Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems

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Srinivas Bangalore Edited by Amanda StentCambridge University PressEdition: 1st Edition, 4/30/2014EAN 9781107010024, ISBN10: 1107010020Hardcover, 376 pages, 25.4 x 18.1 x 2 cmLangu age: EnglishAn informative and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in natural language generation (NLG) for interactive systems, this guide serves to introduce graduate students and new researchers to the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, while inspiring them with ideas for future research. Detailing the techniques and challenges of NLG for interactive applications, it focuses on the research into systems that model collaborativity and uncertainty, are capable of being scaled incrementally, and can engage with the user effectively. A range of real-world case studies is also included. The book and the accompanying website feature a comprehensive bibliography, and refer the reader to corpora, data, software and other resources for pursuing research on natural language generation and interactive systems, including dialog systems, multimodal interfaces and assistive technologies. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in computational linguistics, natural language processing and related fields.1. Communicative intentions and natural language generation Nate Blaylock2. Pursuing and demonstrating understanding in dialogue David DeVault and Matthew Stone3. Dialogue and compound contributions Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Eleni Gregoromichelaki4. Eye tracking for the online evaluation of prosody in speech synthesis Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Kiwako Ito and Shari R. Speer5. Referability Kees van Deemter6. Referring expression generation in interactiona graph-based perspective Emiel Krahmer, Martijn Goudbeek and Mariet Theune7. Reinforcement learning approaches to natural language generation in interactive systems Oliver Lemony, Srini Janarthanam and Verena Rieser8. A joint learning approach for situated language generation Nina Dethlefs and Heriberto Cuayáhuitl9. Data-driven methods for linguistic style control Francois Mairesse10. Integration of cultural factors into the behavioural models of virtual characters Birgit Endrass and Elisabeth Andre11. Natural language generation for augmented and assistive technologies Nava Tintarev, Ehud Reiter and Annalu Waller12. Comparative evaluation and shared tasks for NLG in interactive systems Anja Belz and Helen Hastie. Show more