AE3STRACT This paper presents our recent research in developing L'ATIS, a French
version of the MIT Air Travel Information Service (ATIS) system used to interrogate a
database derived from the Official Airline Guide (OAG). We have adopted an approach of
accessing the English based system at the level of the semantic frame, so as to produce a
language-independent meaning representation. Thus the same core back-end component
as in the English-based version can be used, with only the input and output modules …