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This study provides an overview of the major results achieved by a project in the field of natural speech understanding. The book describes the complete speech understanding system, from the speech input of a question to the answer formulated in spoken natural language. All the components of the system are described in detail: speech recognition algorithms, understanding techniques, hardware based on Digital Speech Processing (DSP) and parallel architectures and languages. The main features of the system described are continuous speech, a vocabulary size of 1000 words, training independent of application vocabulary, natural language with limited syntactic coverage and constrained semantic domain relevant to a database enquiry. The book should be useful for researchers involved with the problem of designing a speech understanding system as well as for advanced students interested in the principles and fundamentals.

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Author:   Giancarlo Pirani
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9783540534020

ISBN 10:   3540534024
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   07 November 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction to the Book.- 1.1 Historical Notes.- 1.2 Overview of the Book.- 2 The Recognition Algorithms.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 System Description.- 2.3 Lexicon Structure.- 2.4 Word Representation.- 2.5 Verification Module.- 2.6 Continuous Speech.- 2.7 Conclusions.- 3 The Real Time Implementation of the Recognition Stage.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 System Overview.- 3.3 Hardware Details.- 3.4 Firmware Blocks Details.- 3.5 Some Details on Other System Functions.- 3.6 System Evaluations.- 3.7 Conclusions.- 4 The Understanding Algorithms.- 4.1 Overview.- 4.2 Representation of Syntax.- 4.3 Representation of Semantics.- 4.4 The Compiler of Conceptual Graphs and Dependency Rules.- 4.5 Parsing — Conceptual Level.- 4.6 Parsing — Memory Structures.- 4.7 Parsing — Dealing with Missing Words.- 4.8 Experimental Results.- 5 Implementation of a Parallel Logic + Functional Language.- 5.1 Overview.- 5.2 Applications.- 5.3 Languages.- 5.4 Models of Computation.- 5.5 Language Implementation and Execution.- 5.6 Hardware Architecture.- 5.7 Conclusions.- 6 Conclusions and Future Developments.- 6.1 Recognition Algorithms.- 6.2 Real-time Hardware Implementation.- 6.3 Understanding Algorithms.- 6.4 The Role of a Dialogue Manager.

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