We present an Augmented Template-Based approach to text realization that addresses the requirements of real-time, interactive systems such as a dialog system or an intelligent tutoring system. Template-based approaches are easier to implement and use than traditional approaches to text realization. They can also generate texts more quickly. However traditional template-based approaches with rigid templates are inflexible and difficult to reuse. Our approach augments traditional template-based approaches by adding several types of declarative control expressions and an attribute grammar-based mechanism for processing missing or inconsistent slot fillers. Therefore, augmented templates can be made more general than traditional ones, yielding templates that are more flexible and reusable across applications.
An Augmented Template-Based approach is proposed in REF as a means of yielding templates that should prove more flexible and reusable.
An augmented template-based approach to text realization
Nat. Lang. Eng.
Nat. Lang. Eng.
Computer Science