Speech & natural language publications

The discourse and task information in task oriented dialogs and their use in a speech understanding system are discussed in this paper.

The system is distinctive in the way that knowledge of various sources is coordinated by a "best-first" parser to predict the sequence of words in an utterance, and in the…

This paper describes current progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with emphasis is given to describing it as an independent field of study having both applied-technological and scientific-theoretical branches.

This paper describes a parsing system specifically designed for spoken rather than written input. The parser is part of a project to develop a computer system for understanding speech.

Stanford Research Institute is participating in a major program of research on the analysis of continuous speech by computer. The goal is the development of a speech understanding system capable…

The major development area involves work on question-answering systems, now coming to be called "computer understanding." The change in terminology indicates an enrichment and elaboration of the components of such…