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- From: cole@harpo.cse.ogi.edu (Ron Cole)
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- Subject: Report Available: Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding
- Keywords: speech, workshop, language understanding
- Message-ID: <48208@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:16:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.48208
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- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Computer Science & Engineering
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- Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding
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- The technical report entitled ``Workshop on Spoken Language
- Understanding'' was authored by participants of a workshop
- sponsored by the NSF in February, 1992. The workshop brought
- together scientists from a number of disciplines to identify
- research directions needed to produce spoken language systems, and
- the infrastructure needed to support the research.
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- ``A spoken language system combines speech recognition, natural
- language processing and human interface technology. It functions by
- recognizing the person's words, interpreting the sequence of words to
- obtain a meaning in terms of the application, and providing an
- appropriate response back to the user. Potential applications of
- spoken language systems range from simple tasks, such as retrieving
- information from an existing database (traffic reports, airline
- schedules), to interactive problem solving tasks involving complex
- planning and reasoning (travel planning, traffic routing), to support
- for multi-lingual interactions.''
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- The report examines seven key areas in which basic research is needed
- to produce spoken language systems: (1) Robust Speech Recognition;
- (2) Automatic Training and Adaptation; (3) Spontaneous Speech;
- (4) Dialogue Models; (5) Natural Language Response Generation;
- (6) Speech Synthesis and Generation; (7) Multi-lingual Systems; and
- (8) Interactive Multimodal Systems. In each area, the report identifies
- the key research challenges, and the potential benefits of the
- research. Additional sections of the report identify the
- infrastructure needed to support research and the expected benefits of
- the research. Finally, a set of recommendations are made to the NSF.
-
- A postscript file of the report can be obtained by anonymous ftp from:
-
- %ftp cse.ogi.edu or [129.95.40.2]
- Name: anonymous
- Password: [your name]
- ftp> cd pub
- ftp> cd tech-reports
- ftp> cd 1992
- ftp> binary
- ftp> get 92-014.ps.Z
- ftp> quit
-
- Finally, the "92-014.ps.Z" file is in compressed format. Use the
- Unix command "uncompress 92-014.ps.Z" to uncompress the file, which
- automatically removes the ".Z" suffix. Its is
- now ready to print.
-
- A hard copy may be obtained by surface mail by sending your
- address to vincew@cse.ogi.edu.
-