Charting the depths of robust speech parsing

• DOI: 10.3115/1034678.1034741
• Publication Date: 2007-05-11T15:06:22Z
• Authors: W. Kasper; B. Kiefer; H. U. Krieger; C. J. Rupp; K. L. Worm
• Keywords: Speech translation

We describe a novel method for coping with ungrammatical input based on the use of chart-like data structures, which permit anytime processing. Priority is given to deep syntactic analysis. Should this fail, best partial analyses are selected, according shortest-paths algorithm, and assembled in robust processing phase. The has been applied speech translation project large HPSG grammars.