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

CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska 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

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska 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

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska AT&T’s How may I help you Voice enabled customer assistance router for questions/problems with AT&T phone services

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska CMU Communicator Line Voice enabled information access to travel information CMU-PLAN

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska CMU Movie Line Voice enabled information access to movie listings in the Pittsburgh area

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska MIT Jupiter Voice enabled information access to weather information anywhere in the world

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska Speechworks Phone Demo Demonstration of voice enabled access to information using natural human language in commercial applications (banking, etc.) say-demo

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska Ask Jeeves Natural Language interface to information retrieval on the internet

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska 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

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska Babelfish Text translation service offered over the internet via the Altavista web search engine Handles only a handful of major languages

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska Grammar Checking in Word Checks for grammar and style mistakes in typed documents that are edited using Microsoft Word word-demo.doc

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska 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

March 8-9, 2001CATANAL Meeting, Barrow Alaska JANUS MT Demo Speech-to-Speech Translation system in limited domains Demonstration of the text-to-text translation component of the system Travel Domain