| Muxing: A Telephone-Access Mandarin Conversational System (2000) | |||||||||||||||||
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| MUXING is a telephone-based conversational system that allows users to access weather information in Mandarin Chinese over the telephone. Although MUXING utilizes the same architecture as well as most of the same human language technology components as its English predecessor, JUPITER, some modifications to the system were necessary to account for differences between English and Mandarin Chinese. In addition, the weather database needed to be modified to reflect regions of greater interest to potential Chinese users. This paper describes our system development effort, paying particular attention to Mandarinspecific changes to the original JUPITER system. 1. INTRODUCTION For the past decade, our group has been conducting research leading to the development of conversational systems that enable users to access and manage information using spoken dialogue. In this context, multilinguality has always been an important research topic. Our approach to developing multilingual conversational... | |||||||||||||||||
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