From Speech to Knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Verónica Dahl

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Information Extraction: Towards Scalable, Adaptable Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In human communication, assumptions play a central role. Linguists and logicians have uncovered their many facets. Much of AI work is also concerned with the study of assumptions in one way or another. Work on intuitionistic and linear logic has provided formally characterized embodiments of assumptions which have been influential on logic programming (e.g. [9,22,14]). In this article we examine some uses of assumptive logic programming for speech-driven database creation and consultation, for speech driven robot control, and for web access through language. This type of research can help relieve health problems related to the present typing/screen model of computer use. It can also partially address the need to integrate voice recognition, voice synthesis, and AI, along the route towards making computers into true extensions of our human abilities- extensions that adapt to our biology, rather than requiring our bodies to adapt.