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This paper discusses some issues of developing a parser for spoken Estonian which is based on an already existing parser for written language, and employs the Constraint Grammar framework.
When we used a corpus of face-to-face everyday conversations as the training and testing material, the parser gained the recall 97.6% and the precision 91.8%. The parsing of institutional phone calls turned out to be a more complicated task, with the recall dropping by 3%. In this paper, we will focus on parsing nonfluent speech using a rule-based parser. We will give an overview of parsing errors and ways to overcome them.
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Müürisep, K., Nigol, H. (2008). Where Do Parsing Errors Come From. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_22
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