How NLP techniques can improve speech understanding: ROMUS - A robust chunk based message understanding system using link grammars

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2773-2776

  Goulian, Jérôme ^a   Antoine, Jean Yves ^a   Poirier, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SYNTACTICS;

CONCEPT HIERARCHIES; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTIC STRUCTURES; SHALLOW PARSING; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TWO-STAGE PROCESS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009188420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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