TR-IT-0172 :June 1996

Laurel Fais, Suguru Mizunashi, and Kyung-ho Loken-Kim

EMMI Progress Report: An Evaluation of Research Done with the First EMMI Interface

Abstract:Three experiments (same language, human-human; bilingual, human-interpreted; and bilingual, machine-interpreted) were conducted in the context of the first EMMI interface. All of the analyses done on the data gathered in these experiments are collected and summarized here. The effectiveness of the multimedia component of EMMI is assessed in relation to telephone mode; it is also evaluated as an interface for automatic language processing. Conclusions drawn from these evaluations and from direct examination of the system itself form the basis for the design of a second interface, also described here.