%0 Report %@ 92 %A Paxton, William H. %T A Best-First Parser %C 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025 %I AI Center, SRI International %D 1974 %K Speech Understanding, Parser %X A parser for a speech understanding system is described. The parser uses a best-first strategy in which alternative paths are assigned priorities and paths are suspended as long as there is a higher priority alternative to explore. Discussions are included on the types of steps in a parse, the assignment of priorities, cooperation among competing parses, and experimental results. %O SRI Project 1526. Proceeding IEEE Speech Symposium, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, April 15-19, 1974. The work reported herein was sponsored by the Advanced Research projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Contract DAH04-72-C-0009 with the U. S. Army Research Office. %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1490.pdf
