Robust grammatical analysis for spoken dialogue systems

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-93

  Noord, Gertjan Van ^a   Bouma, Gosse ^a   Koeling, Rob ^a   Nederhof, Mark Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009209747     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1351324999002156     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Agnas, M.-S., Alshawi, H., Bretan, I., Carter, D., Ceder, K., Collins, M., Crouch, R., Digalakis, V., Ekholm, B., Gamback, B., Kaja, J., Karlgren, J., Lyberg, B., Price, P., Pulman, S., Rayner, M., Samuelsson, C. and Svensson, T. (1994) Spoken Language Translator: First-year report. Technical report, SICS and SRI Cambridge, Cambridge Computer Research Centre. (Available as crc043/paper.ps.Z from http://www.cam.sri.com/tr/.)
2. Allen, J. F., Miller, B. W., Ringger, E. K. and Sikorski, T. (1996) A robust system for natural spoken dialogue. 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 62–70, University of California, Santa Cruz.
3. Alshawi, H. (editor) (1992) The Core Language Engine. Cambridge, MA: ACL-MIT Press.
4. Alshawi, H., Carter, D., Crouch, R., Pulman, S., Rayner, M. and Smith, A. (1992) CLARE: A contextual reasoning and cooperative response framework for the Core Language Engine. Technical report, SRI International, Cambridge Computer Research Centre. (Available as cmp-lg/9411002 from http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg.)
5. Alshawi, H. and Crouch, R. (1992) Monotonic semantic interpretation. 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 32–39, Newark, Delaware.
6. Aust, H. Oerder, M., Seide, F. and Steinbiss, V. (1995) The Philips automatic train timetable information system. Speech Communication 17: 249–262.
7. Block, H. U. (1994) Compiling trace & unification grammar. In: T. Strzalkowski (editor), Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, pp. 155–174.
8. Bod, R. and Scha, R. (1997) Data-oriented language processing: An overview. Technical Report 38, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology.
9. Bonnema, R., Bod, R. and Scha, R. (1997) A DOP model for semantic interpretation. 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid.
10. Bonnema, R., van Noord, G. and van Zanten, G. V. (1998) Evaluation results NLP components OVIS2. Technical Report 57, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology. (Available from http://odur.let.rug.nl:4321/.)
11. Boros, M., Eckert, W., Gallwitz, F., Gorz, G., Hanrieder, G. and Niemann, H. (1996) Towards understanding spontaneous speech: Word accuracy vs. concept accuracy. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Proceesing (ICSLP 96), Philadelphia.
12. Bouma, G. (1992) Feature structures and nonmonotonicity. Computational Linguistics 18(2).
13. Briscoe, T. and Carroll, J. (1993) Generalised probabilistic lr parsing of natural language (corpora) with unification-based grammars. Computational Linguistics 19(1): 25–60.
14. Briscoe, T., Grover, C., Boguraev, B. and Carroll, J. (1987) A formalism and environment for the development of a large grammar of English. Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 703–708, Milan.
15. Carpenter, B. (1992) Skeptical and credulous default unification with applications to templates and inheritance. In: T. Briscoe, A. Copestake and V. de Paiva (editors), Default Inheritance within Unification-Based Approaches to the Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Carroll, J. (1993) Practical unification-based parsing of natural language. PhD thesis, Cambridge University.
17. Cooper, R., Crouch, R., van Eijck, J., Fox, C., van Genabith, J., Jaspars, J., Kamp, H. Pinkal, M., Poesio, M. and Pulman, S. (1994) Fracas deliverable d8: Describing the approaches. Technical report, Centre For Cognitive Science, Edinburgh. (Available by ftp from ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk, pub/FRACAS/.)
18. Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest (1990) Introduction to Algorithms. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
19. Davidson, D. (1967) The logical form of action sentences. In: N. Rescher (editor), The Logic of Decision and Action. University of Pittsburgh Press.
