Title
Turning Speech Into Scripts
Abstract
We describe an architecture for implementing spoken natural language dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems, in which the central idea is to transform the input speech signal through successive levels of representation corresponding roughly to linguistic knowledge, dialogue knowledge, and domain knowledge. The final representation is an executable program in a simple scripting language equivalent to a subset of CSHELL. At each stage of the translation process, an input is transformed into an output, producing as a by-product a "meta-output" which describes the nature of the transformation performed. We show how consistent use of the output/meta-output distinction permits a simple and perspicuous treatment of apparently diverse topics including resolution of pronouns, correction of user misconceptions, and optimization of scripts. The methods described have been concretely realized in a prototype speech interface to a simulation of the Personal Satellite Assistant.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
scripting language,domain knowledge
Field
DocType
Volume
Architecture,Programming language,Domain knowledge,Computer science,Natural language,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Speech interface,Machine learning,Executable,Scripting language
Journal
cs.CL/0006
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Dialogues with Practical Robotic Devices, March 20-22, 2000. Stanford, CA
1
0.92
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manny Rayner150889.27
Beth Ann Hockey221236.35
Frankie James38212.68