MUXING: a telephone-access Mandarin conversational system

Wang, Chao; Cyphers, D. Scott; Mou, Xiaolong; Polifroni, Joseph; Seneff, Stephanie; Yi, Jon Rong-Wei; Zue, Victor W.

doi:10.21437/icslp.2000-369

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Thus, we developed phone-based systems configured to support speech understanding in both English and Chinese. Dialogue interaction involved asking questions about the weather [34,27] or planning an air travel itinerary [25,30]. The student was required to communicate with the system in Chinese, but could speak an English sentence at any time, in which case the system would speak a sentence of equivalent meaning in Chinese.…”

Section: Telephone-based Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web-based dialogue and translation games for spoken language learning

Seneff

2007

Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007)

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It is widely recognized that one of the best ways to learn a foreign language is through spoken dialogue with a native speaker. However, this is not a practical method in the classroom due to the one-to-one student/teacher ratio it implies. A potential solution to this problem is to rely on computer spoken dialogue systems to role play a conversational partner. This paper describes several multilingual dialogue systems specifically designed to address this need. Students can engage in dialogue with the computer either over the telephone or through audio/typed input at a Web page. Several different domains are being developed, in which a student's conversational interaction is assisted by a software agent functioning as a "tutor" which can provide them with translation assistance at any time. Some of the research issues surrounding high-quality spoken language translation and dialogue modeling for language games are discussed.

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Section: Telephone-based Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web-based dialogue and translation games for spoken language learning

Seneff

2007

Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007)

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“…SPEECHBUILDER by convention has so far only addressed domains dealing with speech in American English. However, domains in other languages have been implemented using the GALAXY framework [35,25], and thus it is desirable to allow SPEECHBUILDER developers to build domains in languages other than English (of course a basic requirement is that a speech recognizer for the language be available).…”

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Speechbuilder: facilitating spoken dialogue system development

Glass¹,

Weinstein²

2001

7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)

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SPEECHBUILDER is a suite of tools that helps facilitate the creation of mixed-initiative spoken dialogue systems for both novice and experienced developers of human language applications. SPEECHBUILDER employs intuitive methods of specification to allow developers to create human language interfaces to structured information stored in a relational database, or to control-and transaction-based applications. The goal of this project has been both to robustly accommodate the various scenarios where spoken dialogue systems may be needed, and to provide a stable and reliable infrastructure for design and deployment of applications. SpeechBuilder has been used in various spoken language domains, including a directory of the people working at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, an application to control the various physical items in a typical office environment, and a system for real-time weather information access.

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“…For nearly two decades, our group has been conducting research leading to the development of multilingual spoken dialogue systems that combine multiple human language technologies (HLTs) to enable humans and machines to carry on a mixed-initiative conversation for interactive problem solving and information access [1,2]. To ensure that these systems can easily be generalized to languages other than English, we have made two design choices.…”

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Citybrowser II: A Multimodal Restaurant Guide in Mandarin

Liu,

Xu,

Seneff

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Int. Symp. On Chinese Spoken Language Processing

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In this paper we present a conversational dialogue system, CityBrowser II, which allows users to inquire about information about restaurants in Mandarin. Developed in the Galaxy infrastructure with a common, language-independent semantic representation, CityBrowser integrates portability and scalability. By inheriting the infrastructure and main language understanding/generation components from its English predecessor, CityBrowser can easily be transformed to a Mandarin language environment. This paper describes our system implementation, focusing on the languagespecific modifications to the original English system. We show that our language-independent yet scalable system infrastructure makes multilingualism a promising task.

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MUXING: a telephone-access Mandarin conversational system

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Web-based dialogue and translation games for spoken language learning

Web-based dialogue and translation games for spoken language learning

Speechbuilder: facilitating spoken dialogue system development

Citybrowser II: A Multimodal Restaurant Guide in Mandarin

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