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Generating Multimedia Presentations from Plain Text to Screen Play

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Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation

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Piwek, P., Power, R., Scott, D., Van Deemter, K. (2005). Generating Multimedia Presentations from Plain Text to Screen Play. In: Stock, O., Zancanaro, M. (eds) Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3051-7_10

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