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A fully statistical approach to natural language interfaces

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David Stallard,

Richard SchwartzAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '96: Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 55 - 61

https://doi.org/10.3115/981863.981871

Published: 24 June 1996 Publication History

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We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpretation, and discourse. Each of these stages is modeled as a statistical process. The models are fully integrated, resulting in an end-to-end system that maps input utterances into meaning representation frames.

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ACL '96: Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

June 1996

399 pages

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Aravind Joshi
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

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