Petra Gieselmann

TL;DR: The systems for spontaneous speech recognition, multimodal dialogue processing, and visual perception of a user, which includes localization, tracking, and identification of the user, recognition of pointing gestures, as well as the recognition of a person's head orientation are presented.

TL;DR: The Ephyra question answering engine as mentioned in this paper is a modular and extensible framework that allows to integrate multiple approaches to question answering in one system and can be adapted to languages other than English by replacing language specific components.

TL;DR: The FAME multi-modal demonstrator is described, which integrates multiple communication modes - vision, speech and object manipulation - by combining the physical and virtual worlds to provide support for multi-cultural or multi-lingual communication and problem solving.

TL;DR: FAME as discussed by the authors is a multi-modal demonstrator, which integrates multiple communication modes by combining the physical and virtual worlds to provide support for multi-cultural or multi-lingual communication and problem solving.

TL;DR: To be able to cover all the entities a user might talk about, the dialogue manager was enhanced with an ability for dynamic vocabulary generation out of information found across the internet, so that it can understand several thousand recipes and ingredients now.