Hypothesis Generation and Maintenance in the Interpretation of Spoken Utterances
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The DORIS project (Dialogue Oriented Roaming Interactive System) aims to develop a spoken dialogue module for an autonomous robotic agent. This paper examines the techniques used by Scusi? , the speech interpretation component of DORIS, to postulate and assess hypotheses regarding the meaning of a spoken utterance. The results of our evaluation are encouraging, yielding good interpretation performance for utterances of different types and lengths.
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