Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits – The M-PIRO Project

Ion Androutsopoulos; Vassiliki Kokkinaki; Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki; Jo Calder; Jon Oberlander; Elena Not

Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits – The M-PIRO Project

Ion Androutsopoulos, Vassiliki Kokkinaki, Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki, Jo Calder, Jon Oberlander, Elena Not

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Abstract

This paper provides an overall presentation of the M-PIRO project. M-PIRO is developing technology that will allow museums to generate automatically textual or spoken descriptions of exhibits for collections available over the Web or in virtual reality environments. The descriptions are generated in several languages from information in a language-independent database and small fragments of text, and they can be tailored according to the backgrounds of the users, their ages, and their previous interaction with the system. An authoring tool allows museum curators to update the system’s database and to control the language and content of the resulting descriptions. Although the project is still in progress, a Web-based demonstrator that supports English, Greek and Italian is already available, and it is used throughout the paper to highlight the capabilities of the emerging technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Editors	Göran Burenhult
Publisher	Archaeopress
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	1841712981
Publication status	Published - 2001
Event	29th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology - Gotland, Sweden Duration: 25 Apr 2001 → 29 Apr 2001

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Name	BAR International
Publisher	Archaeopress, Oxford
Number	1016

Conference

Conference	29th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gotland
Period	25/04/01 → 29/04/01

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Androutsopoulos, I., Kokkinaki, V., Dimitromanolaki, A., Calder, J., Oberlander, J., & Not, E. (2001). Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits – The M-PIRO Project. In G. Burenhult (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (BAR International; No. 1016). Archaeopress.

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Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits – The M-PIRO Project. / Androutsopoulos, Ion; Kokkinaki, Vassiliki; Dimitromanolaki, Aggeliki et al.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. ed. / Göran Burenhult. Archaeopress, 2001. (BAR International; No. 1016).

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