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Robust grammatical analysis for spoken dialogue systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

GERTJAN VAN NOORD
Affiliation:
Alfa-Informatica & BCN, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
GOSSE BOUMA
Affiliation:
Alfa-Informatica & BCN, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
ROB KOELING
Affiliation:
Alfa-Informatica & BCN, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
MARK-JAN NEDERHOF
Affiliation:
Alfa-Informatica & BCN, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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