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Among other things, a natural language generator which is embedded in a dialog system should take the user’s input into account. In this way, the output generated will be better adapted to the user’s needs. Consequently, the generator and the other components of the system should share knowledge bases whenever possible. In this chapter, preliminary considerations pertaining to the generation component of XTRA — a natural language access system to expert systems — are presented. The generator is fully integrated into the system and shares its knowledge bases. The advantage of this structure is demonstrated for the generation of certain referring expressions. Apart from linguistic reference — e.g. pro-words — extralinguistic pointing gestures can be employed both by the user and the XTRA system as well. Finally, the integration of pointing gestures in the generation component is discussed.
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Reithinger, N. (1987). Generating Referring Expressions and Pointing Gestures. In: Kempen, G. (eds) Natural Language Generation. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_6
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