Updated MINDS Report on Speech Recognition and Understanding

This article is the second part of an updated version of the “MINDS 2006–2007 Report of the Speech Understanding Working Group,” one of five reports emanating from two workshops entitled “Meeting of the MINDS: Future Directions for Human Language Technology,” sponsored by the U.S. Disruptive Technology Office (DTO). (MINDS is an acronym for “machine translation, information retrieval,  natural-language processing, data resources, and speech understanding.”) For further information, please see http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/ minds.html.