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\section{Work-Plan Summary}

The following work-plan was developed jointly with our European partners and
describes the work-plan for the project as a whole, including activities that
were not described in detail in this proposal, but which are detailed in the
European version of the proposal.  We identify four major sets of activities
spanning the whole temporal extent of the \spectrum project: (a) the study,
development and evaluation of HLT modules (speech recognition/synthesis,
interlingua-based and direct translation methods, multi-engine approaches); (b)
activities related to the multimedia/multimodality issues; (c) activities
targeting communication robustness; and (d) the translation of emotions.  The
first three lines of investigation and development will converge with the
realization of Showcase-1, due by month 18, which will demonstrate
(communication) robust multilingual and multimedia-based conversation in the
wireless help-desk for the traveller.  The showcase will be evaluated on real
data in a real mobile setting, in order to stress and evaluate robustness, and
quality of interaction.  The results will feed the second phase, whereby
improvements on all the relevant research lines will be pursued, and converge
within Showcase-2, due by month 36.  The second showcase will also integrate
the results concerning the translation of emotions.

The following table summarizes the joint work-plan for the \spectrum project.
The list of deliverables mentioned in the last column of the table can be
found in the European proposal for \spectrum, which is included as an appendix.

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