Towards meaning-oriented language modeling

Author

Wirsching, Gunther ; Lorenz, Robert

Author_Institution

Mathematisch-Geographische Fak., Katholische Univ. Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Eichstatt, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

374

Abstract

Based on a mathematical model for Skinner´s functional analysis of Verbal Behavior, we derive formal definitions for the concepts semantic anchor, utterance-meaning pair, and micro-local grammar. We show how these concepts can be used for designing a bidirectional interface connecting automatic speech recognition to meaning oriented language processing. A semi-automatic process for constructing components for such an interface from sparse data, e. g. collected from Wizard of Oz experiments, is described. Finally, we use our formal approach to investigate some questions concerning the formal complexity of natural language.

Keywords

computational complexity; grammars; natural language processing; speech recognition; automatic speech recognition; bidirectional interface; formal complexity; meaning-oriented language modeling; micro-local grammar; natural language; semantic anchor; semi-automatic process; utterance-meaning pair; Context; Grammar; Mathematical model; Natural languages; Semantics; Speech; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1543-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CogInfoCom.2013.6719273

Filename

6719273