Verbmobil from a Software Engineering point of view.pptVIP

Verbmobil from a Software Engineering point of view System Design and Software Integration Andreas Klüter sonicson GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany Many partners delivered software ... Software Technology Challenges The goal Build an integrated system The situation Researchers do research Using different programming languages Researchers don’t want to be bothered with technical details The solution Introducing: the System Group Introducing: the Testbed The Graphical User Interface Visualization and Debug Tools … Service Modules: Convenient development, integration, testing, ... The Testbed: Integration Framework for NLP-Systems PCA - Pool Communication Architecture Distributed Execution Supports Distributed Development Thank you for your interest! Andreas Klüter sonicson GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany NLP System Software Engineering Chennai, 17./18. Feb 04 .... and much more VisualizationManager Automatic TestModule SynchronizationModule User Command Mapper Arbitration of Concurrent Modules GUI Testbed Manager 5 - Testbed Black-board X Black-board Y Black-board Z TestbedManager GUI ModuleA ModuleB ModuleC M1 M2 M3 M5 M6 M4 BB 2 BB 1 BB 3 M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 Verbmobil I Verbmobil II Multi-Agent Architecture Multi-Blackboard Architecture ? Modules know all communication partners ? Direct communication between modules ? Reconfiguration difficult ? Software: ICE and ICE Master ? Basic Platform: PVM ? Modules know their I/O data pools ? No direct communication between modules 198 blackboards vs. 2380 direct comm. paths ? Reconfiguration easy ? Several instances of one module/functionality ? Software: PCA and Module Manager ? Basic Platform: PVM Blackboards (= ?Pools“) Audio Data Word Hypotheses Graph with Prosodic Labels VITs Underspecified Discourse Representations Command Recognizer Spontaneous Speech Recognizer Channel/Speaker Adaptation Prosodic Analysis Statistical Parser Dialog Act Recognition Chunk Parser HPSG Parser Semantic Construction