Title
A Probabilistic Approach to the Interpretation of Spoken Utterances
Abstract
In this paper we describe Scusi? , the speech interpretation component of a spoken dialogue module designed for an autonomous robotic agent. Scusi? postulates and maintains multiple interpretations of the spoken discourse, and employs a probabilistic formalism to assess and rank hypotheses regarding the meaning of spoken utterances. These constituents in combination enable Scusi? to cope gracefully with ambiguity and speech recognition errors. The results of our evaluation are encouraging, yielding good interpretation performance for utterances of different types and lengths.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-89197-0_53
PRICAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
good interpretation performance,speech interpretation component,dialogue module,multiple interpretation,spoken utterances,probabilistic approach,probabilistic formalism,autonomous robotic agent,different type,speech recognition error,rank hypothesis,speech recognition
Parse tree,Computer science,Interpretation Process,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Formalism (philosophy),Ambiguity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5351
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.76
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ingrid Zukerman1994113.39
Enes Makalic25511.54
Michael Niemann3223.22
Sarah George4151.22