ISCA Archive ISCSLP 1998
ISCA Archive ISCSLP 1998

Spoken Languang Understanding in Spoken Dialog System for Travel Information Accessing

Xin Zhang, Chengqing Zong, Chao Huang, Shubin Zhao, Taiyi Huang

This paper briefly introduces the VOTIRS 2.0 system — a Chinese spoken dialog system for travel information accessing. Through this system, users can query the travel information about 52 routes and finally make a transaction for a proper travel plan. The strategy and method to understand spontaneous speech in the system are discussed in detail. To understand spontaneous speech, a Semantic Constituent Spotting and Assembling (SCoSA) hierarchical model is proposed. It is a semantic-driven multi-phase parsing process similar with human’s understanding process. The model is efficient in parsing spontaneous speech.