Ivan Bretan

TL;DR: WEST, a WEb browser for Small Terminals, is described, that aims to solve some of the problems associated with accessing web pages on hand-held devices through a novel combination of text reduction and focus+context visualization.

TL;DR: The architecture of the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), a prototype speech translation system which can translate queries from spoken English to spoken Swedish in the domain of air travel information systems, is described.

TL;DR: The methodology for determining which genres to include is given, which is a double edged problem, involving both vaguely expressed user expectations and establishing categories using large numbers of features which taken singly have low predictive and explanatory power.

TL;DR: This paper describes a speech to speech translation system using standard components and a suite of generalizable customization techniques, and presents initial performance results.

TL;DR: This paper describes how collection specific empirically defined stylistics based genre prediction can be brought together together with rapid topical clustering to build an interactive information retrieval interface with multi-dimensional presentation of search results.