Special Topic: Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Dialogue Systems
Required Readings
- David DeVault, David Traum, and Ron Artstein, Making
Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems
In proceedings of The 9th SIGdial
Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2008), June,
2008.
- Report
on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual
Environments (GIVE-2) Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz,
Andrew Gargett, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna
Moore, Jon Oberlander, 6th International Natural Language
Generation Conference (INLG 2010).
- François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, June 2007.
Optional Readings
- Formal Grammars of English, chapter 12 of Jurafsky, Daniel, and
James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction
to Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, and
Computational Linguistics. 2nd edition. Prentice-Hall, 2009.
- Computer
Speech & Language Special issue on Spoken Language Generation
(particularly intro, Stent, and Oh & Rudnicky articles
- Textual
Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics Matthew
Stone , Bonnie Webber, Proceedings of INLG 1998, pages 178--187.
- Microplanning
with communicative intentions: the SPUD system. Matthew Stone,
Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha
Palmer. Computational Intelligence 19:4, pages 311-381, 2003.
- Nikolaos Engonopoulos and Alexander Koller Generating effective referring expressions using charts Sigdial/Siggen joint session 2014
- Jiwei Li, Will Monroe ,Tianlin Shi, Sėbastien Jean, Alan Ritter, Dan Jurafsky, Adversarial Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation
EMNLP 2017