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We present the C-STAR Italian Generator (XIG), a system for generating Italian text from the interlingua content representation (Interchange Format) adopted within the C-STAR II speech to speech translation project. The constraints of the application scenario led us to follow a Mixed Representions approach to text generation and to adopt for the sentence planner an architecture based on cascades of default rules.
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Pianta, E., Tovena, L.M. (2000). XIG: Generating from Interchange Format using Mixed Representations. In: Lamma, E., Mello, P. (eds) AI*IA 99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46238-4_21
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