Progress in Speech Understanding Research at SRI

Abstract : This paper describes the current status of research being performed by Stanford Research Institute on the development of a speech understanding system capable of engaging a human operator in a conversation about a specific task domain. The design and implementation of the system are being carried out in conjunction with the System Development Corporation. Following a brief overview, the following system components are discussed in turn: System Control, Language Definition, Semantic Analysis, and Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics.