Beyond class A: a proposal for automatic evaluation of discourse

  • Authors:
  • Lynette Hirschman;Deborah A. Dahl;Donald P. McKay;Lewis M. Norton;Marcia C. Linebarger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HLT '90 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

The DARPA Spoken Language community has just completed the first trial evaluation of spontaneous query/response pairs in the Air Travel (ATIS) domain.1 Our goal has been to find a methodology for evaluating correct responses to user queries. To this end, we agreed, for the first trial evaluation, to constrain the problem in several ways:Database Application: Constrain the application to a database query application, to ease the burden of a) constructing the back-end, and b) determining correct responses;