This is the schema for the application-independent part of the necaRRL Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 The NECA Consortium. All rights reserved. This Schema uses parts of the XML Schema draft, SSML 1.0 Core Schema (20021129), for which the copyright notice is reproduced here: Copyright 1998-2002 W3C (MIT, INRIA, Keio), All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the SSML core schema and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of the schema for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. Importing dependent namespaces Temporal ordering: a list /seq/ and /par/ elements, imposing an order on /act/-elements. This can be underspecified in the mnlg-input, but has to be fully specified in the mnlg-output. Pay attention: this type is not entirely "clean" : it allows all substitutions for the abstract element "allowed-within-container". The ordering of /act/-references under /orderingReferentsType/ This element serves for possibly underspecified temporal ordering in M-NLG input. /sequence/ element may contain, in any order recursively, /sequence/, /parallel/ and /act/ elements. an /act/ element has one attribute which is a reference to a dialogue act or a non-communicative act. The attribute value is syntactically not restrained, but should of course reference one of the acts defined in the document. An UNordered enumeration of /dialogueAct/s and/or /nonCommunicativeActs/ How are gesture G and "alignto" element X coupled to each other? PARALELLISM par : G and X start at the same time par_start: G and X start at the same time (identical to "par"!) par_end : G and X stops at the same time par_adjust_to_fit (formerly: par_stretch) : G's duration is forced to be the same as X's : they start and stop at the same time atstress: G is aligned to the STRESSED position of X SEQUENTIALITY seq_before : G is performed before X --> preceede seq_after : G is performed after X --> succeede