Abstract
This paper discusses the utterance generation module of a spoken dialogue system for transactions. Transactions are interesting because they involve obligations of both parties: the system should provide all relevant information; the user should feel committed to the transaction once it has been concluded. Utterance generation plays a major role in this. The utterance generation module works with prosodically annotated utterance templates. An appropriate template for a given dialogue act is selected by the following parameters: utterance type, body of the template, given information, wanted and new information. Templates respect rules of accenting and deaccenting.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 |
Editors | Robert H. Mannell, Jordi Robert-Ribes |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
Publisher | Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) |
Pages | 1143-1146 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 1998 |
Event | 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 30 Nov 1998 → 4 Dec 1998 Conference number: 5 |
Conference
Conference | 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 |
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Abbreviated title | ICSLP |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Sydney |
Period | 30/11/98 → 4/12/98 |