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  <Title>D. R. HirE, An Abbreviated Guide to Planning for Speech Interaction with Machines: the State of the Art, in ~ International Journal of Man-Machine Stu-</Title>
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TOWARDS COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR CONVERSING IN POLISH 153
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    <Paragraph position="0"> stance on the GIER computer, the only available one when the project was started. It was decided to write the programs in GIER ALGOl. 4 and to split the analysis and synthesis parts of the system into passes because of fast storage constraints. At the moment all parts of the system have been implemented, the tables of the system have been debugged and thoroughly tested; small dictionaries for testing purposes have been prepared. Still before us is checking the system as a whole, working according to some testing scripts.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the future we want to rewrite the MARYSIA system for a bigger and faster computer (it will probably be the IBM 360) and to develop some utility programs to facilitate loading the backing dictionaries and script writing. We will also check the generality of the system tables by preparing a German language version of the MARYSIA system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> As far as the long-term plans are concerned, the following tasks are to be solved. First, it will be necessary to improve the adequacy of the MARYSlA morphological component by increasing the number of entries in the dictionaries. Secondly, it will be necessary to develop systems which will cover the higher levels of the language; because of our &amp;quot;bottom-up &amp;quot; approach to language description it will be the syntax that will be elaborated next. The third direction of the research can be called developing text-world interfaces; I mean by this accepting texts prepared for typesetting devices, optical character recognition, and voice input and output. For technical reasons, the ocR will probably be excluded; speech processing by computer is the interest of another group at Warsaw University and we hope to join together at a suitable moment, which should not be before developing at least a good syntactic parser (following the recent ideas of e.g.D.R. HILL, 1972).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Therefore in the near future we will be interested only in input of text coded on different kinds of media used in the printing industry.</Paragraph>
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