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<Paper uid="W05-1604">
  <Title>Real-Time Stochastic Language Generation for Dialogue Systems</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes Acorn, a sentence planner and surface realizer for dialogue systems. Improvements to previous stochastic word-forest based approaches are described, countering recent criticism of this class of algorithms for their slow speed.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> An evaluation of the approach with semantic input shows runtimes of a fraction of a second and presents results that suggest it is also portable across domains.</Paragraph>
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