Susann LuperFoy
Discourse Management Mechanism
on Spoken Dialogue Processing
(in an MT System)
Abstract:Discourse research can contribute to the Interpreting Telephony (IT) enterprises in two ways: (1)
externally - it provides the terminology for appropriate description of the IT dialogue task, a way
of defining the properties of the IT system as a tool for managing a highly specialized type of
interpersonal interaction, and (2) internally - it provides the computational techniques for
integrating a discourse processing module with other components of the IT software system, such
as Speech Recognition (SR) and Natural Language (NL) Analysis. I will discuss how to define the
essential discourse properties of the IT system and how to approach solutions at the discourse
level. Particular attention is given to the possible modes for conveying information to the SR
module.