%0 Conference Proceedings %T Using NLG for speech synthesis of mathematical sentences %A Mazzei, Alessandro %A Monticone, Michele %A Bernareggi, Cristian %Y van Deemter, Kees %Y Lin, Chenghua %Y Takamura, Hiroya %S Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation %D 2019 %8 oct–nov %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Tokyo, Japan %F mazzei-etal-2019-using %X People with sight impairments can access to a mathematical expression by using its LaTeX source. However, this mechanisms have several drawbacks: (1) it assumes the knowledge of the LaTeX, (2) it is slow, since LaTeX is verbose and (3) it is error-prone since LATEX is a typographical language. In this paper we study the design of a natural language generation system for producing a mathematical sentence, i.e. a natural language sentence expressing the semantics of a mathematical expression. Moreover, we describe the main results of a first human based evaluation experiment of the system for Italian language. %R 10.18653/v1/W19-8658 %U https://aclanthology.org/W19-8658 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-8658 %P 463-472