Demos

City Browser: A Web-Based Multimodal Interface to Urban Information
Alex Gruenstein et al., MIT
City Browser is a web-based multimodal interface to urban information which can run on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers as well as several mobile devices.  We will demonstrate the system running on a Nokia N810 internet tablet.  City Browser allows the use of spoken natural language input, drawing, and clicking in the context of a rich map-based graphical user interface.  Users can obtain information about restaurants, hotels, museums, and landmarks in several major metropolitan areas.  They can also locate addresses on the map, obtain driving directions, and find public transportation information.

Multimodal Voice Search for Interactive Media
Michael Johnston, AT & T
With the rapidly increasing range of media content available to consumers both in the home and while mobile, from IP television and video-on-demand to music, photos, and news, there is an increasing need for more natural interfaces enabling quick and easy media access and exploration. We will illustrate the how technologies such as speech recognition, natural language processing, and multimodality come together to address this challenge.

Search Vox: A Voice Search Interface for Multimodal Refinement and Partial Knowledge
Tim Paek, Bo Thiesson, Y.C. Ju, & Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research
Search Vox is a multimodal interface for voice search that tightly couples speech with touch and text in two directions: users can not only use touch and text to refine their queries whenever speech fails, but they can also use speech whenever text entry becomes burdensome.  Search Vox also allows users to take advantage of any partial knowledge they may have about their search queries.

English/Arabic Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems on Different Small Platforms
Kriste Krstovski, David Stallard, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
English-speaking field personnel in foreign countries often need to communicate with residents of the host country who do not speak English. Portable devices for speech-to-speech (S2S) language translation would therefore be very useful in such environments.  In this session we will demo several different versions of BBN's TransTalk Iraqi-to-English S2S translation system running on several different small platforms. Platforms include handheld computer, headset-wearable computer, and COTS laptop.

Title TBA, Susan Boyce and Lisa Stifelman, Tellme

Title TBA, Mike Phillips, Vlingo

Posters

Mobile Medical Information Access by means of Multidocument Summarization based on Similarities and Differences
Jose Carlos Cortizo et al.

Keyword Extraction based Dialogue for Voice User Interface on Mobile Phones
Ke-Song Han and Gui-Lin Chen

PALS: Personalized Access to Language Services A novel application of Example Based Machine Translation
Praveen Reddy et al.

Understanding Ambiguous Language in Context-Aware Mobile Querying
Joel Booth et al.


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