... hesitations (urn) and speech re- pairs (I mean) and give meta-comments on the ut- terance (right). specify how speech repairs should be handled by the parser. (Hindle, 1983) and (Bear et al., ... the input, and this view is readily imple- mentable. The repair metarule, when given the hypo- thetical start and end of a reparandum (say from a language model such as (Heeman and Allen, ... schubert@cs, rochester, edu Abstract This paper presents a grammatical and pro- cessing framework for handling the repairs, hesitations, and other interruptions in nat- ural human dialog. The proposed...