O-Plan: the open planning architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Pitch accent in context: predicting intonational prominence from text
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on natural language processing
Using argumentation to control lexical choice: a functional unification implementation
Using argumentation to control lexical choice: a functional unification implementation
A semantics of contrast and information structure for specifying intonation in spoken language generation
Building natural language generation systems
Building natural language generation systems
The syntactic process
Ambiguity management in natural language generation
Ambiguity management in natural language generation
From data to speech: a general approach
Natural Language Engineering
Forest-based statistical sentence generation
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Two-level, many-paths generation
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th 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
Producing contextually appropriate intonation in an information-state based dialogue system
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Darpa Communicator spoken dialogue systems
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Coupling CCG and hybrid logic dependency semantics
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Factored language models and generalized parallel backoff
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
A strategy for generating evaluative arguments
INLG '00 Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14
Real versus Template-Based Natural Language Generation: A False Opposition?
Computational Linguistics
Generating and evaluating evaluative arguments
Artificial Intelligence
Developing a flexible spoken dialog system using simulation
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
Multisyn: Open-domain unit selection for the Festival speech synthesis system
Speech Communication
A framework for annotating information structure in discourse
CorpusAnno '05 Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky
Techniques for text planning with XSLT
NLPXML '04 Proceeedings of the Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004): RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology
An empirical study of the influence of user tailoring on evaluative argument effectiveness
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
CCG chart realization from disjunctive inputs
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
High efficiency realization for a wide-coverage unification grammar
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Computer Speech and Language
Ontology based interlingua translation
CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part II
A strategy for information presentation in spoken dialog systems
Computational Linguistics
Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey
Computational Linguistics
Building a generator for Italian sign language
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
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Generating responses that take user preferences into account requires adaptation at all levels of the generation process. This article describes a multi-level approach to presenting user-tailored information in spoken dialogues which brings together for the first time multi-attribute decision models, strategic content planning, surface realization that incorporates prosody prediction, and unit selection synthesis that takes the resulting prosodic structure into account. The system selects the most important options to mention and the attributes that are most relevant to choosing between them, based on the user model. Multiple options are selected when each offers a compelling trade-off. To convey these trade-offs, the system employs a novel presentation strategy which straightforwardly lends itself to the determination of information structure, as well as the contents of referring expressions. During surface realization, the prosodic structure is derived from the information structure using Combinatory Categorial Grammar in a way that allows phrase boundaries to be determined in a flexible, data-driven fashion. This approach to choosing pitch accents and edge tones is shown to yield prosodic structures with significantly higher acceptability than baseline prosody prediction models in an expert evaluation. These prosodic structures are then shown to enable perceptibly more natural synthesis using a unit selection voice that aims to produce the target tunes, in comparison to two baseline synthetic voices. An expert evaluation and f0 analysis confirm the superiority of the generator-driven intonation and its contribution to listeners' ratings.