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1 INDEX Adaptive. Presentations Hypermedia Affective Presentation Markup Language (APML) 19 Aggregation 186 Animated Agent 19 Auditory. Assistive devices 313. Perception 310 Authoring tool 186, 145 BDI 16 BEETLE Project 242, Behavior modelling Believable. Agent 3. Virtual Humans 284 Binary space partitioning (BSP) tree Body movements Cinematic techniques Coding schemes Cognitive Load Theory Coherence 101 Cohesion 102 Collaborations Collaborative planning 291 Communicative Repertoire 7-9 Comparisons Constraints Content. determination Selection 183. delivery Culture Deictic signals Dialogue 220. Goals Obligations Trees Discourse structure Document production 145 Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) 3,47,51-52,

2 342 INDEX Emotions 9-11, and goals 9-10 triggering Gap filling GRETA Talking Head 15 Haptic Feedback Image transformations IMAGEN Project 119 Improved location awareness 115 Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 161 Label placement 270 Layout generation Learning disabilities 308, Lexicalisation Linguistic. Focus 302,. Style , Location sensitivity 76 Macronodes formalism 100 Magic Lounge Project 133 MagiCster Project 16 Microplanning 61-62,183 Mission Rehearsal Exercise project 284 Mobile navigation systems M-PIRO Project 103,179 Multilinguality Multimedia presentation planning Multimodal. corpora 312. input 35-37,. parsing Narrative planning Natural Language Dialogue Natural Language Generation (NLG) 52, , , of examples of referring expressions Neurorehabilitation Nonverbal signals Norms 12, 13 PEACH Project 96 Personal navigation systems 72 Personality 11 Pictures. and wording 219

3 . and meaning and style Planning document structure Position constraints 264 Positional stability Priority constraints 264 Prosodic models 201 PUPPET Project 27 REAL Project 71 Realisation Representational signals Resource-adaptated navigation 76 Response generation Revision Route descriptions Self-explanation Semantic-based Translation of Graphics Size constraints 264 Sonification Speech and hand gestures Staging Project 27 State hysteresis 273 Story Style Surface realization 183 Temporal continuity 272 Transparency constraints 264 Turn taking Tutorial dialogue Tutoring systems Virtual. Humans 288. Reality Visibility and occlusion Wayfinding Z-buffer 268 INDEX 343

4 Text, Speech and Language Technology 1. H. Bunt and M. Tomita (eds.): Recent Advances in Parsing Technology ISBN X 2. S. Young and G. Bloothooft (eds.): Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing ISBN T. Dutoit: An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis ISBN L. Lebart, A. Salem and L. Berry: Exploring Textual Data ISBN J. Carson-Berndsen, Time Map Phonology ISBN P. Saint-Dizier (ed.): Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases ISBN T. Strzalkowski (ed.): Natural Language Information Retrieval ISBN J. Harrington and S. Cassiday: Techniques in Speech Acoustics ISBN H. van Halteren (ed.): Syntactic Wordclass Tagging ISBN E. Viegas (ed.): Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons ISBN S. Armstrong, K. Church, P. Isabelle, S. Nanzi, E. Tzoukermann and D. Yarowsky (eds.): Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora ISBN F. Van Eynde and D. Gibbon (eds.): Lexicon Developmentfor Speech and Language Processing ISBN X; Pb: J. Véronis (ed.): Parallel Text Processing. Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora ISBN M. Horne (ed.): Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce ISBN A. Botinis (ed.): Intonation. Analysis, Modelling and Technology ISBN H. Bunt and A. Nijholt (eds.): Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies ISBN J.-C. Junqua and G. van Noord (eds.): Robustness in Languages and Speech Technology ISBN R.H. Baayen: Word Frequency Distributions ISBN B. Granström, D. House and. I. Karlsson (eds.): Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems ISBN M. Carl and A. Way (eds.): Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation ISBN ; Pb A. Abeillé: Treebanks. Building and Using Parsed Corpora ISBN ; Pb J. van Kuppevelt and R.W. Smith (ed.): Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue ISBN X; Pb H. Bunt, J. Carroll and G. Satta (eds.): New Developments in Parsing Technology ISBN X; Pb

5 24. G. Fant: Speech Acoustics and Phonetics. Selected Writings ISBN ; Pb W.J. Barry and W.A. Van Dommelen (eds.): The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology ISBN ; Pb D. Dahl (ed.): Practical Spoken Dialog Systems ISBN ; Pb O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds.): Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation ISBN ; Pb W. Minker, D. Bühler and L. Dybkjaer (eds.): Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments ISBN ; Pb KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

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