YINHE: a Mandarin Chinese version of the GALAXY system
Chao Wang, James Glass, Helen M. L. Meng, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Victor W. Zue · 1997
The galaxy system is a human-computer conversational system providing a spoken language interface for accessing on-line information. It was initially implemented for English in travel-related domains, including air travel, local city navigation, and weather. We began an effort to develop multilingual systems within the framework of galaxy several years ago. This paper describes our recent work on porting the system to Mandarin Chinese, including speech recognition, language understanding, and language generation components. Overall, the system produced reasonable responses nearly 70% of the time for spontaneous test data collected in a wizard environment. 1. INTRODUCTION The galaxy system is a client/server architecture for computer conversational systems [1]. In designing galaxy, we drew heavily on experience gained in the development of galaxy's predecessor, voyager [2]. Voyager was not initially designed to easily support multiple languages, but through a trial-and-error process...