Welcome to IM2.MDM (2002-2005)

MDM was an Individual Project in the phase I of the (IM)2 National Centre of Competence in Research, Switzerland, from 2002 to 2005. The phase II of (IM)2 has started in January 2006 (see ISSCO/TIM contributions).

The goal of MDM is to define a framework for multimodal dialogue understanding by a computer program, with contributions on both theoretical and applicative grounds. Two main applications are targeted: human-to-human multimodal dialogue tracking, summarization and topical indexing; human-to-machine information retrieval interface, in which the multimodal dialogue-based search possibilities should enable sophisticated natural language queries.

This IP is coordinated by ISSCO / TIM / ETI, Prof. Susan Armstrong (University of Geneva). The other participating teams are LITH / EPFL, Prof. Giovanni Coray, and LIA / EPFL, Dr. Martin Rajman (both from the Federal Polytechnical Institute, Lausanne).

Other IM2 websites
- Main (IM)2 website: http://www.im2.ch
- ISSCO/TIM contributions: http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/im2/
- IM2.DI, Document Integration project: http://diuf.unifr.ch/im2/
- IM2.IP, Media File Server: http://mmm.idiap.ch