Towards natural language understanding of partial speech recognition results in dialogue systems

Authors:
Kenji Sagae;Gwen Christian;David DeVault;David R. Traum
Affiliations:
University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA
Venue:
NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We investigate natural language understanding of partial speech recognition results to equip a dialogue system with incremental language processing capabilities for more realistic human-computer conversations. We show that relatively high accuracy can be achieved in understanding of spontaneous utterances before utterances are completed.