ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems (IDS-99) June 22-25, 1999 Kloster Irsee, Germany

Development of Japanese Spontaneous Speech Database and Meaning Extraction Based on Semantic Caseframe on Scheduling Task

Akira Kurematsu

Course of Electronics Engineering, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

This paper describes the issue of analysis of spontaneous speech in Japanese in the scheduling task and the procedure of transcription and segmentation into words. The experiment of meaning extraction was conducted using the corpus of spontaneous speech in the scheduling task which is suitable for the research on spontaneous dialog processing. The framework of semantic lexicon and the structure of semantic caseframe which focuses the verbal words in phrase are described. The results of the preliminary experiment of the meaning extraction of the spontaneous speech in the scheduling task dialogue are shown.

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Bibliographic reference.  Kurematsu, Akira (1999): "Development of Japanese spontaneous speech database and meaning extraction based on semantic caseframe on scheduling task", In IDS-99, 41-44.