The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
We describe a corpus-based approach to natural language generation (NLG). The approach has been implemented as a component of a spoken dialog system and a series of evaluations we...
When building natural language generation applications it is desireable to have the possibility of assembling modules that use different techniques for each one of the specific g...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
We present Xenon, a natural language generation system capable of distinguishing between nearsynonyms. It integrates a near-synonym choice module with an existing sentence realiza...