TY - GEN
T1 - Development and evaluation of AnHitz, a prototype of a Basque-speaking virtual 3D expert on science and technology
AU - Leturia, Igor
AU - Del Pozo, Arantza
AU - Arrieta, Kutz
AU - Iturraspe, Urtza
AU - Sarasola, Kepa
AU - De Ilarraza, Arantza Diaz
AU - Navas, Eva
AU - Odriozola, Igor
PY - 2009/12/9
Y1 - 2009/12/9
N2 - The aim of the AnHitz project, whose participants are research groups with very different backgrounds, is to carry out research on language, speech and visual technologies for Basque. Several resources, tools and applications have been developed in AnHitz, but we have also integrated many of these into a prototype of a 3D virtual expert on science and technology. It includes Question Answering and Cross Lingual Information Retrieval systems in those areas. The interaction with the system is carried out in Basque (the results of the CLIR module that are not in Basque are translated through Machine Translation) and is speech-based (using Speech Synthesis and Automatic Speech Recognition). The prototype has received ample media coverage and has been greatly welcomed by Basque society. The system has been evaluated by 50 users who have completed a total of 300 tests, showing good performance and acceptance.
AB - The aim of the AnHitz project, whose participants are research groups with very different backgrounds, is to carry out research on language, speech and visual technologies for Basque. Several resources, tools and applications have been developed in AnHitz, but we have also integrated many of these into a prototype of a 3D virtual expert on science and technology. It includes Question Answering and Cross Lingual Information Retrieval systems in those areas. The interaction with the system is carried out in Basque (the results of the CLIR module that are not in Basque are translated through Machine Translation) and is speech-based (using Speech Synthesis and Automatic Speech Recognition). The prototype has received ample media coverage and has been greatly welcomed by Basque society. The system has been evaluated by 50 users who have completed a total of 300 tests, showing good performance and acceptance.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649750819&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352720
DO - 10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352720
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649750819
SN - 9781424453146
T3 - Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, IMCSIT '09
SP - 235
EP - 242
BT - Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, IMCSIT '09
T2 - International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, IMCSIT '09
Y2 - 12 October 2009 through 14 October 2009
ER -