Eurescom MUST project - Multimodal, multilingual information services for small mobile terminals

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2002

Authors

Rui Gomes (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2002)

Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2002)

Nancy, França, Junho de 2002

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Computer science > Computer systems > Human computer interaction

Other information

Abstract (EN): Mobile Internet Access is expected to grow very fast in the near future, fostered by speech access to the Internet through Voice Portals and fast mobile Internet in the UMTS networks. Typically, mobile terminals have small screens and keyboards, which makes them difficult to use in transaction and information services that require free text input or output of complex information that is only available in textual form. Implementation of speech and language technologies in a clever way will help to solve this problem. Speech recognition may be used to overcome part of the input problem, and language technologies like Information Extraction and (multilingual) Language Generation may be used to generate condensed representations that fit the small screen. In its most basic form speech input/output can be used as an overlay for keyboard input and screen output. Yet, it is generally agreed that clever combination of speech, text and graphics in the user interface will improve the usability of mobile information services. Substantial Human Factors research is still needed to understand how speech and language technology must be used in the servers and in the mobile terminals to be able to develop high quality multimodal interfaces. The Eurescom MUST project has been launched to meet several objectives : - To obtain a better understanding of the role that language and speech technology will play in future multimodal and multilingual services in the mobile networks accessed from small terminals and of the requirements that the technology must meet. - To get hands-on experience by integrating existing speech and language technologies into an experimental multimodal interface to a realistic demonstrator - To use the demonstrator to conduct human factor experiments with ‘real’ users to assess the value of the language and speech technologies for fast, simple and user-friendly interfaces on small mobile devices.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6