Title
Comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding: a case study
Abstract
Previous work has demonstrated the success of statistical lan- guage models when enough training data is available (1), but despite that, grammar-based systems are proving the preferred choice in successful commercial systems such as HeyAnita (2), BeVocal (3) and Tellme (4), largely due to the difficulty in- volved in obtaining a corpus of training data. Here we trained an SLM on data obtained using a grammar-based system and compared the performance of the two systems with regards to recognition. We also parsed the output of the SLM using a ro- bust parser and compared the accuracy of the semantic output of the systems. The SLM/robust parser showed considerable im- provement on unconstrained input, and similar precision/recall (per slot value) on utterances provided by trained users.
Year
Venue
Field
2001
INTERSPEECH
Training set,Computer science,Speech recognition,Grammar,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Parsing,Recall,Language model
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
31
3.18
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sylvia Knight1313.18
Genevieve Gorrell226622.00
Manny Rayner350889.27
David Milward419627.51
Rob Koeling543438.38
Ian Lewin624625.58