New techniques for speech understanding

  • Authors:
  • P. Bianchini;P. Ferragina;M. Notturno Granieri;L. Tarricone

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM SEMEA, Scientific and Technical Solutions Center, Rome, Italy;IBM SEMEA, Scientific and Technical Solutions Center, Rome, Italy and Dip. Scienza dell'Informazione, Universita' di Pisa;IBM SEMEA, Scientific and Technical Solutions Center, Rome, Italy;IBM SEMEA, Scientific and Technical Solutions Center, Rome, Italy and European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing, Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP'93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech, and signal processing: speech processing - Volume II
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A standard semantic analyser accepting dictated sentences belonging to a grammar is used in a vocal information retrieving system. In this paper we mainly address the problem of managing sentences not in the grammar and errors from the speech recognizer. Three different methods are proposed, based respectively on alignment techniques, logical rules and neural networks. The results show that almost 85% of sentences out of grammar - even because of recognizer's errors - are correctly understood.