Thoughts on the relevance of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft

http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/

The working draft itsself specifies an ECMAScript object format that is
used to represent input grammars that can be accepted by systems. I dont
think this is particularly relevant to DAWG as-is, but it references
another working group output, EMMA (http://www.w3.org/TR/EMMAreqs/,
http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/) which is a potential output format for SISR,
is ntended to include a query language, and seems very relevant to
DAWG at first glance.

They have concerns about RDF efficiency (and the lack of a query
language), so there are 3 distinct syntaxes for EMMA docuements, one
pure EMMA-schema XML, one mixed EMMA+RDF and one pure RDF.

Hopefully we can help with the last one by providing a query language for
the RDF documents and they suggest that the mixed XML+RDF documents can be
translated into pure RDF with an XSLT transform, though I couldn't find a
pointer to a transform document.

The native query language for EMMA is XPointer based, but it works over
thier XML schema only, not addressing the embedded RDF fragments.

- Steve