Tuesday, June 17, 2003

NCSA Seminar Series
Voice Interface for elVIAS
Allison Clark, NCSA
Juan Gilbert, George Isbell, Georgia Tech
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. CDT
5239 Beckman Institute

This presentation will discussVoice elVIAS, which is research that concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a voice user interface to access elVIAS (http://elvias.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). The elVIAS search engine is an information retrieval, archival, and processing system for the ELearning domain. Voice elVIAS integrates automatic speech recognition (ASR) and information retrieval (IR) to provide hands-free, eyes-free access to data. This presentation will give an overview Voice elVIAS and provide a demonstration of the system. Additionally, the presentation will discuss future directions for using voice in information retrieval.

The NCSA Seminar Series is a set of presentations on high performance computing and related research. Typically, the seminars are presented on Tuesday afternoons and are available onsite at the presenting institution and remotely via the Access Grid. The venue for the NCSA Seminar Series in Full Sail. For more details regarding the venue, please refer to: http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=862 . All Access Grid sites are welcome to participate in this series.