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project status

• Refinement of initial system specification and detailed specification of system modules
• Completion and validation of system architecture framework
• “Proof of concept” of the realized implementation
• Development of system modules according to the defined specifications
• Collection of data for training of system modules
• Completion of the system architecture prototype
• Integration of first version system modules completed
• First functionality and overall test of the VICO prototype system
• Improvement of system modules concerning performance and robustness
• Presentation of project and publications at several scientific conferences
• Re-Design of VICO webpage
public deliverables

P. Geutner. Project Presentation in PDF format. VICO deliverable D2. April 2001.

P. Geutner et al. Dissemination and Use Plan. VICO deliverable D5, July 2001.

publications

2001
D. Manstetten, W. Krautter, B. Grothkopp, F. Steffens and P. Geutner. Using A Driving Simulator To Perform A Wizard-of-Oz Experiment On Speech-Controlled Driver Information Systems. Proceedings of the Human Centered Transportation Simulation Conference (HCTSC 2001), Iowa City, USA, November 4 – 7, 2001.

M. Matassoni, G.A. Mian, M. Omologo, A. Santarelli and P. Svaizer. Some Experiments on the Use of One-Channel Noise Reduction Techniques with the Italian SpeechDat Car Database. Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2001), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 9 – 13, 2001.

N.O. Bernsen and L. Dybkjær. Exploring Natural Interaction in the Car. Proceedings of the CLASS Workshop on Natural Interactivity and Intelligent Interactive Information Representation, Verona, Italy, December 2001.

2002
M. Mattasoni, M. Omologo, A. Santarelli and P. Svaizer. On the Joint Use of Noise Reduction and MLLR Adaptation for In-Car Hands-Free Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002), Orlando, USA, May 2002.

P. Geutner , F. Steffens and D. Manstetten. Design of the VICO Spoken Dialogue System: Evaluation of User Expectations by Wizard-of-Oz Experiments, Proceeding of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002.

J.-Y. Antoine, C. Bousquet-Vernhettes, J. Goulian, M.-Z. Kurdi, S. Rosset, N. Vigouroux, J. Villaneau. Predictive and objective evaluation of speech understanding: the “challenge”. Evaluation campaign of the I3 speech workgroup of the French CNRS, Proceeding so the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002.

M.-Z. Kurdi. Combinig pattern matching and shallow parsing techniques for detecting and correcting spoken language extragrammaticalities. 2nd Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data ROMAND 2002, Frascati- Rome, Italy, July 2002.

M.-Z. Kurdi and M. Ahafhaf. Toward an objective and generic Method for Spoken Language Understanding Systems Evaluation: an extension of the DCR method . Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002.

M. Charfuelán, L. H.ernández Gómez, C. Esteban López, H. Hemsen. A XML-based tool for evaluation of SLDS. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002.

N.O. Bernsen and L. Dybkjær. A Multimodal Virtual Co-driver’s Problems with the Driver. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 17-19, 2002.

H. Hüning, A. Berton, U. Haiber and F. Class. Speech Recognition Methods and their Potential for Dialogue Systems in Mobile Environments. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2002.

2003
L. Cristoforetti, M. Matassoni, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer. Use of Parallel Recognizers for Robust In-car Speech Interaction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003), Hong Kong, April 2003.

L. Cristoforetti, M. Matassoni, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer. In-car Speech Interaction by means of Multiple Recognition Units. Proceedings of Workshop on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems, Nagoya, Japan, April 3-4, 2003.

P. Coletti, L. Cristoforetti, M. Matassoni, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer. Developing a Speech Interaction System for the Car. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Agility & Hybrid Automation, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2003.

P. Coletti, L. Cristoforetti, M. Matassoni, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer, P. Geutner, F. Steffens. A Speech Driven In-car Assistance System. Proceedings of IEEE IV2003 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Columbus (Ohio), USA, June 9-11, 2003.