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  <Title>Overgeneration and ranking for spoken dialogue systems</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We describe an implemented generator for a spoken dialogue system that follows the 'overgeneration and ranking' approach. We find that overgeneration based on bottom-up chart generation is well-suited to a) model phenomena such as alignment and variation in dialogue, and b) address robustness issues in the face of imperfect generation input. We report evaluation results of a first user study involving</Paragraph>
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