Publication of the first public Working Draft of EMMA 1.1

I am pleased to announce that the Multimodal Interaction Working Group has
published the First Public Working Draft  of EMMA 1.1.
(http://www.w3.org/TR/emma11/).

EMMA 1.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation in February 2009. Since then
there have been numerous implementations of the standard and extensive
feedback has come in regarding desired new features and clarifications
needed of existing features. New features proposed in this draft include:
1. support for adding human annotations (such as transcription) to an EMMA
document. This will be very helpful in supporting tuning of speech or
multimodal applications, by simplifying the process of comparing recognizer
results with the correct interpretation. 
2. support for inline specification of process parameters
3. support for specification of models used in processing beyond grammars,
for example, for speaker verification or face recognition
4. extensions to emma:grammar to enable inline specification of grammars
5. a new mechanism for indicating which grammars are active, which should be
very helpful in diagnosing incorrect recognition results. 
6. support for non-XML application semantics (for example,  JSON)
7. support for multiple emma:info elements and reference to the emma:info
relevant to an interpretation, which should make the emma:info element much
more useful
8. a new attribute that enables specification of the modality used to
express an input (emma:expressed-through). This enhances the compatibility
of EMMA with Emotion Markup Language (http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/).

While adding these new features we have made every attempt to maintain
backwards compatibility with EMMA 1.0.

You may also be interested in a collection of use cases for future EMMA
versions which we published in December, 2009,
(http://www.w3.org/TR/emma-usecases/), where other potential EMMA features
are discussed.

Since this is the first publication of a draft specification which has the
goal of becoming a W3C standard, we are particularly interested in comments.
Comments should be sent to this list (www-multimodal@w3.org>, the public
email list for issues related toMultimodal). Please prefix your subject line
with '[EMMA]'.  
We are very much looking forward to your comments. 

Best regards,

Debbie Dahl
Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair

Received on Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:17:26 UTC