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A bottom-up parser is a type of parser that processes a text or other input from the bottom up, starting with the individual tokens or elements of the input and gradually combining them into more complex structures. This is in contrast to a top-down parser, which processes the input from the top down, starting with the highest-level structures and breaking them down into smaller pieces.
Bottom-up parsers are often used in natural language processing and other applications that involve analyzing and interpreting complex, structured inputs. For example, in a dialog system, a bottom-up parser could be used to analyze the user’s input and identify the individual words and phrases that make up the input. The parser could then use this information to determine the intended meaning of the input, and to generate an appropriate response.
One advantage of using a bottom-up parser in a dialog system is that it can handle a wide range of inputs and variations, including inputs that may be incomplete or ungrammatical. This can make the dialog system more flexible and robust, and can help it to provide more natural and intuitive interactions with the user.
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SPIN: A semantic parser for spoken dialog systems R Engel – Proceedings of the Fifth Slovenian And First …, 2006 – nl.ijs.si … order-independent matching is that most of the generated WMs are irrelevant for further processing in other modules within the dialog system as they … In a standard bottom-up parser, the result of a rule application is always added to the al- ready existing set of alternative WMs. … Cited by 18 Related articles All 8 versions Cite Save More
Semantic processing using the hidden vector state model Y He, S Young – Computer speech & language, 2005 – Elsevier … Semantic processing is one of the key elements in spoken dialogue systems. … In the simple task oriented spoken dialogue systems which form the focus of our current work, each user utterance is converted to a dialogue act containing a set of attribute-value pairs such as … Cited by 128 Related articles All 14 versions Cite Save
Incremental parsing with reference interaction SC Stoness, J Tetreault, J Allen – Proceedings of the Workshop on …, 2004 – dl.acm.org … 3.1 An Incremental Parser The pre-existing parser in the dialogue system was a pure bottom-up chart parser with a hand-built gram- mar suited for parsing task-oriented dialogue. … 1994. Interleaving syntax and semantics in an efficient bottom-up parser. In Proc. … Cited by 22 Related articles All 25 versions Cite Save
Using application-specific ontologies to improve performance in a bottom-up parser M Gatius, M González – Proceedings of the Workshop KRAQ’06 on …, 2006 – dl.acm.org … The use of ontologies has proved specially ap- propriate for dialogue systems in complex do- mains (complex concepts and relations) as … We have described how a bottom-up parser uses the application specific knowledge associ- ated with the lexical entries (obtained from the … Cited by 3 Related articles All 10 versions Cite Save
Incremental parsing models for dialog task structure S Bangalore, AJ Stent – Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … In typical commercial dialog systems, the interpre- tation and generation processes operate indepen- dently of each other, with only a small amount … work most closely related to ours is that of Barrett and Weld (Barrett and Weld, 1994), who build an incremental bottom-up parser … Cited by 11 Related articles All 15 versions Cite Save
Spoken language understanding using the hidden vector state model Y He, S Young – Speech Communication, 2006 – Elsevier … In summary, it is argued that constrained statistical parsers such as the HVS model allow robust spoken dialogue systems to be built at relatively low cost, and which can be automatically adapted as new data is acquired both to improve performance and extend coverage. … Cited by 58 Related articles All 15 versions Cite Save
Continuous or discontinuous constituents? A comparison between syntactic analyses for constituent order and their processing systems S Müller – Research on Language and Computation, 2004 – Springer … with the head-trace with the expectation that ultimately one can license this subcategorization list by finding the appropriate verbal filler for the head trace.5 If the grammar contains other empty elements that can be combined with the verbal trace, a bottom-up parser will not … Cited by 75 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save
A clustering approach to semantic decoding. H Ye, S Young – INTERSPEECH, 2006 – Citeseer … The target application area for the type of semantic decoding being described in this paper is limited domain spoken dialog systems. … [3] Dowding, J., Moore, R., Andry, F., Moran, D., “Interleav- ing syntax and semantics in an efficient bottom-up parser”, In Proc. … Cited by 12 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save More
Statistical approach to the semantic analysis of spoken dialogues F Jurcicek – 2007 – Citeseer … 2003. 36, Interleaving syntax and semantics in an efficient bottom-up parser – Dowding, Moore, et al. – 1992. … Charles University – The Karolinum – Haji? – 2004. 18, DATE: A dialogue act tagging scheme for evaluation of spoken dialogue systems – Walker, Passonneau – 2001. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save More
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