Building multilingual spoken dialogue systems

• Autorzy: Holzapfel H.
• Konferencja: Human Language Technologies as a challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (2; 21-23.04.2005; Poznań, Poland)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Developing multilingual dialogue systems brings up various challenges. In addition to monolingualdialogue systems, multiple language resources are developed that need to be compatible. for development of new laguage resources existing knowledge can be used to improve the development process to obtain higher quality and results as rapid as possible. Another challenge is to ensure compatibility between the different language specific components during maintenance and ongoing dvelopment of the system. In this paper we describe how to build a multilingual system, and the relation to existing work. we describe our experiences with designing multilingual dialogue systems and present methods for multilingual grammar specification, as well as development and maintenance methods for multilingual grammars, and multilingual generation templates. We introduce grammar interfaces, similar to interface concepts known from object oriented languages, to improve compatibility between diffrent grammar parts and to simplify grammar development.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

multilingual spoken dialogue design; spoken dialogue management; grammar

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Automatic Control and Robotics
• Czasopismo: Archives of Control Sciences
• Rocznik: 2005
• Tom: Vol. 15, no. 4
• Strony: 555--566
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 24 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Holzapfel H.

• Interactive Systems Laboratories, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany,

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