| 摘要 |
Apparatus and method are provided for segmenting (28), persing (30), interpreting and formatting (38) the content of instructions such as air traffic control instructions. Output from a speech recognizer (14, 22) is so processed to produce such instructions in a structured format such as for input to other software. There are two main components: an instruction segmenter (28) and a robust parser (18, 30). In the instruction segmenter (28), the recognized text produced by the speech recognizer (14, 22) is segmented into independent instructions and each instruction is processed. The instruction segmenter (28) receives a recognized air traffic control or other instruction, and segments it into individual commands. Utterances or other language are thereby broken up into their component instructions by detecting probable instruction boundaries. If normal processing fails, then robust backup processing (34) is invoked, as a fallback after a fixed time per word has elapsed or a processing failure has occurred. The robust parser (18, 30) allows the system (10, 20) to extract information from utterances that are not necessarily well formed or may have extraneous comments in them. |
