David House (dhouse@mitre.org)

M.S., Computer Science & Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, 1995
B.S., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 1993

Master's Thesis

Spoken Language Access to Multimedia ( SLAM ):

A Multimodal Interface to the World-Wide Web

Spoken Language Access to Multimedia (SLAM) is a spoken language extension to the graphical user interface of the World-Wide Web browser Mosaic. SLAM uses the complementary modalities of spoken language and direct manipulation to improve the interface to the vast variety of information available on the Internet. To make the advantages of spoken language systems available to a wider audience, the speech recognition aspects can be performed remotely across a network. SLAM is believed to be the first spoken-language interface to the World-Wide Web to be easily implemented across platforms.

Postscript versions of an associated Masters Thesis [197 K] and Technical Report [95 K] are available.

For the curious, here's a (currently outdated) copy of my resume.

Publications/Presentations

• I. Mani, D. House, M. Maybury, and M. Green, "Towards Content-Based Browsing of Broadcast News Video", in M. Maybury, ed., Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, AAAI Press, to appear

• D. House, I. Mani, and E. Bloedorn, "Scalable Text Summarization for the World Wide Web", Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Symposium, Washington DC, March 28, 1996

• David G. Novick, David House, Mark Fanty and Ronald A. Cole, "A Multimodal Browser for the World-Wide Web,", Technical Report, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, June 1995.

• House, David, "Spoken-Language Access to Multimedia (SLAM): A Multimodal Interface to the World-Wide Web," Masters Thesis, Oregon Graduate Institute, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, April 1995.