Accession Number:

ADA193761

Title:

Integration of Speech and Natural Language

Descriptive Note:

Interim rept. 30 Dec 1986-31 Mar 1988

Corporate Author:

BBN LABS INC CAMBRIDGE MA

Personal Author(s):

• Ayuso, D.
• Chow, Y.
• Haas, A.
• Ingria, R.
• Roucos, S.

Report Date:

1988-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

90.0

Abstract:

This report presents our work on integrating speech and natural language processing for speech understanding. It describes the components of the system the unification grammar and corresponding parser, the higher order intensional logic and the type system used for semantic interpretation, and the search strategy used for speech understanding. Keywords Unification grammars, parsing, natural language processing, Compositional semantics, Intensional logic, Higher order logic speech recognition, Speech understanding, hidden Markov models.

Descriptors:

• *SPEECH RECOGNITION
• ALGORITHMS
• GRAMMARS
• INFORMATION PROCESSING
• INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• INTEGRATION
• MARKOV PROCESSES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• NATURAL LANGUAGE
• PARSERS
• SEARCHING
• SEMANTICS
• SPEECH
• SPEECH ANALYSIS
• STRATEGY

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE