High level knowledge sources in usable speech recognition systems

  • Authors:
  • S. L. Young;A. G. Hauptmann;W. H. Ward;E. T. Smith;P. Werner

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Greenfield Educational Software, Pittsburgh, PA;MAD Intelligent Systems, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

The authors detail an integrated system which combines natural language processing with speech understanding in the context of a problem solving dialogue. The MINDS system uses a variety of pragmatic knowledge sources to dynamically generate expectations of what a user is likely to say.