ITRI-03-13 CROCODIAL: Crosslingual Computer-mediated Dialogue

CROCODIAL: Crosslingual Computer-mediated Dialogue

We describe a novel approach to crosslingual dialogue which allows for highly accurate communication of semantically complex content. The approach is introduced through an application in a B2B scenario. We are currently building a browser-based prototype for this scenario. The core technology underlying the approach is natural language generation. We also discuss how the proposed approach can c...

The Effect of CMC in Business Emails in Lingua Franca: Discourse Features and Misunderstandings

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication

We describe a novel approach to crosslingual dialogue that supports highly accurate communication of semantically complex content between people who do not speak the same language. The approach is introduced through an implemented application that covers the same ground as the chapter of a conventional phrase book for food shopping. We position the approach with respect to dialogue systems and ...

ITRI-03-06 Identifying Genres on the Web

ITRI-02-11 Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies