Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition

An Open-Source Environment for Compiling Typed Unification Grammars into Speech Recognisers

We present REGULUS, an Open Source environment which compiles typed unification grammars into context free grammar language models compatible with the Nuance Toolkit. The environment includes a large general unification grammar of English and corpus-based tools for creating efficient domainspecific recognisers from it. We will demo applications built using the system, including a speech transla...

A baseline method for compiling typed unification grammars into context free language models

This paper presents a minimal enumerative approach to the problem of compiling typed unification grammars into CFG language models, a prototype implementation and results of experiments in which it was used to compile some non-trivial unification grammars. We argue that enumerative methods are considerably more useful than has been previously believed. Also, the simplicity of enumerative method...

Compilation of Unification Grammars with Compositional Semantics to Speech Recognition Packages

A Development Environment for Building Grammar-Based Speech-Enabled Applications

We present a development environment for Regulus, a toolkit for building unification grammar-based speech-enabled systems, focussing on new functionality added over the last year. In particular, we will show an initial version of a GUI-based top-level for the development environment, a tool that supports graphical debugging of unification grammars by cutting and pasting of derivation trees, and...

Converting Grammatical Framework to Regulus

We present an algorithm for converting Grammatical Framework grammars (Ranta, 2004) into the Regulus unification-based framework (Rayner et al., 2006). The main purpose is to take advantage of the Regulusto-Nuance compiler for generating optimized speech recognition grammars. But there is also a theoretical interest in knowing how similar the two grammar formalisms are. Since Grammatical Framew...