3.4.8 The Generation Manager

It communicates with the Discourse Context Component and the Behavioural Agent.

It communicates with the Discourse Context Component and the Behavioural Agent. Based on their input it reasons about the specific content of the next system utterance.

The Speech Generation Component

It takes as input the output of the natural language generator. It generates spoken output.

The Surface Generation Component

It takes the output content specified by the Generation manager and provides the surface realisation for it.


Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Stephan Walter and Aljoscha Burchardt
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