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Required Readings

  1. A Framework for Annotating Information Structure in Discourse, Sasha Calhoun, Malvina Nissim, Mark Steedman and Jason Brenier, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky (ACL 2005)
  2. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Kepa Joseba Rodríguez, Stina Ericsson, Elena Karagjosova, Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation is an Information-State Based Dialogue System, EACL 2003: 227-234
  3. BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit Justine Cassell, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, in the Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001

Other Readings
  1. Hiyakumoto, L., Prevost, S., and Cassell, J., Semantic and Discourse Information for Text-to-Speech Intonation Proc. ACL Workshop on Concept-to-Speech Generation, Madrid, 1997.
  2. Hirschberg, J., Accent and Discourse Context: Assigning Pitch Accent in Synthetic Speech Proc. AAAI 90, pp. 952-957, 1990.
  3. Christine H. Nakatani, Jennifer Chu-Carroll Using dialogue representations for concept-to-speech generation in Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems Pages 48-53
  4. Scott Prevost.An information structural approach to spoken language generation. In Proceedings of the 34th ACL, Santa Cruz, pages 294–301, 1996.