Overview of the ARISE project

The LE-3 project ARISE (Automatic Railway Information Systems for Europe) ran from October 1996 through December 1998. Four prototypes of train timetable information systems for three different languages were developed, tested, and validated: Italian (based on technology developed by CSELT), French (two systems, one based on Philips technology, the other on technology by LIMSI), and Dutch (based on Philips technology). The goal of ARISE was to improve the basic technology and to enhance our general understanding of the issues involved in actual deployment of spoken language dialogue systems for restricted domain information. This paper summarises the main findings of the project in terms of speech recognition, dialogue state dependent language modelling, dialogue control, information presentation, system output, evaluation of spoken dialogue systems, and operational issues.

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