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  <Title>English-to-Mandarin Speech Translation with Head Transducers</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Head transducers offer efficiency and robustness advantages to the speech translation application; there is empirical evidence supporting this claim at least in the case of comparison with a transfer approach. We have also argued that allowing multiple target positions for transitions increases the flexibility of transducers without an adverse effect on efficiency. The focus of our current research is to take advantage of the relative simplicity of head transducer models in working towards fully automatic model acquisition.</Paragraph>
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