Genesis-ii: A language generation module for conversational systems

Language generation is a fundamental component of dialogue systems. Over the past year, we have developed a new generation module for conversational systems developed at MIT using the Galaxy architecture. In this thesis, we discuss how our system, Genesis-II, bridges non-linguistic and linguistic generation with an original framework that is simple, yet pow-erful. We have created a set of mechanisms that allow domain experts to rapidly develop template-like rules for simple domains, while giving them the power to carefully construct linguistic rules for complex domains. In particular, Genesis-II provides domain experts with exible tools for overcoming diÆcult linguistic challenges, like word-sense disambigua-tion and wh-movement. Throughout the thesis, we shall illustrate the Genesis-II framewor