The text source for the terminology hyperlexicon provides a taxonomies with a greater degree of granularity than that outlined so far, based on a subtree of the table of contents of the Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems. For convenience in representation, the taxonomy is divided into the sub-taxonomies outlined in the Figures 3 (System Design), 4 (Corpus Design, 5 (Lexicon Development), 6 (Language Models), 7 (Physical Characterisation), 8 (Assessment methodology), 9 (Recogniser assessment), 10 (Speaker Verification assessment), 11 (Synthesis assessment), and 12 (Interactive Dialogue System Assessment).
The structure is modified from the basic text organisation of the Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems, and is intended to represent, in each case, a first starting point for a pragmatic applications orientated basic system design taxonomy.
Taken together, the sub-taxonomies constitute a comprehensive taxonomic hierarchy of fine granularity; the sub-taxonomies have been curtailed at a coarse-grained level, but as the textual structure of the Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems shows, much finer grain is available. In later versions of the work on spoken language terminology, this will be used for graphically oriented access to term definitions.