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Once the dialog manager has interpreted the user’s input and decided how to respond, the next step for the conversational interface is to determine the content of the response and how best to express it. This stage is known as response generation (RG). The system’s verbal output is generated as a stretch of text and passed to the text-to-speech component to be rendered as speech. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the technology of RG and discuss tools and other resources.

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK

    Michael McTear

  2. ETSI Informática y Telecomunicación, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Zoraida Callejas

  3. Department of Computer Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Griol

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McTear, M., Callejas, Z., Griol, D. (2016). Response Generation. In: The Conversational Interface. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32967-3_12

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