Research Catalog

Title

Understanding spoken language / Donald E. Walker, editor.

Publication

• New York : North-Holland, [1978]
• ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

Walker, Donald E., 1928-

Description

xviii, 410 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Responding appropriately to the matter-of-fact utterances is a common form of intelligent behavior, but specifying precisely, rather loosely or intuitively, what takes places in even the most ordinary conversational exchanges poses formidably complex problems. This book is about those problems as they were faced in order to design and implement a computer system for processing spoken English discourse within a limited domain in an intelligent manner. "In an intelligent manner" is a key concept of the design. Because of it, the design, implementation and testing reported here are as germane to artificial intelligence, linguistics and psychology as they are to the sciences of signal processing and speech.

Series Statement

• The computer science library
• Artificial intelligence series

Uniform Title

• Computer science library
• Artificial intelligence series (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Gesprochene Sprache
• Interactive computer systems
• Artificial intelligence
• Computational linguistics
• Artificial Intelligence
• artificial intelligence
• computational linguistics
• Automatische Sprachanalyse
• Automatische Spracherkennung
• Künstliche Intelligenz
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Natural language processing (Computer science)
• Gesprochene Sprache
• Automatische Sprachanalyse
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Automatische Spracherkennung

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 393-402.

Contents

Section 1. Introduction and overview ; Introduction and overview / Donald E. Walker -- Section 2. A framework for speech understanding ; The language definition system / William H. Paxton -- The executive system / William H. Paxton -- Experimental studies / William H. Paxton -- Section 3. Semantic knowledge ; The representation of semantic knowledge / Gary G. Hendrix -- The model of the domain / Gary G. Hendrix -- Semantic aspects of translation / Gary G. Hendrix -- Section 4. Discourse knowledge ; Discourse / Barbara J. Grosz -- Discourse analysis / Barbara J. Grosz -- Focus spaces : a representation of the focus of attention of a dialog / Barbara J. Grosz -- Resolving definite noun phrases / Barbara J. Grosz -- Shifting focus / Barbara J. Grosz -- Ellipsis / Barbara J. Grosz -- Discourse : recapitulation and a look ahead / Barbara J. Grosz -- Section 5. Responding on the basis of having understood ; Determining an appropriate response / Gary G. Hendrix -- The deduction component / Richard E. Fikes and Gary G. Hendrix -- Generating a verbal response / Jonathan Slocum -- Section 6. Conclusion ; Conclusion / Ann E. Robinson -- Appendix. An example to illustrate processing in the system.

ISBN

• 0444002723
• 9780444002723
• 0444002871
• 9780444002877

LCCN

78017856

OCLC

• ocm03965755
• 3965755
• SCSB-242970

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library