Language Technologies Capability Demonstration

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Language TechnologiesCapability Demonstration

• Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Alex Waibel
• Language Technologies Institute
• Carnegie Mellon University
• CATANAL Planning Meeting
• Barrow, Alaska
• March 8-9, 2001

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Language Technologies Capability Demonstration

• Goal demonstrate
• where Language Technologies are used today in
  common user applications
• How well these technologies currently perform
• Some are publicly available over the internet,
  others prototype research demos
• Also show some of our own work

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Applications of Language Technologies

• Phone interfaces to commercial applications using
  natural human language
• Information search and retrieval of documents on
  the internet using natural human language
• Machine Translation of text and web pages
• Speech-to-Speech Translation
• Grammar and style checking in editors and word
  processors

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ATTs How may I help you

• Voice enabled customer assistance router for
  questions/problems with ATT phone services

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CMU Communicator Line

• Voice enabled information access to travel
  information
• 1-877-CMU-PLAN

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CMU Movie Line

• Voice enabled information access to movie
  listings in the Pittsburgh area

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MIT Jupiter

• Voice enabled information access to weather
  information anywhere in the world
• 1-888-573-8255

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Speechworks Phone Demo

• Demonstration of voice enabled access to
  information using natural human language in
  commercial applications (banking, etc.)
• 1-888-say-demo

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Ask Jeeves

• Natural Language interface to information
  retrieval on the internet
• http//www.askjeeves.com/

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Answerlogic

• Natural Language interface to information
  retrieval on commercial websites
• They sell their software for other companies to
  use as an interface to company information
• http//www.answerlogic.com/

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Babelfish

• Text translation service offered over the
  internet via the Altavista web search engine
• Handles only a handful of major languages
• http//www.altavista.com/r?F09

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Grammar Checking in Word

• Checks for grammar and style mistakes in typed
  documents that are edited using Microsoft Word
• word-demo.doc

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JANUS Speech Recognition Demo

• Large vocabulary, speaker independent, continuous
  speech recognition system developed at the
  Interactive Systems Lab at Carnegie Mellon and
  the University of Karlsruhe
• Used for Dictation, Speech interfaces to
  navigation, Speech Translation

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JANUS MT Demo

• Speech-to-Speech Translation system in limited
  domains
• Demonstration of the text-to-text translation
  component of the system
• Travel Domain