Automatic generation of multi-modal dialogue from text based on discourse structure analysis

ICSC 2007 International Conference on Semantic Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 27-34

  Prendinger, Helmut ^a   Piwek, Paul ^b   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-MODAL; NOVEL METHODS; PERSONALIZATION; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; QUESTION-ANSWERING; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; VIRTUAL AGENTS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 47749133810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOSC.2007.4338329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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