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This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only using 1st level labels a considerable lower expense of annotation effort can be achieved. In this paper we derive hierarchical non-deterministic automata from the ECFGs, which are transformed into transition networks (TNs) representing all kinds of labels. A sequence of recognized words is hierarchically decoded by using a Viterbi algorithm. In experiments the difference between a hand-labeled tree bank annotation and our approach is evaluated. The conducted experiments show the superiority of our proposed framework. Comparing to a hand-labeled baseline system (\(\widehat{=} 100\%\)) we achieve 95,4 % acceptance rate for complete sentences and 97.8 % for words. This induces an accuray rate of 95.1 % and error rate of 4.9 %, respectively F1-measure 95.6 % in a corpus of 1 300 sentences.
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Schwärzler, S., Schenk, J., Wallhoff, F., Ruske, G. (2008). Natural Language Understanding by Combining Statistical Methods and Extended Context-Free Grammars. In: Rigoll, G. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5096. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69321-5_26
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