... Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, pages 238–245,Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009.c2009 Association for Computational LinguisticsEffects of Word Confusion ... fields with par-ticular emphasis on exploiting the ASR output be-yond the 1-best hypothesis. We demonstrate thatby parsing word confusion networks, the accuracy of the query parser can be improved. ... number of reasons.First, as can be expected the ASR 1-best out-put is typically error-prone especially when a userquery originates from a noisy environment. How-ever, ASR word confusion networks...