SYLAN, The Syrinx Spoken Language System

Dominique Estival
Natural Language Processing Group, Syrinx Speech Systems

Tuesday 5 October at 11am

Abstract

In this talk, I will present an overview of the Spoken Language Processing system being developed at Syrinx. I will first describe the general system architecture and show how SYLAN is integrated with SYCON, the Syrinx speech recognizer. Applications of Syrinx Speech Systems are in call centre automation and I will then give some examples from a particular application, the Olympics Information System, to be demonstrated during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Short resume

Dominique Estival is the Head of the NLP Group at Syrinx Speech Systems. Since receiving her PhD in linguistics from the U. of Pennsylvania, she has been working in Natural Language Processing, including machine translation, grammar development and linguistic engineering, with companies such WCC and Wang Laboratories in the USA and with the ISSCO research centre in Europe. She was a lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the University of Melbourne for three years before joining Syrinx earlier this year.

 

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