Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

Decoding methods in neural language generation: a survey

S Zarrieß, H Voigt, S Schüz - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neural encoder-decoder models for language generation can be trained to predict words
directly from linguistic or non-linguistic inputs. When generating with these so-called end-to …

Sequence-to-sequence generation for spoken dialogue via deep syntax trees and strings

O Dušek, F Jurčíček - arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05491, 2016 - arxiv.org
We present a natural language generator based on the sequence-to-sequence approach
that can be trained to produce natural language strings as well as deep syntax dependency …

Automatic generation of weather forecast texts using comprehensive probabilistic generation-space models

A Belz - Natural Language Engineering, 2008 - cambridge.org
Two important recent trends in natural language generation are (i) probabilistic techniques
and (ii) comprehensive approaches that move away from traditional strictly modular and …

[PDF][PDF] PERSONAGE: Personality generation for dialogue

F Mairesse, M Walker - Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of …, 2007 - aclanthology.org
Over the last fifty years, the “Big Five” model of personality traits has become a standard in
psychology, and research has systematically documented correlations between a wide …

Controlling user perceptions of linguistic style: Trainable generation of personality traits

F Mairesse, MA Walker - Computational Linguistics, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
Recent work in natural language generation has begun to take linguistic variation into
account, developing algorithms that are capable of modifying the system's linguistic style …

[PDF][PDF] Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning

F Mairesse, M Gasic, F Jurcicek, S Keizer… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - aclanthology.org
Most previous work on trainable language generation has focused on two paradigms:(a)
using a statistical model to rank a set of generated utterances, or (b) using statistics to inform …

Neural personalized response generation as domain adaptation

WN Zhang, Q Zhu, Y Wang, Y Zhao, T Liu - World Wide Web, 2019 - Springer
One of the most crucial problem on training personalized response generation models for
conversational robots is the lack of large scale personal conversation data. To address the …

Towards personality-based user adaptation: psychologically informed stylistic language generation

F Mairesse, MA Walker - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2010 - Springer
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by
which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the …

Stochastic language generation in dialogue using factored language models

F Mairesse, S Young - Computational Linguistics, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
Most previous work on trainable language generation has focused on two paradigms:(a)
using a generation decisions of an existing generator. Both approaches rely on the …