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MULTIPLATFORM testbed: an integration platform for multimodal dialog systems

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Heinz Kirchmann,

Alassane Ndiaye,

Peter PollerAuthors Info & Claims

SEALTS '03: Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Software engineering and architecture of language technology systems - Volume 8

Pages 75 - 82

https://doi.org/10.3115/1119226.1119237

Published: 31 May 2003 Publication History

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Modern dialog and information systems are increasingly based on distributed component architectures to cope with all kinds of heterogeneity and to enable flexible re-use of existing software components. This contribution presents the MULTIPLATFORM testbed as a powerful framework for the development of integrated multimodal dialog systems. The paper provides a general overview of our approach and explicates its foundations. It describes advanced sample applications that have been realized using the integration platform and compares our approach to related works.

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