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  <Title>Chinese Generation in a Spoken Dialogue Translation System</Title>
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6. Discussion and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In spoken language translation systems, one problem is the ill-formed input. How to tackle this problem robustly is very important. At the microplanning level, we design some general rules. The input is first to be matched with the sl~e&lt;:ific roles. If there is no rules matched, we access the gene.ral roles to Inalch with the input. In this way, although the inl)U! is somehow illformed, the output includes the main information of the input. And at the surface realization level, we make some relaxation on tests to improve the robuslness, l;,.g, oMigatory arguments may be missing in the utterance. This can be caused by ellipsis in sentences such as the utterances &amp;quot;{:\]{: ~ J~.&amp;quot; (stay for three days). We have to accept it as a sentence without the subject because they are acceptable in spoken Chinese and often appear in daily dialogues.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We arc planning to l:tuther increase the robustness of the system. And if possible, we also hope to adapt our generation system to other (lolnaills.</Paragraph>
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