In this paper we present a conversational dialogue system, CityBrowser II, which allows users to inquire about information about restaurants in Mandarin. Developed in the Galaxy infrastructure with a common, language-independent semantic representation, CityBrowser integrates portability and scalability. By inheriting the infrastructure and main language understanding/generation components from its English predecessor, CityBrowser can easily be transformed to a Mandarin language environment. This paper describes our system implementation, focusing on the languagespecific modifications to the original English system. We show that our language-independent yet scalable system infrastructure makes multilingualism a promising task. Index Terms— Mandarin dialogue systems, languageindependent infrastructure, portability
Cite as: Liu, J.-J., Xu, Y.-S., Seneff, S., Zue, V. (2008) Citybrowser II: A Multimodal Restaurant Guide in Mandarin. Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 153-156
@inproceedings{liu08b_iscslp,
author={Jing-Jing Liu and Yu-Shi Xu and Stephanie Seneff and Victor Zue},
title={{Citybrowser II: A Multimodal Restaurant Guide in Mandarin}},
year=2008,
booktitle={Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing},
pages={153--156}
}