Speech Understanding Research: Collected Papers, 1973-1974

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Abstract:

The report consists of a collection of papers describing the BBN Speech Understanding system, a research prototype computer system designed to understand and respond appropriately to instructions, commands, and questions expressed in ordinary continuous speech. This system attempts to combine knowledge of vocabulary and of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic constraints with knowledge of acoustics, phonetics, and phonology to form an integrated speech understanding system, using the knowledge from those higher level linguistic constraints to compensate for acoustic and phonological indeterminacies.

Author(s):
Bates, Madeleine ; Colarusso, John J. ; Makhoul, John I. ; Nash- Webber, Bonnie L. ; Rovner, Paul D.
Author Organization(s):
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC CAMBRIDGE MA
Supplementary Note:
Presented at the IEEE Symposium on Speech Recognition at Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, on 15-19 Apr 1974.
Pagination:
0045

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
BBN-2856, AI-17
Contract/Grant Number(s):
DAHC15-71-C-0088, ARPA ORDER-1697
Monitor Series:
DARPA
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_5.4.5_Intuit; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_5.2.2_Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_6.3.3_Spectrum Management; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_4.5.4_Requirements Definition; JCA_4.5_Operational Contract Support; JCA_6.3_Net Management
Modernization Areas:
Microelectronics
Communities of Interest:
Advanced Electronics
Descriptor(s):
*SPEECH RECOGNITION, SEMANTICS, SPEECH REPRESENTATION, SYNTAX
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Hardware, Voice Communications
Keyword(s):
Question answering systems, Natural language, Parsing, Feature extraction
Report Date:
1974 Jul 01