On Adopting a Common Task for ARPA Speech Understanding Systems.
David Brill, Beatrice T. Oshika · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1975
The report investigates the implications of adopting a common task which might be shared by speech understanding systems being developed under Advanced Research Projects Agency support by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Carnegie-Mellon University, and System Development Coporation-Stanford Research Institute. Current task domains, lexicons, and syntax, semantics and pragmatics components of the three systems are described, and the characteristics of a possible common task are outlined. It is clear that mechanisms exist within all three systems to deal with a common task, but the implementation of such a task is considered feasible only as a long-range objective.