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Formal and natural language generation in the Mercury conversational system

Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni
2000 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)   unpublished

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This paper describes the generation component of our MERCURY flight reservation conversational system. Generation makes use of the GENESIS-II generation server, which represents a significant redesign from its predecessor, GENESIS. While the main focus is on response generation, we also discuss a variety of other generation needs that are fulfilled by GENESIS-II. These include a paraphrase of the user query back into English and into a flattened electronic form, the paraphrase of the electronic
more » ... form into a database query language, and the conversion of flight tables into HTML format.
doi:10.21437/icslp.2000-382 fatcat:jra7puih2vf4fldtlrvvg6x5ai
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Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni. "Formal and natural language generation in the Mercury conversational system." 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000) (2000)