A MULTILINGUAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING THE WEB

Marta Gatius, Meritxell González, Elisabet Comelles

2007

Abstract

In this paper we propose the use of multilingual multichannel dialogue systems to improve the usability of web contents. In order to improve both the communication and the portability of those dialogue systems we propose the separation of the general components from the application-specific, language-specific and channel-specific aspects. This paper describes the multilingual dialogue system for accessing web contents we develop following this proposal. It is particularly focused two main components of the system: the dialogue manager and the natural language generator.

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Gatius M., González M. and Comelles E. (2007). A MULTILINGUAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING THE WEB . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8, pages 184-189. DOI: 10.5220/0001272001840189


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@conference{webist07,
author={Marta Gatius and Meritxell González and Elisabet Comelles},
title={A MULTILINGUAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING THE WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={184-189},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001272001840189},
isbn={978-972-8865-78-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - A MULTILINGUAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING THE WEB
SN - 978-972-8865-78-8
AU - Gatius M.
AU - González M.
AU - Comelles E.
PY - 2007
SP - 184
EP - 189
DO - 10.5220/0001272001840189