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While travelling a foreign country by car, drivers would like to retrieve instant local information. However, accessing local web sites while driving causes two problems: First, browsing the Web while driving puts the drivers safety at risk. Second, the information may only be available in the respective foreign language. We present a multilingual speech dialog system which enables the user to extract topic related information from web resources in different languages. The system extracts and understands information from web sites in various languages by parsing HTML code against a predefined semantic net where special topics are modelled. After extraction the content is available in a meta language representation which makes a speech interaction in different languages possible. For miminized driver distraction an intuitive and driver-convenient generic speech dialog has been designed.
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Hofmann, H., Eberhardt, A., Ehrlich, U. (2011). Accessing Web Resources in Different Languages Using a Multilingual Speech Dialog System. In: Delgado, RC., Kobayashi, T. (eds) Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1335-6_3
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