ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

HLT modules scalability within the NESPOLE! project

Hervé Blanchon

The spoken dialogue translation project NESPOLE! proposed two showcases in order to focus on two important issues: scalability-namely, the capability of a system to progressively handle larger portions of a given domain - and cross-domain portability. Those concerns were rather new when the project was proposed. ShowCase-1 dealt with limited tourism, while ShowCase-2 consisted of ShowCase-2a on extended tourism (thus focusing on scalability) and ShowCase-2b on a medical domain (thus focusing on cross-domain portability). In this article, we address the issue of scalability for the French analysis and generation modules in the tourism domain. We discuss ShC-1 and ShC-2a evaluations results and evaluate our progress.