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Multilingual summary generation in a speech-to-speech translation system for multilingual dialogues

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Jan Alexandersson,

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INLG '00: Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14

Pages 148 - 155

https://doi.org/10.3115/1118253.1118274

Published: 12 June 2000 Publication History

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This paper describes a novel functionality of the VERBMOBIL system, a large scale translation system designed for spontaneously spoken multilingual negotiation dialogues. The task is the on-demand generation of dialogue scripts and result summaries of dialogues. We focus on summary generation and show how the relevant data are selected from the dialogue memory and how they are packed into an appropriate abstract representation. Finally, we demonstrate how the existing generation module of VERBMOBIL was extended to produce multilingual and result summaries from these representations.

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INLG '00: Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14

June 2000

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ISBN:9659029608

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Ben Gurion University, Israel

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Wan SMcKeown K(2004)Generating overview summaries of ongoing email thread discussionsProceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics10.3115/1220355.1220434(549-es)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1220355.1220434
Becker TKilger ALopez PPoller PElhadad M(2000)An extended architecture for robust generationProceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 1410.3115/1118253.1118263(63-68)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1118253.1118263
Reithinger NKipp MEngel RAlexandersson JIida H(2000)Summarizing multilingual spoken negotiation dialoguesProceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/1075218.1075258(310-317)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1075218.1075258

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