Context modeling and the generation of spoken discourse

نویسندگان

  • Kees van Deemter
  • Jan Odijk
چکیده

This paper presents the Dial-Your-Disc (dyd) system, an interactive system that supports browsing through a large database of musical information and generates a spoken monologue once a musical composition has been selected. The paper focuses on the generation of spoken monologues and, more speciically, on the various ways in which the generation of an utterance at a given point in the monologue requires modeling of the linguistic context of the utterance. Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird das Dial-Your-Disc (dyd) System vorgestellt. Dieses interaktive System unterst} utzt den Benutzer beim Durchsuchen einer grossen Datenbank mit Informationen } uber Musikkompositionen. Nach Auswahl einer Komposition erzeugt das System einen gesprochenen Monolog. Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich auf die Erzeugung gesprochener Monologe. Insbeson-dere wird besprochen, in welcher Weise die Erzeugung einer } Ausserung je nach ihrer Position im Monolog es erfordert, den linguistischen Kontext der } Ausserung zu modellieren. R esum e Cet article pr esente le syst eme DYD (Dial-Your-Disc/Choisissez votre disque), qui comprend entre autres la fonction de recherche dans une grande base de donn ees, et celle de g en eration d'un monologue sous forme vocale, une fois que l'oeuvre musicale a et e s electionn ee. L'article pr esente en d etail la g en eration des monologues, avec un accent particulier sur la n ecessit e de recourir au contexte linguistique de l' enonc e pour eeectuer dii eremment la g en eration en fonction de la position courante dans le monologue.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Speech Communication

دوره 21  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1997