TRIPS Component: Surface Generation

The Surface Generation agent is responsible for turning deep speech acts it receives from the Generation Manager into surface forms. This includes both utterances to be sent to Speech Output as well as display commands for the GUI Output.

Message Traffic

• to/from Reference
• to/from Discourse Context
• to/from Generation Manager
• to GUI Output
• to Speech Synthesis

Current Researchers

• Amanda Stent

Relevant Papers

• A. Stent, "Content planning and generation in continuous-speech spoken dialog systems", Proceedings of the KI'99 workshop, "May I Speak Freely?", September, 1999. compressed postscript