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<Paper uid="P96-1039">
  <Title>An Information Structural Approach to Spoken Language Generation</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presents an architecture for the generation of spoken monologues with contextually appropriate intonation. A two-tiered information structure representation is used in the high-level content planning and sentence planning stages of generation to produce efficient, coherent speech that makes certain discourse relationships, such as explicit contrasts, appropriately salient.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The system is able to produce appropriate intonational patterns that cannot be generated by other systems which rely solely on word class and given/new distinctions.</Paragraph>
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