This paper describes the generation component of our MERCURY flight reservation conversational system. Generation makes use of the GENESIS-II generation server, which represents a signifi- cant redesign from its predecessor, GENESIS. While the main focus is on response generation, we also discuss a variety of other generation needs that are fulfilled by GENESIS-II. These include a paraphrase of the user query back into English and into a flattened electronic form, the paraphrase of the electronic form into a database query language, and the conversion of flight tables into HTML format.
Cite as: Seneff, S., Polifroni, J. (2000) Formal and natural language generation in the Mercury conversational system. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 2, 767-770, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-382
@inproceedings{seneff00b_icslp,
author={Stephanie Seneff and Joseph Polifroni},
title={{Formal and natural language generation in the Mercury conversational system}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 2, 767-770},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-382}
}