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title: "Speech Understanding Through Syntactic and Semantic Analysis"
authors:
  - "Donald E. Walker"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/27"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/0027.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1973
pages: "208-214"
track: "Natural Language: Speech"
keywords:
---

# Speech Understanding Through Syntactic and Semantic Analysis

Donald E. Walker

*Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 208-214.

## Abstract

Stanford Research Institute is participating in a major program of research on the analysis of continuous speech by computer. The goal is the development of a speech understanding system capable of engaging a human operator in a natural conversation about a specific problem domain. The approac h being taken is distinctive in the extent to which it depends on syntactic and semantic proc essi ng to guide the acoustic analysis. This paper provides a description of the first version of the system, emphasizing the kinds of information that need to be added for effective r es ult s.