O
additional	O
52	O
million	O
DM	O
(	O
26	O
million	O
euros	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
Verbmobil	B-General_Concept
II	O
project	O
,	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Tübingen	O
created	O
semi-automatically	O
annotated	O
treebanks	O
for	O
German	O
,	O
Japanese	O
and	O
English	O
spontaneous	O
speech	O
.	O
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