Abstract:
This paper discusses the various ways in which the generation of an
utterance requires modeling of the linguistic context of the utterance.
To illustrate the
role of context modeling in monologue generation, the so-called Dial-Your-Disc
(DYD) system is presented, which supports browsing through a large
database of musical information and generates a spoken monologue once
a musical composition has been selected. The paper devotes special attention
to the
differences between the 'practical' models of context used in language
generation system, on the one hand, and a number of 'theoretical' models
of context
that have been proposed in theoretical linguistics and (declarative)
artificial intelligence, in the other.
In: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, February
4-6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ed., pp. 75-87.
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