A hybrid computational model for spoken language understanding

This paper shows that the integration of statistical and connectionist methods can greatly enhance human-computer interaction through speech. The research approach is inspired by recent advances in high performance automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and neurocognitive researches of natural language understanding (NLU). And a modest hybrid computational model is proposed and implemented to achieve intelligent spoken language understanding (SLU) in an information retrieval system.

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