Generating Speech Recognition Grammars with Compositional Semantics
		      from Unification Grammars

			      Johan Bos

In this talk I will introduce a method to compile unification grammars
into speech recognition packages. I will focus on how to transfer
semantic operations (such as functional application), and in
particular discuss the difficulties that arise for left-recursive
productions. Used in practical applications, the resulting speech
grammars will associate general domain independent meaning
representations with recognised strings, making a subsequent
traditional parsing processing step redundant. I will conclude with
presenting some promising practical results.