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  <Title>1993 BENCHMARK TESTS FOR THE ARPA SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROGRAM</Title>
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1. INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Benchmark tests were implemented within the ARPA Human Language Technology research program during the period November 1993 - January 1994. As in tests conducted last year, the large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition technology tests made use of Wall Street Journal-based Continuous Speech Recognition (WSJ-CSR) corpus material which was collected at SRI International (SRI) under contract to the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Spoken language understanding technology tests made use of ARPA Air Travel Information System (ATIS) material collected at several sites, processed at NIST, annotated at SRI, and provided to participating members of the LDC.</Paragraph>
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