A Natural Language Interface to a Theater Information Database

The development of a natural language dialogue system as an interface to a theater information database is a joint research project of the University of Tartu (Estonia) and the Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). The underlying database contains information about theater performances in a certain theater or city. The dialogue system can be used to ask information about performances using either spoken or typewritten natural language in Estonian. The dialogue management module was developed at the University of Tartu while the modules for speech recognition and speech synthesis were added by the Tallinn University of Technology. This article discusses the development of the dialogue module, the speech recognition module, and the speech synthesis module. Sistem za dialog v naravnem jeziku kot vmesnik do gledališke podatkovne baze Razvoj sistema za dialog v naravnem jeziku kot vmesnik do gledališke podatkovne baze je skupni raziskovalni projekt Univerze v Tartuju (Estonija) in Tehniške univerze v Talinu (Estonija). Podatkovna baza vsebuje informacije o predstavah v določenem gledališču ali mestu. Sistem za dialog je mogoče uporabiti za pridobivanje informacij o predstavah bodisi v govorjeni ali pisni estonščini. Modul za vodenje dialoga je bil razvit na Univerzi v Tartuju, medtem ko so module za razpoznavanje in sintezo govora dodali na Tehniški univerzi v Talinu. Prispevek obravnava razvoj modulov za dialog, razpoznavanje govora in sintezo govora.