Robust grammatical analysis for spoken dialogue systems

G Van Noord, G Bouma, R Koeling… - Natural language …, 1999 - cambridge.org
Natural language engineering, 1999cambridge.org
We argue that grammatical analysis is a viable alternative to concept spotting for processing
spoken input in a practical spoken dialogue system. We discuss the structure of the
grammar, and a model for robust parsing which combines linguistic sources of information
and statistical sources of information. We discuss test results suggesting that grammatical
processing allows fast and accurate processing of spoken input.
We argue that grammatical analysis is a viable alternative to concept spotting for processing spoken input in a practical spoken dialogue system. We discuss the structure of the grammar, and a model for robust parsing which combines linguistic sources of information and statistical sources of information. We discuss test results suggesting that grammatical processing allows fast and accurate processing of spoken input.
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