Discourse strategies for generating natural-language text
Artificial Intelligence
Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
Using focus to generate complex and simple sentences
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The intonational structuring of discourse
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Limited attention and discourse structure
Computational Linguistics
Simulation of face-to-face interaction
AVI '96 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
Multimodal communication between synthetic agents
AVI '98 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Language generation for multimedia healthcare briefings
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Learning intonation rules for Concept to Speech generation
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
An information structural approach to spoken language generation
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Information based intonation synthesis
HLT '94 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
Using dialogue representations for concept-to-speech generation
ANLP/NAACL-ConvSyst '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Conversational systems - Volume 3
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
Using dialogue representations for concept-to-speech generation
ConversationalSys '00 Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems
Accent and discourse context: assigning pitch accent in synthetic speech
AAAI'90 Proceedings of the eighth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Evaluating salience metrics for the context-adequate realization of discourse referents
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
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Speakers convey much of the information hearers use to interpret discourse by varying prosodic features such as PHRASING, PITCH ACCENT placement, TUNE, and PITCH RANGE. The ability to emulate such variation is crucial to effective (synthetic) speech generation. While text-to-speech synthesis must rely primarily upon structural information to determine appropriate intonational features, speech synthesized from an abstract representation of the message to be conveyed may employ much richer sources. The implementation of an intonation assignment component for Direction Assistance, a program which generates spoken directions, provides a first approximation of how recent models of discourse structure can be used to control intonational variation in ways that build upon recent research in intonational meaning. The implementation further suggests ways in which these discourse models might be augmented to permit the assignment of appropriate intonational features.