Towards Ontology-based Multi-lingual Spoken Dialogue System
Chao-Huang Chang · International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages · 2001
This article presents the design of a new architecture for ontology-based multi-lingual spoken dialogue systems. In the center of the architecture is the domain ontology. Around the ontology are four processing modules: human interface module, intelligence core module, content interface module, and the fusion module.In this article, we will first review an earlier work on Chinese-English machine translation, the Mini-Transfer approach and a corresponding system called ALICE. Then, the previously ignored ontology used in the ALICE system is described in detail, and its importance in the lexically interlingual, syntactically transfer Mini-Transfer approach are reconfirmed. After that, we propose the new ontology-based architecture for multi-lingual (cross-lingual) spoken dialogue systems. Then, we will point out some research issues and future directions towards ontology-based multi-lingual (cross-lingual) spoken dialogue systems, especially for Chinese and oriental languages.