Stochastic Language Generation in a Dialogue System: Toward a Domain Independent Generator
Nathanael Chambers, James F. Allen · 2004
This paper describes Acorn, a sentence planner and surface realizer for dialogue systems. Improvements to previous stochastic word-forest based approaches are described, countering recent criticism of this class of algorithms for their slow speed. An evaluation of the approach with semantic input shows runtimes of a fraction of a second and presents results that suggest it is also portable across domains. 1