CU FOREX: a bilingual spoken dialog system for foreign exchange enquiries

Author

Meng, Helen M. ; Lee, Steven ; Wai, Carmen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Eng. Manage., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

This paper reports on the design, development and evaluation of a bilingual telephone-based spoken language system for foreign exchange inquiries-the CU FOREX system. The telephone-based system supports Cantonese and English in a single spoken language interface to access real-time foreign exchange information. The specific domain covers information on the exchange rates between foreign currencies, as well as deposit interest rates of various time durations for a specified currency. Overall our system achieves a performance of 0.95 (kappa-statistic), with a typical transaction duration of 2 minutes on average

Keywords

interactive systems; natural language interfaces; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; stock markets; telephony; CU FOREX; Cantonese; English; bilingual spoken dialog system; bilingual telephone-based spoken language system; deposit interest rates; exchange rates; foreign currencies; foreign exchange enquiries; performance; real-time foreign exchange information; spoken language interface; Design engineering; Economic indicators; Exchange rates; Feeds; Natural languages; Relational databases; Research and development management; Satellites; Speech synthesis; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. ICASSP '00. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6293-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2000.859188

Filename

859188