20. Dijkstra, E. W. (1959) A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Numerische Mathematik 1: 269–271.
21. Frank, A. (1994) Verb second by lexical rule or by underspecification. Technical report, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Stuttgart.
22. Gazdar, G., Klein, E., Pullum, G. and Sag, I. (1985) Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
23. Hukari, T. E. and Levine, R. D. (1995) Adjunct extraction. Journal of Linguistics 31(2): 195–226.
24. Jackson, E., Appelt, D., Bear, J., Moore, R. and Podlozny, A. (1991) A template matcher for robust NL interpretation. Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 190–194, Pacific Grove, CA.
25. Johnson, M. and Done J. (1995) Memoization of coroutined constraints. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 100–107, Boston, MA.
26. Koeling, R. (1997) Moving on the dialogue game board. Second Tbilisi Symposium Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilisi State University.
27. Mellish, C. S. (1988) Implementing systemic classification by unification. Computational Linguistics 14(1): 40–51.
28. Moore, R., Pereira, F. and Murveit, H. (1989) Integrating speech and natural-language processing. Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 243–247, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
29. Nederhof, M.-J. Bouma, G., Koeling, R. and van Noord, G. (1997) Grammatical analysis in the OVIS spoken-dialogue system. Proceedings of the ACL/EACL Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, pp. 66–73, Madrid, Spain.
30. Nerbonne, J. (1992) Constraint-based semantics. In: P. Dekker and M. Stokhof (editors), Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 425–444, ITLI Amsterdam.
31. Netter, K. (1992) On non-head non-movement. In: G. Gorz (editor), KONVENS 92. Springer-Verlag.
32. Nilsson, N. (1971) Problem Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence. McGraw-Hill.
33. van Noord, G. (1995) The intersection of finite state automata and definite clause grammars. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 159–165, MIT, Cambridge, MA. (Available from http://www.let.rug.nl/Nannoord/papers/.)
34. van Noord, G. (1997) An efficient implementation of the head corner parser. Computational Linguistics 23(3): 425–456.
35. van Noord, G. (1997) Evaluation of OVIS2 NLP components. Technical Report 46, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology.
36. van Noord, G. and Bouma, G. (1994) Adjuncts and the processing of lexical rules. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 250–256, Kyoto. (Available from http://www.let.rug.nl/Nannoord/papers/.)
37. van Noord, G. and Bouma, G. (1997) Dutch verb clustering without verb clusters. In: P. Blackburn and M. de Rijke (editors), Specifying Syntactic Structures. CSLI Publica-tions/Folli, Stanford, pp. 123–153.
38. van Noord, G. and Bouma, G. (1997) Hdrug, a flexible and extendible development environment for natural language processing. proceeds's of the EACL/ACL Workshop on Environments for Grammar Development, Madrid.
39. Oerder, M. and Ney, H. (1993) Word graphs: An efficient interface between continuous-speech recognition and language understanding. ICASSP Volume 2, pp. 119–122.
40. Pereira, F. C. N. and Warren, D. (1980) Definite clause grammars for language analysis-a survey of the formalism and a comparison with augmented transition networks. Artificial Intelligence 13.
41. Pinkal, M. (1995) Logic and Lexicon. Kluwer.
42. Pollard, C. and Sag, I. (1994) Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. University of Chicago/CSLI.
43. Pulman, S. (1996) Unification encodings of grammatical notations. Computational Linguistics 22(3): 295–328.
44. Sag, I. (1997) English relative clause constructions. Journal of Linguistics 33: 431–484.
45. Scha, R. (1990) Taaltheorie en taaltechnologie; competence en performance. Computer-toepassingen in de Neerlandistiek. Landelijke Vereniging van Neerlandici (LVVN Jaarboek), Almere.
46. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, G. (1996) Semantics of update expressions. Technical Report 24, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology. (http://odur.let.rug.n1:4321/.)
47. Ward, W. (1989) Understanding spontaneous speech. Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 137–141, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.