Pipelines, Templates and Transformations: XML for Natural Language Generation

The paper discusses a number of ways in which XML can be used in natural language generation, including XML-based pipeline architectures, template-based generation with XSL templates, and tree-totree transformations. The ideas are based on practical experience in building an experimental XMLbased generation component for a spoken dialogue system. Prototype implementations using DOM, XSL and Translets are briefly compared.