Developing a Corpus -Based Grammar Model Within a Continuous Commercial Speech Recognition Package
Eric Atwell, Gavin E. Churcher, Clive Souter · White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) · 1995
This paper is derived from experiments with a commercial 'off-the-shelf' continuous speech recognition system, applied to the apparently restricted domain of Air Traffic Control (ATC) for light aircraft. The system is required to transcribe key sub-phrases in a transmission by the ATC to a particular aircraft, the commercial speech recognition system providing the main recognition component. After the development of a corpus of transmissions, it was realised that key information is often interspersed with unconstrained English. Initial attempts focused on using a wildcard mechanism for the non-key subphrases. The mechanism, however, proved to be valuable only in simplistic grammars due to its overgenerative nature. The speech recognition system showed us that whilst useful mechanisms are provided, such as the wildcard mechanism, they tend to make over-simplistic assumptions about English grammar and dialogue structure. 1 Introduction This paper is concerned with the initial findings ...