Language modelling in EasyDial

This paper describes the module for the language model generation, integrated in EasyDial, the development environment for spoken dialogue systems designed in CSELT. The goal of this module is to allow the creation of language models for spoken dialogue systems, using advanced techniques, but maintaining low development costs. The integration in the EasyDial development environment gives the possibility to create a language model for a new domain without additional efforts of the application developer. In particular, the paper emphasises the generation techniques that allow a better adaptation of the language model to the application dialogue strategy. Moreover we present a solution for the creation of a bootstrap language model for a new application, without any additional development cost.