Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue
Papers from 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium
Reva Freedman and Charles Callaway, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-03-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Preface / vii
Reva Freedman and Charles Callaway
Syntactic and Semantic Input to Prosodic Markup in CommandTalk / 1
Elizabeth Owen Bratt and John Dowding
Do We Need Deep Generation of Disfluent Dialogue? / 6
Charles B. Callaway
A New Buggy Rule and Template-Template Based Tutorial Dialogue System / 12
Liang Chen and Naoyuki Tokuda
Development and Evaluation of NL Interfaces in a Small Shop / 15
Barbara Di Eugenio, Susan Haller, and Michael Glass
Generating Canonical Examples using Candidate Words / 23
John Dowding, Gregory Aist, Beth Ann Hockey, and Elizabeth Owen Bratt
Clarification in Spoken Dialogue Systems / 28
Malte Gabsdil
Dialogue Generation in an Assistive Conversation Skills Training System for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease / 36
Nancy L. Green and Boyd Davis
Incremental Generation of Multimodal Route Instructions / 44
Christopher Habel
Text Generation Methods for Dialog Systems / 52
Helmut Horacek
Fully Corpus-Based Natural Lanuage Dialogue System / 55
Nobuo Inui, Takuya Koiso, Junpei Nakamura, and Yoshiyuki Kotani
Feature Sharing in the Generation and Interpretation of Nominals in Dialogue / 58
Pamela W. Jordan
Extended Explanations as Student Models for Guiding Tutorial Dialogue / 65
Pamela W. Jordan, Maxim Makatchev, and Umarani Pappuswamy
A Dialogue-Based Knowledge Authoring System for Text Generation / 71
Alistair Knott and Nick Wright
Generating Feedback and Sequencing Moves in a Dialogue System / 79
Staffan Larsson
Generation of Collaborative Spoken Dialogue Contributions in Dynamic Task Environments / 85
Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Randolph Gullett, Alexis Battle, Laura Hiatt, and Stanley Peters
Language Understanding and Generation in Chinese Spoken Dialogue Systems / 91
Bei Liu, LiMin Du, ZhiWei Fang, and XianFang Wang
The Use of Analogies in Human Tutoring Dialogues / 94
Evelyn Lulis and Martha Evens
Discourse Patterns In Why/AutoTutor / 97
Eric C. Mathews, G. Tanner Jackson, Arthur C. Graesser, Natalie K. Person, and the Tutoring Research Group
Producing Dialog at MERL: Problems in Generation Engineering / 104
David D. McDonald
Statistical Models for Organizing Semantic Options in Knowledge Editing Interfaces / 112
Jill Nickerson
Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue / 118
Paul Piwek and Kees van Deemter
Initiative and Clarification in Web-Based Surveys / 125
Michael F. Schober, Frederick G. Conrad, Patrick Ehlen, Laura H. Lind, and Tania Coiner
Specifying Generation of Referring Expressions by Example / 133
Matthew Stone
From Monologue to Dialogue: Natural Language Generation in OVIS / 141
Mariët Theune
NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment / 151
David Traum, Michael Fleischman, and Ed Hovy
Generation Models for Spoken Dialogues / 159
Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen
A Method for Comparing Fluency Measures and Its Application to ITS Natural Language Generation / 166
Roy Wilson
Workshop Organization and Contents
Reva Freedman and Charles Callaway
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