{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Mechanical Inference Problems in Continuous Speech Understanding","authors":[{"name":"William A. Woods","slug":"william-a-woods","given":"William A.","family":"Woods","affiliation":""},{"name":"John Makhoul","slug":"john-makhoul","given":"John","family":"Makhoul","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper presents and discusses examples of mechanical inference problems which nust be solved in order to construct effective mechanical speech understanding systems. The examples are taken from incremental simulations of a prototype speech understanding systen 'YThich will use syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information as well as acoustical and phonological information to mechanically \"understand\" continuous speech utterances.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/26","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/0026.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/26.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/bibtex/26","volume":{"slug":"1973","title":"Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1973","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/","year":1973,"location":"Stanford, California, USA","dates":"20-23 August 1973","editors":"Nils J. Nilsson","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language: Speech","track":"Natural Language: Speech","number":26,"pages":{"first":200,"last":206},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}