Web on TV Workshop
The W3C sponsored a workshop on the Web on TV September 2-4 in Toyko. The workshop addressed use cases and requirements for smarter integration of Web technologies, broadcasting and non-PC devices. Deborah Dahl participated as a member of the Workshop Organizing Committee.
SpeechTEK New York 2010
This year's SpeechTEK Conference in New York (August 2-4) included two presentations by Deborah Dahl. On Tuesday she gave a presentation on "Multimodal Systems for Seniors". She also participated in the targeted training session, "Multimodal Applications Using EMMA" on Wednesday at 1:45 with Michael Johnston (AT&T) and Ingmar Kliche (Deutsche Telekom). The demos from this session are available online. She also moderated a lab on "Natural Language Understanding" on Monday at 1:15.
Mobile Voice 2010 Presentations
This year's Mobile Voice Conference in San Francisco included two presentations by Deborah Dahl, "Designing Applications for Senior Users" and "Distributed Multimodality in the MMI Architecture".
SpeechTEK 2009 Presentations
This year's SpeechTEK Conference and Exhibit was held in New York, August 24-26 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Presentations by Deborah Dahl included an interactive session on "Design of Speech and Multimodal Applications for Senior Users", a presentation on "Improving Dialogs with EMMA", and a SpeechTEK University tutorial on Natural Language Processing.
EMMA
February 10, 2009
The W3C has published EMMA as a Recommendation. EMMA is a standard format for representing inputs from users using speech, text, pointing and a wide variety of other modalities. It will be very useful in promoting interoperability among components that accept user input such as speech recognizers. The publication of EMMA was covered in the March 1 issue of Software Development Times. See the announcement for more information.
Voice Search Conference
Deborah Dahl gave a presentation at the 2009 Voice Search conference in San Diego, March 1-4 on "Frontiers in Interaction: The Power of Multimodal Standards".
Multimodal Authoring
Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture
The World Wide Web Consortium has published the first Public Working Draft of a note on authoring applications for the Multimodal Architecture, prepared by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. This note provides an example of a simple multimodal application based on the Working Group's Multimodal Architecture specification and which uses current web standards, including HTML, VoiceXML and CCXML.
SpeechTEK
SpeechTEK 2008
Deborah Dahl gave a presentation on W3C standards-based multimodal demos. She also gave a tutorial on natural language processing as part of SpeechTEK University. This tutorial is a great introduction to the rapidly expanding technology of natural language processing. The tutorial is available on-line. The open source Natural Language Workbench that was used in this year's tutorial is also available on SourceForge.
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