LANGUE ET DIALOGUE : Human-machine dialogue with a significant language component (project-team)

About the project : Project-Team site Activity report Research reports Theses Theme : Sym Symbolic systems Nancy - Grand Est research center

Project-Team Presentation

LORIA joint project-team with CNRS, University Henri Poincaré, University Nancy 2 and INPL.

The introduction of natural language and more particularly of speech into a man-machine interface necessitates very robust systems for language understanding and interpretation which are well integrated into the application. The objective of the LANGUE ET DIALOGUEe project-team is to define and implement man-machine communication systems with robust and reliable language components.

Research themes

The scientific themes of the LANGUE ET DIALOGUE project-team center around models, techniques and resources for short, medium and long-term implementation of man-machine dialogue systems with a significant language component. In this context, our activities are expanding in three complementary directions:

• study of the fundamental mechanisms of communication in natural language, alone or accompanied with gestural designation (multimodal dialogue). This research is being undertaken in a cross-disciplinary context combining linguistics and computer science;
• implementation of effective dialogue systems, particularly in the context of industrial collaboration. This activity provides us with an experimental platform for validating the various models that we design;
• design of generic methods and tools for refined study of real dialogue situations obtained by transcription experiments and simulations, or by direct observation. This work is based on experience acquired over a number of years with normalisation and manipulation of linguistic resources (in particular "corpus" resources).

International and industrial relations

• Thomson-LCR : reference calculus
• EADS/Matra Systèmes d'Information : information retrieval in specialized documents
• Lucid-IT : multilingal texts and terminology
• Cinergie : industrial project (PRIAMM) in collaboration with CERIME/Université R. Schuman Strasbourg (Centre d'Etude et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Médias en Europe) and Lucid-IT (Nancy)
• HLT/Salt : european project (Université de Vienne, Consortium OLIF) on terminology and multilingal lexicon.
• IST/MIAMM : european project on man-machine dialog system integrating haptic device (with force feedback)
• Standardization actions : Martif (ISO 12620 : multilingal terminological data transfer), ISO 16642 (multilingal terminological data description)
• Bilateral agreements : NSF-CNRS (Vassar College, digital dictionnaries,...), AUF/France-Vietnam (Université de Hanoï, linguistic engineering), CommonRefs/France-Brésil (Université São Leopoldo, english, french and portuguese corpora), InDiGen/Université de Sarrebruck-Allemagne (common supervision of thesis), Universtité d'Amsterdam Pays-Bas (INRIA Associated Team, logic for knowledge representation and inference methods), Université de Taïwan (Framework for digital museum)

Scientific leader

Patrick BLACKBURN
+33 3 83 59 30 52
Patrick.Blackburn@loria.fr
Secretary : +33 3 83 59 20 26