TAG-based Generation at DFKI

In the research lab Intelligent User Interfaces at DFKI Saarbrücken there have been and currently are several ongoing projects for developing NLG components under the scientific coordination of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster. A common kernel of each of the following projects consists in a syntactical generator based on tree adjoining grammars. Main emphasis was laid on efficient methods for incremental processing, microplanning, offline pre-computation of knowledge sources, content-to-speech generation and automatic self-corrections.

Generation for Verbmobil II (1/1997 - 9/2000)

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Staff Tilman Becker Wolfgang Finkler Anne Kilger Peter Poller

UNL: Text Generation for WWW-Applications (11/1996 - 12/1998)

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Staff Tilman Becker Peter Poller

PERFECTION: PERForming self-corrECTIONs during incremental generation of natural language (1990 - 1/1997)

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Staff Wolfgang Finkler

EFFENDI: Efficient Formulation of Dialog Contributions (6/1993 - 12/1996)

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Staff Wolfgang Finkler Peter Poller

Recent publications:

Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller: "Multilingual Summary Generation in a Speech-To-Speech Translation System for Multilingual Negotiation Dialogues", Proceedings of INLG 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.

Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez, Peter Poller: "An Extended Architecture for Robust Generation", Proceedings of INLG 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.

Tilman Becker, Patrice Lopez: "Adapting HPSG-to-TAG Compilation to Wide-Coverage Grammars", Proceedings of TAG+5, May 2000, Paris, France.

Anne Kilger, Peter Poller: "CDL-TAG: A grammar formalism for flexible and efficient syntactic generation", Proceedings of TAG+5, May 2000, Paris, France.

Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller: "Towards Multilingual Protocol Generation For Spontaneous Speech Dialogues", Proceedings of INLGW 98, Niagara-on-the-lake, Canada. PostScript File

Tilman Becker: "Fully Lexicalized Head-Driven Syntactic Generation", Proceedings of INLGW 98, Niagara-on-the-lake, Canada. PostScript File

Tilman Becker, Wolfgang Finkler, Anne Kilger and Peter Poller: "An Efficient Kernel for Multilingual Generation in Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Translation", Proceedings of COLING-ACL 98, Montreal, Canada. PostScript File

Last update: July 4, 2000