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  <Title>A * Bilingual VOYAGER System 1</Title>
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FUTURE PLANS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we described our recent effort at converting VOYAGER to a bilingual platform. We are encouraged by our preliminary results, and will continue to improve its capabilities in all directions, including context-dependent phonetic models, a robust parsing capability modeled after our ATIS system, and an expansion of its knowledge domain. We are currently porting the VOYAGER system to other languages including French, Italian, and German. We plan to collect data for all languages in scenario collection format in order to acquire 54 more goal-oriented speech. We would also like to incorporate a pointing mechanism into the system, since the VOYAGER application lends itself to this kind of multi-modal input.</Paragraph>
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