Objective The LUNA project proposal addresses the problem of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in telephone applications.In today's commercial applications based on speech recognition, the quality of the human-to-computer interaction is still far from being enjoyable and effective. To improve the usefulness and acceptability of automatic dialogue systems, a solution is to raise the level of intelligence of automatic systems up to Spoken Language Understanding (SLU).From a technological point of view, the objectives of LUNA are to propose new methods, algorithms and tools for the fast development of robust SLU components for multilingual telephone services. To this aim, LUNA will address a set of challenging scientific problems, by focusing on five scientific objectives:- Language Modelling for Speech Understanding;- Semantic Modelling for Speech Understanding;- Automatic Learning (including Active and On-Line Learning);- Robustness issues for SLU;- Multilingual portability of SLU components.In particular, three steps will be considered for SLU interpretation process: generation of semantic concept tags, semantic composition and context-sensitive validation. LUNA's research results will be validated on different application scenarios, targeted to dialogue-based telephone services of different complexity (e.g. from call routing with utterance classification to dialogue systems with complex semantic domains). A toolkit for multilingual dialogue services will also be developed and used to create and field test sample applications in four languages (French, German, Italian and Polish).The highly qualified academic presence in the consortium ensures scientific excellence and credibility in carrying out this leading-edge research activity, while the project results will immediately become a competitive advantage for industrial partners who will be able to exploit them directly, introducing them to the speech technologies market. Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.5.7 - Multimodal interfaces Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator LOQUENDO SPA Address Via arrigo olivetti 6 10100 Torino Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CONSORZIO PER IL SISTEMA INFORMATIVO (CSI PIEMONTE) Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Corso unione sovietica 216 Torino See on map Links Website Opens in new window FRANCE TELECOM SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Place d alleray 6 75015 Paris See on map Links Website Opens in new window INSTYTUT PODSTAW INFORMATYKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (IPI PAN) Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ul. ordona 21 01-237 Warszawa See on map POLSKO-JAPONSKA WYZSZA SZKOLA TECHNIK KOMPUTEROWYCH Z SIEDZIBA W WARSZAWIE Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ulica koszykowa 86 02008 Warszawa See on map RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON ET DES PAYS DE VAUCLUSE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue louis pasteur 74 Avignon See on map
