The psychologist said quickly, “Dialogue descriptions modulate reading speed!”

Theories of reading should predict reading speed.

Reading speed matters in most real-world contexts, and it is a robust and easy aspect of reading to measure. Theories of reading should account for speed.

Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue

We describe an approach to presenting information in spoken dialogues that for the first time brings together multi-attribute decision models, strategic content planning, state-of-the-art dialogue management, and realization which incorporates prosodic features. The system selects the most important subset of available options to mention and the attributes that are most relevant to choosing bet...

The Role of Visual Processing Speed in Reading Speed Development

A steady increase in reading speed is the hallmark of normal reading acquisition. However, little is known of the influence of visual attention capacity on children's reading speed. The number of distinct visual elements that can be simultaneously processed at a glance (dubbed the visual attention span), predicts single-word reading speed in both normal reading and dyslexic children. However, t...

Perspectives and the Referential Use of Definite Descriptions in Dialogue

XML-Based Dialogue Descriptions in the GEMINI Project

GEMINI (Generic Environment for Multilingual Interactive Natural Interfaces) is an EC funded research project. The goal of GEMINI is to provide a flexible platform for the generation of dialogue applications, able to produce multi-modal and multilingual dialogue interfaces to databases with a minimum of human effort. This platform consists of a toolset supporting all steps of application genera...