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The present paper concerns the handling of verbs in the Speech Recognition Module of an HCI system for the remote control of household security and the operation of household appliances. The basic language used is Modern Greek, but the system’s design includes the basis of a multilingual extension for the use of the system by native-speakers of other languages.The human- computer communication must preferable to be accomplished in natural language. Some methods of Artificial Intelligence can contribute to the solving of the natural language processing problems. The target for a multilingual extension of the system has imposed the restrictions that commands are kept simple and referring expressions such as deictic noun phrases and pronouns as well as anaphoric expressions are avoided. The interaction with the system is strictly based on dialogs with restricted options in order to increase the feasibility of the speech interface.
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Malagardi, I., Alexandris, C. (2009). Verb Processing in Spoken Commands for Household Security and Appliances. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments. UAHCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02710-9_11
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