Procedures for Integrating Knowledge in a Speech Understanding System

نویسندگان

  • Donald E. Walker
  • William H. Paxton
  • Barbara J. Grosz
  • Gary G. Hendrix
  • Ann E. Robinson
  • Jane J. Robinson
  • Jonathan Slocum
چکیده

T h i s paper d e s c r i b e s t h e p r o c e d u r e s f o r i n t e g r a t i n g knowledge f rom d i f f e r e n t s o u r c e s i n t h e SRI speech u n d e r s t a n d i n g s y s t e m . A language d e f i n i t i o n sys tem c o o r d i n a t e s — a t t h e ph rase l e v e l — i n f o r m a t i o n f rom s y n t a x , s e m a n t i c s and d i s c o u r s e i n t h e cou rse o f t h e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f a n u t t e r a n c e . The sys tem e x e c u t i v e uses t h e s e c o n t e x t u a l c o n s t r a i n t s i n a s s i g n i n g p r i o r i t i e s t o a l t e r n a t i v e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s , c o m b i n i n g t o p d o w n , b o t t o m u p , and b i d i r e c t i o n a l s t r a t e g i e s a s r e q u i r e d E x p e r i m e n t a l r e s u l t s t h a t d e m o n s t r a t e t h e e f f e c t i v e n e s s o f c o n t e x t c h e c k i n g a r e d i s c u s s e d .

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تاریخ انتشار 1977