Management and evaluation of interactive dialog in the air travel domain

  • Authors:
  • Lewis M. Norton;Deborah A. Dahl;Donald P. McKay;Lynette Hirschman;Marcia C. Linebarger;David Magerman;Catherine N. Ball

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

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

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Abstract

This paper presents the Unisys Spoken Language System, as applied to the Air Travel Planning (ATIS) domain. This domain provides a rich source of interactive dialog, and has been chosen as a common application task for the development and evaluation of spoken language understanding systems. The Unisys approach to developing a spoken language system combines SUMMIT (the MIT speech recognition system [6]), PUNDIT (the Unisys language understanding system [3]) and an Ingres database of air travel information for eleven cities and nine airports (the ATIS database). Access to the database is mediated via a general knowledge-base/database interface (the Intelligent Database Server [4]). To date, we have concentrated on the language understanding and database interface components.