Semantic analysis in a robust spoken dialog system
Wieland Eckert, Heinrich Niemann · 1994
In this paper we describe the semantic interpretation process of utterances in a spoken dialog system for train table inquiries. Spoken dialogs show a large set of prob-lems in human–machine–communication like stops, cor-rections, filled pauses, non grammatical sentences, el-lipses, unconnected phrases etc. In our robust approach we are able to handle a substantial amount of them. While the principles of robustness are shared in several mod-ules, in this paper we concentrate on the aspect of robust semantic analysis and domain specific interpretation of spoken utterances.