\mysection{Technical Specifications and Domain Specifications}

Devising specifications and requirements for the domains, scenario,
translation modules, and their integration into the showcases corresponds to
Workpackage~2 in the European {\sc Nespole!} proposal.  It will be lead by
CLIPS.  This workpackage involves:

{\bf Domain Specifications:} delimiting the extent of coverage and 
the structure of the two domains - Travel Planning and Help Desk.

{\bf Scenarios Requirements:} developing specifications for how the 
clients are expected to interact with the e-service providers
including the types of multimedia presentations and multimodal
interactions that are required

{\bf Translation Modules and Resources Specification:} 
specifications for the IF representations, the input and output specifications
for the translation modules in all languages, the required linguistic 
resources that are to be developed, and specifications for data and corpora 
collection and annotation.

{\bf Architectural Requirements:} requirements and 
specifications for the adopted hardware, for the communication network
and for the software needed for integrating the different
functionalities

{\bf Testing and Evaluation Specification:} a detailed plan for the 
various testing and evaluation activities, including objectives,
thresholds and procedures.  Evaluation specifications will be designed
for both single modules (such as the analysis module for any
particular language), as well as comprehensive specifications for the
STST system as a whole, the evaluation of the showcases and the
evaluation of the effectiveness of multimedia and multimodal
interactions.


