Speaking the users' languages

The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ in several ways, from the choice of words used to the complexity of the sentence forms. M-PIRO can currently generate text in three languages:...

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Published in:IEEE intelligent systems 2003-01, Vol.18 (1), p.40-45
Main Authors: Isard, A., Oberlander, J., Matheson, C., Androutsopoulos, I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Artificial intelligence
Automatic abstracting
Business
Cultural differences
Descriptions
Grammars
Graphics
Historic artifacts
Labeling
Linguistics
Marketing and sales
Mobile communication
Modular
Natural languages
Sentences
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
Texts
Usability
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Summary:The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ in several ways, from the choice of words used to the complexity of the sentence forms. M-PIRO can currently generate text in three languages: English, Greek, and Italian. The grammar resources are language independent as much as possible. M-PIRO's system architecture is significantly more modular than that of its predecessor ILEX. In particular, the linguistic resources, database, and user-modeling subsystems are now separate from the systems that perform the natural language generation and speech synthesis.
ISSN:1541-1672
1094-7167
1941-1294
DOI:10.1109/MIS.2003.1179192