UNIANCE UNIANCE converts linguistically motivated unification grammars into Nuance probabilistic speech grammars, also known as GSL (grammar specification language). The software and tools for UNIANCE have been developed at the Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh by Johan Bos and Tetsushi Oka. Download It requires Sicstus Prolog to run (it might run also under SWI Prolog, perhaps after some changes in the code). It has been tested with Sictus 3.8.4 on a sparc-solaris-5-7. The distribution comes as a gzipped tarfile comprising example grammars, documentation, and Prolog sources. Download Version 1.27. The tool gen_gsl_prob, for estimating probabilities based on a corpus is available here. Publications on UNIANCE Johan Bos (2002): Compilation of Unification Grammars with Compositional Semantics to Speech Recognition Packages. COLING 2002. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Pages 106-112. Download: ps.gz, pdf.gz Malte Gabsdil, Johan Bos (2003): Combining Acoustic Confidence Scores with Deep Semantic Analysis for Clarification Dialogues. Proceedings of IWCS-5. Download: pdf. Johan Bos, 12 Feb 2003