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Natural language understanding

Known as: Language understanding, Machine reading, NLU 
Natural language understanding (NLU) is a subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading… 
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Semantic Frame‐Based Spoken Language Understanding
Semantic frame based spoken language understanding (frame-based SLU) is one of the most commonly applied and well studied SLU… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Illness perceptions in mental health: Issues and potential applications
Understanding patients’ perceptions of their condition has proved a useful way of predicting behaviour in patients suffering from… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Boosting with prior knowledge for call classification
The use of boosting for call classification in spoken language understanding is described in this paper. An extension to the… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
TELEPHONE SPEECH CORPUS DEVELOPMENT AT CSLU
This paper describes eight telephone-speech corpora at various stages of development at the Center for Spoken Language… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Abductive interpretation and reinterpretation of natural language utterances
To decide how to respond to an utterance, a speaker must interpret what others have said and why they have said it. Speakers rely… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Real-time Control of Animated Broad Agents
As autonomousagents’ interactions with humans become richer, we believe it will become increasingly important for some of the… 
1992
1992
A logical model of competence and performance in the human sentence processor
This work is concerned with the way in which principled theories of syntax and modular theories of mind may participate in an… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The MIT SUMMIT Speech Recognition System: A Progress Report
Recently, we initiated a project to develop a phonetically-based spoken language understanding system called SUMMIT. In contrast… 
1988
1988
Parsing Noisy Sentences
This paper describes a method to parse and understand a "noisy" sentence that possibly includes errors caused by a speech… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Usable natural language interfaces through menu-based natural language understanding
Conventional natural language interfaces suffer from several ease-of-use problems. They require a user to type and to formulate… 
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