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A Formal Model of Dictionary Structure and Content
Laurent Romary, Nancy Ide, Adam Kilgarriff
We show that a general model of lexical information conforms to an abstract model that reflects the hierarchy of information found in a typical dictionary entry. We show that this…
Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue
Paul Piwek, Kees van Deemter
This paper explains why scripted dialogue shares some crucial properties with discourse. In particular, when scripted dialogues are generated by a Natural Language Generation syste…
Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies
Paul Piwek, Kees van Deemter
The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves…
A Flexible Pragmatics-driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
Paul Piwek
This paper describes the NECA MNLG; a fully implemented Multimodal Natural Language Generation module. The MNLG is deployed as part of the NECA system which generates dialogues bet…