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The paper addresses the issue of how to increase adaptivity in response generation for a spoken dialogue system. Realization strategies for dialogue responses depend on communicative confidence levels and interaction management goals. We first describe a Java/XML-based generator which produces different realizations of system responses based on agendas specified by the dialogue manager. We then discuss how greater adaptivity can be achieved by using a set of distinct generator agents, each of which is specialized in its realization strategy (e.g. highly elliptical or highly explicit). This allows a simpler design of each generator agent, while increasing the overall system adaptivity to meet the requirements for flexible cooperation in incremental and immediate interactive situations.
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Jokinen, K., Wilcock, G. (2003). Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System. In: van Kuppevelt, J., Smith, R.W. (eds) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0019-2_10
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