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Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits - The M-PIRO Project
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.Comment: 15 pages. Presented at the 29th Conference on Computer Applications
and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Gotland, Sweden, 2001. A version of
the paper with higher quality images can be downloaded from:
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~ionandr/caa_paper.pd