input: Text: Grad B: Grad D: How many batteries do you go through? Grad B: Thank you. Professor C: Alright. PhD A: Sure. Professor C: Good. Yeah. OK so, let's get started. Nancy said she's coming and that means she will be. Um. My suggestion is that Robert and Johno sort of give us a report on last week's adventures uh to start. So everybody knows there were these guys f uh from Heidelber - uh, uh, actually from uh DFKI uh, part of the German SmartKom project, who were here for the week and, I think got a lot done. Grad E: Yeah, I think so too. Um. The <unk>disfmarker<unk> we got to the point where we can now speak into the SmartKom system, and it 'll go all the way through and then say something like " Roman numeral one, am Smarticus. " It actually says, " Roemisch einz, am Smarticus, " Grad B: OK. Grad E: which means it's just using a German sythesis module for English sentences. Grad B: OK. Grad E: So uh, Professor C: It doesn't know " I ". Grad B: OK. Grad E: Um, the uh Grad B: Oh, Am Spartacus. " Grad D: " I am Sm - I am Smarticus " is what it's saying. PhD A: Right. Grad B: Verstehe. OK. Grad D: I gue Grad E: The uh sythesis is just a question of um, hopefully it's just a question of exchanging a couple of files, once we have them. And, um, it's not going to be a problem because we decided to stick to the so - called concept to speech approach. So I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I'm
  Question: What was the general discussion of the meeting?
  Answer:
output: The meeting discussed various topics such as data collection and updates on the German parser. They discussed XML modifications and future thoughts on the ontology. Additionally, object representations will include an EVA vector. This can be incorporated in the database entry for a particular building or inherited from the ontology of the building type. The actual number of the inputs can create a combinatorial explosion when setting the probabilities. In any case, further to fulfilling the basic requirements (translating the parser and the generator into english), the project is entirely open-ended in terms of focus of research.