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  <Title>The Delphi Natural Language Understanding System</Title>
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10 Conclusion And Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In conclusion, we have developed a technology that makes maximal use of general linguistic knowledge to improve portability, while at the same time maintaining robustness in the face of the type of input one can expect from a real-life spoken language application. The system has been shown to reach high levels of performance in objective blind-test evaluation on the ATIS domain. The system has also been shown to be rapidly portable to a new domain, SPLINT. This did not require any changes in the underlying system code, and was done with a relatively small effort.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This work shows that computational linguistic methods, based on general knowledge of language, can be used in large, robust spoken language systems, and that special-purpose NL understanding systems do not have to be built for each new task.</Paragraph>
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