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CSL
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Stochastic natural language generation for spoken dialog systems
We describe a corpus-based approach to natural language generation (NLG). The approach has been implemented as a component of a spoken dialog system and a series of evaluations we...
Alice Oh, Alexander I. Rudnicky
ACL
1990
13 years 6 months ago
Automatically Extracting and Representing Collocations for Language Generation
Collocational knowledge is necessary for language generation. The problem is that collocations come in a large variety of forms. They can involve two, three or more words, these w...
Frank A. Smadja, Kathleen McKeown
ANLP
1997
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13 years 6 months ago
Language Generation for Multimedia Healthcare Briefings
This paper identifies issues for language generation that arose in developing a multimedia interface to healthcare data that includes coordinated speech, text and graphics. In ord...
Kathleen McKeown, Desmond A. Jordan, Shimei Pan, J...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Intonation Rules for Concept to Speech Generation
In this paper, we report on an effort to provide a general-purpose spoken language generation tool for Concept-to-Speech (CTS) applications by extending a widely used text generat...
Shimei Pan, Kathleen McKeown
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating American Sign Language generation through the participation of native ASL signers
We discuss important factors in the design of evaluation studies for systems that generate animations of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences. In particular, we outline how some...
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu, Jan M. Al...
INLG
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech
Ambiguity in the output is a concern for NLG in general. This paper considers the case of structural ambiguity in spoken language generation. We present an algorithm which inserts ...
Chris Mellish