Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog. Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester. Peter A. Heeman. Spoken Dialogue Understanding and Local Context . Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, July 1994.
Spoken dialogue poses many new problems to researchers in the field of computational linguistics.
In particular, conversants must detect and correct speech repairs, segment a turn into individual utterances, and identify discourse markers. These problems are interrelated. So, these issues must be addressed together. The resolution of these problems will allow a basic understanding of how a speaker's turn can be broken down into individual contributions to the dialogue. We propose that this resolution must be and can be done using local context.