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  <Title>Towards Multilingual Protocol Generation For Spontaneous Speech Dialogues*</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> VERBMOBIL is a research project aiming at a Speech-To-Speech translation system for Face-to-Face dialogues \[Bub and Schwinn 1996, Bub, Wahlster, and Waibel 1997, Wahlster 1993\]. In its first phase (1993 - 1996), a bilingual (English-German) system for time scheduling negotiation dialogues was developed. For its current second phase (1997 -2000), a third language, Japanese, has been incorporated. Additionally, more than two people should be able to participate in the dialogue, a setting we call multi-party. For the second phase, a novel system feature is currently under development - protocol generation. The idea is to provide the user(s ) with three kinds of protocols: Progress Protocol The most salient parts of the dialogue are summarized.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Result Protocol The result of the negotiation is summarized.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Status Protocol The current status of the negotiation is summarized.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The first two are generated after the dialogue is finished. For the result protocol, a summarization of the goal reached in the negotiation is generated. The progress protocol serves as a simplified recapitulation of the progress of the dialogue, whereas the status protocol will, on demand, be generated during the ongoing dialogue. Its task is to deliver a brief description of the current status of the dialogue. All protocols must be generated in all three languages, putting extra requests on the protocol generation component; particularly, being as language independent as possible. In this paper we focus on the first of the protocol types listed above - the progress protocol.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> &amp;quot;The research within VBRBMOBIL presented here is funded by the German Ministry of Research and Technology under grant 01IV101K/1. The authors would like to thank Amy Demeisi, Michael Kipp, Norbert Reithinger and the anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts on this paper.</Paragraph>
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