A Locally-Organized Parser for Spoken Input This paper describes LPARS, a locally-organized parsing system, designed for use in a continuous speech recognizer. LPARS processes a string of phonemes which contains ambiguity and error. The system is locally-organized in the sense that it builds local parse structures from reliable word candidates recognized anywhere in an input utterance. These local structures are used as "islands of reliability" to guide the search for more highly garbled words which might complete the utterance. CACM November, 1974 Miller, P. L. parsing, speech recognition, speech understanding, augmented transition network, local parsing 3.42 3.65 3.69 CA741103 JB January 16, 1978 10:41 AM 2581 4 2581 2739 4 2581 2795 4 2581 2921 4 2581 3087 4 2581 1989 5 2581 2581 5 2581 2581 5 2581 2581 5 2581