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Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2002)

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The paper describes developments and results of the work being carried out during the European research project CATCH-2004 (Converse in AThens Cologne and Helsinki)3. The objective of the project is multi-modal, multi-lingual conversational access to information systems. This paper concentrates on issues of the multilingual telephony-based speech and natural language understanding components.

The project is co-funded by the European Union in the scope of the IST programme (IST 1999- 11103). The paper represents the view of the authors.

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  1. IBM European Voice Technology Development, Vangerowstr. 18, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany

    Marion Mast, Thomas Roß & Henrik Schulz

  2. Nokia Group, NOKIA Research Center, Itämerenkatu 11–13, FIN-00045, Finland

    Heli Harrikari

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Mast, M., Roß, T., Schulz, H., Harrikari, H. (2002). Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_58

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