Multilingual Personalised Information Objects

1 Abstract The M-PIRO project targets the concept of personalised information objects—that is, entities capable of responding to requests for information by taking into account what the requester already knows, what they are most interested in, and how the related information is to be made available. MPIRO's technology allows textual and spoken descriptions of exhibits to be generated automatically from an underlying language-neutral database, and from existing free-text descriptions. The resulting descriptions, produced in three different languages (English, Greek, and Italian), are tailored according to the user's interests, background knowledge, and language skills. Particular research emphasis is placed on the improvement of the speech output quality via a closer integration between text generation and speech synthesis technologies.