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An Easy and Efficient Grammar Authoring Tool for Understanding Spoken Languages

Authors:
Antonio Rosario Intilisano
Salvatore Michele Biondi
Raffaele Di Natale
Vincenzo Catania
Ylenia Cilano

Keywords: Spoken Language Understanding; Natural Language Understanding; Spoken Dialog System; Grammar Definition.

Abstract:
Abstract— In a Spoken Dialog System, the Spoken Language Understanding component recognizes words that were previously included in its grammar. The development of a grammar is a time-consuming and error-prone process, especially for the inflectional or Neo-Latin languages. In fact, the developer must include manually all the existing inflected forms of a word. Generally, a regular software developer does not combine linguistic and engineering expertise in spoken language understanding. For this reason, we developed a tool that produces a grammar for different languages, in particular for Romance languages, for which grammar definition is long and hard to manage. This paper describes a solution to facilitate the development of speech-enabled applications and introduces a grammar authoring tool that enables regular software developers with little speech/linguistic background to rapidly create quality semantic grammars for spoken language understanding.

Pages: 57 to 66

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2015

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679