Discourse strategies for generating natural-language text
Artificial Intelligence
Generating context-sensitive responses to object-related misconceptions
Artificial Intelligence
Getting the message across in RST-based text generation
Current research in natural language generation
Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse
Computational Linguistics
A semantics of contrast and information structure for specifying intonation in spoken language generation
Improvising linguistic style: social and affective bases for agent personality
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Building natural language generation systems
Building natural language generation systems
The automated design of believable dialogues for animated presentation teams
Embodied conversational agents
Natural Language Processing and User Modeling: Synergies and Limitations
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Squibs and discussions: human variation and lexical choice
Computational Linguistics - Summarization
Discriminative Reranking for Natural Language Parsing
ICML '00 Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
D-LTAG System: Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Planning text for advisory dialogues: capturing intentional and rhetorical information
Computational Linguistics
An empirical study on the generation of anaphora in Chinese
Computational Linguistics
Practical issues in automatic documentation generation
ANLC '94 Proceedings of the fourth conference on Applied natural language processing
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
A fast and portable realizer for text generation systems
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Learning features that predict cue usage
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Generation that exploits corpus-based statistical knowledge
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A centering approach to pronouns
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Response generation in collaborative negotiation
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Exploiting a probabilistic hierarchical model for generation
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Discourse relations: a structural and presuppositional account using lexicalised TAG
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
A flexible pragmatics-driven language generator for animated agents
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
Generation of VP ellipsis: a corpus-based approach
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Evaluating a trainable sentence planner for a spoken dialogue system
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
MATCH: an architecture for multimodal dialogue systems
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Probabilistic text structuring: experiments with sentence ordering
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
A strategy for generating evaluative arguments
INLG '00 Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14
Bootstrapping lexical choice via multiple-sequence alignment
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
Statistical acquisition of content selection rules for natural language generation
EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
Generating and evaluating evaluative arguments
Artificial Intelligence
Optimization in multimodal interpretation
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Trainable sentence planning for complex information presentation in spoken dialog systems
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
User expertise modelling and adaptivity in a speech-based e-mail system
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Learning to say it well: reranking realizations by predicted synthesis quality
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards terascale knowledge acquisition
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
The Pyramid Method: Incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Joint prosody prediction and unit selection for concatenative speech synthesis
ICASSP '01 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 200. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Computational modelling of structural priming in dialogue
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Acquiring correct knowledge for natural language generation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Learning content selection rules for generating object descriptions in dialogue
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Cue phrase classification using machine learning
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Inferring strategies for sentence ordering in multidocument news summarization
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Database-text alignment via structured multilabel classification
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Customization in a unified framework for summarizing medical literature
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Individuality and alignment in generated dialogues
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Using distributional similarity to identify individual verb choice
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Building up rhetorical structure trees
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
From local to global coherence: a bottom-up approach to text planning
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Natural language generation as planning under uncertainty for spoken dialogue systems
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Learning contrastive connectives in sentence realization ranking
SIGdial '08 Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Evaluating automatic extraction of rules for sentence plan construction
SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Adaptive expressiveness: virtual conversational agents that can align to their interaction partner
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Towards personality-based user adaptation: psychologically informed stylistic language generation
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Optimising information presentation for spoken dialogue systems
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Natural language generation as planning under uncertainty for spoken dialogue systems
Empirical methods in natural language generation
Controlling user perceptions of linguistic style: Trainable generation of personality traits
Computational Linguistics
Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey
Computational Linguistics
SIGDIAL '11 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Facilitating mental modeling in collaborative human-robot interaction through adverbial cues
SIGDIAL '11 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Perceived or not perceived: film character models for expressive NLG
ICIDS'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
Adaptive information presentation for spoken dialogue systems: evaluation with human subjects
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Discourse structure and language technology
Natural Language Engineering
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One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the need for the generator to adapt to many features of the dialogue domain, user population, and dialogue context. A promising approach is trainable generation, which uses general-purpose linguistic knowledge that is automatically adapted to the features of interest, such as the application domain, individual user, or user group. In this paper we present and evaluate a trainable sentence planner for providing restaurant information in the MATCH dialogue system. We show that trainable sentence planning can produce complex information presentations whose quality is comparable to the output of a template-based generator tuned to this domain. We also show that our method easily supports adapting the sentence planner to individuals, and that the individualized sentence planners generally perform better than models trained and tested on a population of individuals. Previous work has documented and utilized individual preferences for content selection, but to our knowledge, these results provide the first demonstration of individual preferences for sentence planning operations, affecting the content order, discourse structure and sentence structure of system responses. Finally, we evaluate the contribution of different feature sets, and show that, in our application, n-gram features often do as well as features based on higher-level linguistic representations.