Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the relationship between language and ideology and explores how such a relationship is represented in the analysis of spoken text and to show how declarative knowledge, beliefs, attit...

The papers in this session were concerned with higher-level processing in speech recognition systems and, in some cases, the interface between the speech-recognition and natural-language components of a spoken language system. The session consisted of talks from four DARPA sites, Dragon Systems, SRI International, BBN Systems and Technologies, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. These talks were follow...

Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating the usability of different interface designs requires a method for comparing performance of different versions of the SLS. Recently, Walker et al (1997) proposed PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue Sys...

In this paper we present the design and the implement of the language understanding component of a Chinese spoken language dialogue system EasyNav . In pursuing the coherence with the goal of understanding, we design the structure of system with speech decoding and language understanding integrated closely. Thus the language understanding component need to be restrictive besides portable. Actua...