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Compiling Language Models from a Linguistically Motivated Unification Grammar
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James +3
Systems now exist which are able to compile unification grammars into language models that can be included in a speech recognizer, but it is so far unclear whether non-trivial ling…
A Comparison of the XTAG and CLE Grammars for English
Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner, Frankie James
When people develop something intended as a large broad-coverage grammar, they usually have a more specific goal in mind. Sometimes this goal is covering a corpus; sometimes the de…
A Compact Architecture for Dialogue Management Based on Scripts and Meta-Outputs
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James
We describe an architecture for spoken dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems that transforms speech signals through successive representations of linguistic, dialogue, and…
Turning Speech Into Scripts
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James
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 sign…