Software architectures for incremental understanding of human speech

A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing

“…In future work, we will attempt to describe more existing systems (such as (DeVault and Stone, 2003;Aist et al, 2006;) in the terms developed here, to more thoroughly investigate the coverage of our concepts. We are also currently exploring how more cognitively motivated models such as the model of speech generation by (Levelt, 1989) can be specified in our framework.…”

“…This typically has taken the form of letting a parser interact with extra-syntactic knowledge. (Despite considerable differences in the way this effect is achieved, (DeVault and Stone, 2003;Stoness et al, 2005;Aist et al, 2006Aist et al, , 2007 can all be subsumed under this description. )…”

“…While there recently have been a number of papers about incremental systems (e.g., (DeVault and Stone, 2003;Aist et al, 2006;), none of those offer general considerations about architectures, 5 which is what we are trying to offer in the following.…”

“…We will only characterise those properties of IUs that are needed for our purpose of specifying different system types and ba-5. Despite its title, (Aist et al, 2006) also only describes one particular setup. sic operations needed for incremental processing; we will not say anything about the actual, module specific payloads of these units.…”