Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
2004-08-25
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, July 3-5, 2000, Bellagio, Italy
Computer Science
Computation and Language
6 pages
Scientific paper
In this paper we summarized a framework for designing grammar-based procedure for the automatic extraction of the semantic content from spoken queries. Starting with a case study and following an approach which combines the notions of fuzziness and robustness in sentence parsing, we showed we built practical domain-dependent rules which can be applied whenever it is possible to superimpose a sentence-level semantic structure to a text without relying on a previous deep syntactical analysis. This kind of procedure can be also profitably used as a pre-processing tool in order to cut out part of the sentence which have been recognized to have no relevance in the understanding process. In the case of particular dialogue applications where there is no need to build a complex semantic structure (e.g. word spotting or excerpting) the presented methodology may represent an efficient alternative solution to a sequential composition of deep linguistic analysis modules. Even if the query generation problem may not seem a critical application it should be held in mind that the sentence processing must be done on-line. Having this kind of constraints we cannot design our system without caring for efficiency and thus provide an immediate response. Another critical issue is related to whole robustness of the system. In our case study we tried to make experiences on how it is possible to deal with an unreliable and noisy input without asking the user for any repetition or clarification. This may correspond to a similar problem one may have when processing text coming from informal writing such as e-mails, news and in many cases Web pages where it is often the case to have irrelevant surrounding information.
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Pallotta Vincenzo
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