@conference{Alexandrisetal2005, author = "Alexandris, C. and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Efthimiou, Eleni", abstract = "We propose that emphasis as a prosodic marker can be used for disambiguating Greek spatial and temporal expressions in a task-oriented dialog system, contributing to the production of clear, definite and specific instructions and to a naturally-sounding spoken output produced by the system's Conversational Agent. Our claim is supported by the use of extra-linguistic markers as pointers to the core of the semantic content of sentences in spoken Greek sublanguages (Alexandris {\&} Fotinea, 2004b), as well as data from two sets of transcribed spoken corpora from the domains of Engineering and Broadcast News.", address = "Las Vegas, Nevada, USA", booktitle = "Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2005)", keywords = "speech application, Greek, machine translation, emphasis, ambiguity resolution", pages = "22-27 July ", title = "{E}mphasis as an {E}xtra-Linguistic {M}arker for {R}esolving {S}patial and {T}emporal {A}mbiguities in {M}achine {T}ranslation for a {S}peech-to-Speech {S}ystem involving {G}reek ", year = "2005", }