PARSEC: a structured connectionist parsing system for spoken language

  • Authors:
  • Ajay N. Jain;Alex Waibel;David S. Touretzky

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP'92 Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech and signal processing - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We present PARSEC-a system for generating connectionist parsing networks from example parses. PARSEC is not based on formal grammar systems and has been geared towards spoken language tasks. PARSEC networks exhibit three strengths important for application to speech processing: 1) they learn to parse, and generalize well compared to hand-coded grammars; 2) they tolerate several types of noise; 3) they can learn to use multimodal input. We present the PARSEC architecture, its training algorithms, and performance analyses along several dimensions that demonstrate PARSEC's features. We compare PARSEC's performance to that of traditional grammar-based parsing systems.