If natural language understanding systems are ever to cope with the full range of English language forms, their designers will have to incorporate a number of features of the spoken vernacular language. This communication discusses such features as non-standard grammatical rules, hesitations and false starts due to self-correction, systematic errors due to mismatches between the grammar and sentence generator, and uncorrected true errors.
['Anthony S. Kroch', 'Donald Hindle']
ON THE LINGUISTIC CHARACTER OF NON-STANDARD INPUT