GENESIS-II: a versatile system for language generation in conversational system applications
Lauren M. Baptist, Stephanie Seneff · 2000
Language generation is a fundamental component of dialogue systems. Over the past year, we have developed a new generation module for conversational systems developed at MIT using the GALAXY architecture. Our generator, which we call GENESIS- II, resolves many of the shortcomings of its predecessor, GENE- SIS.GENESIS-II makes it substantially easier for users to specify generation, and the generation output is often of a higher quality. In particular, GENESIS-II has improved the ease and quality of generation in foreign languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish) and non-traditional languages (SQL, HTML, speech waveforms) . In this paper, we focus on the more advanced features of our system. 1. Introduction Language generation can be defined as the process of transforming a meaning representation into a target string. In conversational systems, this most obviously means preparing a wellformed string to be spoken to the user, as a response to a question. However, a versatile generation mod...