Dialogue system localization with the GF resource grammar library

Perera, Nadine; Ranta, Aarne

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“…The feasibility of rapid localization of dialogue systems which use GF grammars has been demonstrated in the GoTGoDiS (Ericsson et al, 2006) system, and in experiments by Perera and Ranta (2007).…”

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Speech recognition grammar compilation in Grammatical Framework

Bringert

2007

Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing - SLP '07

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This paper describes how grammar-based language models for speech recognition systems can be generated from Grammatical Framework (GF) grammars. Context-free grammars and finite-state models can be generated in several formats: GSL, SRGS, JSGF, and HTK SLF. In addition, semantic interpretation code can be embedded in the generated context-free grammars. This enables rapid development of portable, multilingual and easily modifiable speech recognition applications.

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Speech recognition grammar compilation in Grammatical Framework

Bringert

2007

Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing - SLP '07

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“…Ten years of experience with GF has shown good results in domain‐specific translation . Systems have been built for various domains, such as mathematics (Hallgren and Ranta 2000; Caprotti 2006), software specifications (Burke and Johannisson 2005), dialogue systems for traffic information (Ljunglöf et al 2006) and for music players (Perera and Ranta 2007) and restaurant reviews (Meza Moreno and Bringert 2008). In a domain‐specific translation task, the abstract syntax is built to reflect domain semantics , often in the same way as in an ontology (Dean and Schreiber 2004).…”

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“…As a small example of domain‐specific translation, consider music players as in Perera and Ranta (2007). The grammar defines dialogue moves , which in this application means commands and queries used for operating an MP3 player in a car.…”

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“…The European research project TALK (2004–2006) on dialogue systems introduced GF in spoken language applications. The aspects that were covered were dialogue management via abstract syntax (Ranta and Cooper 2004), multimodality (Bringert et al 2005), multilingual resource grammars (Ljunglöf et al 2006), language models for speech recognition (Jonson 2006; Bringert 2007b) and grammar engineering (Perera and Ranta 2007). These ingredients were combined in the multimodal and multilingual dialogue system TramDemo (Ljunglöf et al 2006).…”

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GF: A Multilingual Grammar Formalism

Ranta

2009

Language and Linguist. Compass

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GF (Grammatical Framework) is a grammar formalism designed for dealing with many languages simultaneously. A multilingual GF grammar has a language‐independent abstract syntax that deals with pure tree structures, and a set of language‐dependent concrete syntaxes that specify how the trees are expressed in different languages. Multilingual grammars formalize the idea that the same grammatical categories (such as noun phrases and verb phrases) and syntax rules (such as predication) can appear in different languages. They are also a powerful tool for natural language engineering, used for applications ranging from a translator of mathematical exercises to a dialogue system usable for talking with devices in a car. As a programming language, GF has constructs inherited from functional programming languages, an optimizing grammar compiler and code generation into several other formats. The most ambitious multilingual grammar is the GF Resource Grammar Library, which implements the main grammar rules of 12 languages. This library enables non‐linguist programmers to build linguistically correct applications. It is at the same time a linguistic experiment showing how far one can go in sharing structure between languages.

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“…A typical domain grammar, such as the one in Perera and Ranta (2007), has 100-200 syntactic combinations and a lexicon of a few hundred lemmas. Building the syntax with the help of the library is a matter of a few working days.…”

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Grammar development in GF

Ranta

Angelov

Bringert

2009

Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations Ses

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GF is a grammar formalism that has a powerful type system and module system, permitting a high level of abstraction and division of labour in grammar writing. GF is suited both for expert linguists, who appreciate its capacity of generalizations and conciseness, and for beginners, who benefit from its static type checker and, in particular, the GF Resource Grammar Library, which currently covers 12 languages. GF has a notion of multilingual grammars, enabling code sharing, linguistic generalizations, rapid development of translation systems, and painless porting of applications to new languages.

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Dialogue system localization with the GF resource grammar library

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Speech recognition grammar compilation in Grammatical Framework

Speech recognition grammar compilation in Grammatical Framework

GF: A Multilingual Grammar Formalism

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