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This chapter presents SPIN, a newly developed template-based semantic parser used for the task of natural language understanding in SmartKom. The most outstanding feature of the approach is a powerful template language to provide easy creation and maintenance of the templates and flexible processing. Nevertheless, to achieve fast processing, the templates are applied in a sequential order that is determined offline.
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Engel, R. (2006). Natural Language Understanding. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36678-4_13
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