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For a spoken dialog system to hold a natural conversation with humans, the parsing module has to be able to analyze a human utterance in real-time, obtain its semantic expression, and send it to the discourse-processing module. It is difficult to make such a parsing module because of the existence of phenomena that cannot be dealt with by the grammar for written sentences (Nakano, Shimazu and Kogure, 1994). Of those phenomena, this paper focuses on self-repairs and treats paraphrases and repetitions as kinds of self-repairs.
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Nakano, M., Shimazu, A. (1999). Parsing Utterances Including Self-Repairs. In: Wilks, Y. (eds) Machine Conversations. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 511. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5687-6_9
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