On 12th November 2024, Professor Haris Mouratidis, Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science and Full Professor at the University of Essex, presented the ELOQUENCE project at the Infocom 2024 event organized by OTE in Greece. The event brought together various projects centred around data and technology, with a specific focus on innovations driving the future of digital systems.
The Infocom 2024 event provided an ideal platform for the project to engage with a broad spectrum of industry experts, business partners, and academic researchers. By presenting the project’s latest advancements in this high-profile forum, the ELOQUENCE team was able to raise awareness and generate interest in the project’s potential to drive innovation and collaborations across various sectors.
Enhancing Multilingual, Cross-Cultural Dialogue Systems
In his presentation “ELOQUENCE: Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications,” Professor Mouratidis highlighted the impact of the ELOQUENCE project on developing dialogue systems capable of operating in multilingual environments while ensuring safety and minimizing biases.
Professor Mouratidis’s presentation emphasized the importance of creating dialogue systems that can understand cultural nuances and adapt to diverse linguistic backgrounds, but keep on ensuring that biases—whether in speech recognition or decision-making—are mitigated.
The ELOQUENCE team not only informed the audience about the technical achievements but also showcased its potential to revolutionize sectors requiring high levels of safety, accuracy, and trust in AI systems. This event also served as an opportunity to create collaborations that could lead to further development and real-world deployment of the systems being researched and developed under the ELOQUENCE initiative.
