Semantics and Speech Understanding

Abstract

Syntactic constraints and expectations are based on the patterns formed by a given set of linguistic objects, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Pragmatic ones arise from notions of conversational structure and the types of linguistic behavior appropriate to a given situation. The bases for semantic constraints and expectations are an a priori sense of what can be meaningful and the ways in which meaningful concepts can be realized in actual language. The paper describes how semantics is being used in several recent speech understanding systems. It then expands the generalities of the first section with a detailed discussion of some actual problems that have arisen in the attempt to understand speech.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0787616

Entities

People

  • Bonnie L. Nash-webber

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Signals
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Management
  • Grammars
  • Igneous Rocks
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Recognition
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Theoretical Analysis.