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Using knowledge acquisition to build spoken language systems

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Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW 1997)

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The development of spoken language interfaces is of increasing importance due to the progress in speech recognition technology. Unfortunately, the development of comprehensive dialog system is still too labour-intensive to allow their widespread dissemination. This paper presents a new approach to the design of spoken language dialog systems. We view the design task as a knowledge acquisition and knowledge maintenance task. We developed a workbench, PIA, which allows continuous knowledge acquisition and maintenance without a knowledge engineer. It uses also the available data to produce suggestions of how to amend the current knowledge base to accommodate new cases of recorded dialog interactions. First experimental results with our workbench are promising.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Stefan Kaspar & Achim Hoffmann

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Kaspar, S., Hoffmann, A. (1997). Using knowledge acquisition to build spoken language systems. In: Plaza, E., Benjamins, R. (eds) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. EKAW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026800

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