Spoken dialogue systems allow users to interact with computer-based applications such as
databases and expert systems by using natural spoken language. The origins of spoken …

In this article, we give an overview of Natural Language Generation (NLG) from an applied
system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when NLG techniques …

The goal of the research described in this paper is to develop an application-independent
presentation tool that automatically designs effective graphical presentations (such as bar …

Adaptive hypermedia is a new direction of research within the area of adaptive and user
model-based interfaces. Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems build a model of the individual …

How do we decide how to represent an intelligent system in its interface, and how do we
decide how the interface represents information about the world and about its own workings …

The first systematic, corpus-based and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and
analysis of multimodal documents. Drawing on academic research and the experience of …

The knowledge-based graphics component we use is based on IBIS (Intent-Based
Illustration System)[23]. IBIS is a rule-based system that designs illustrations, a term we use …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

This article gives a comprehensive overview of techniques for personalised hypermedia
presentation. It describes the data about the computer user, the computer usage and the …

We discuss external and internal graphical and linguistic representational systems. We
argue that a cognitive theory of peoples' reasoning performance must account for (a) the …