TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding Resources [Best of the Web]
Gökhan Tür, Ye‐Yi Wang, Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine · 2013
In this issue, "Best of the Web" focuses on spoken language understanding (SLU), an emerging field in between the areas of speech processing and natural language processing. Since SLU is not a single stand-alone technology, unlike speech recognition or synthesis, it is hard to present a single application. The term spoken language understanding has largely been coined for targeted understanding of human speech directed at machines, although understanding human/human conversations or even human/human/machine interactions are vibrant areas of research. For a more comprehensive survey of SLU tasks, readers are referred to [1].