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CS.BGU.AC.IL>International Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 Mitzpe Ramon, Israel Workshops: 12 June 2000 Main conference: 13-16 June 2000 Second Call For Participation The First International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000) will be held June 12 to 16, 2000 in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. This conference continues in the tradition of the nine biennial workshops on natural language generation that have been held from 1980 to 1998. INLG'2000 will offer the opportunity to a larger audience to participate in the main meeting of researchers in the field. Following the tradition of previous INLG meetings, the conference will be held in an isolated and stunning natural environment: the Ramon Inn hotel, in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. The hotel is located on the edge of the Ramon Crater, in the middle of the Negev Desert. Conference Program =========== Mon 12 June =========== 18:00 Reception =========== Tue 13 June =========== 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome 9:30 - 11:30 ================================================== Evaluation Session ================================================== Author: Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow and Steve Whittaker Title: Evaluation Metrics for Generation Author: Giuseppe Carenini Title: A Task-based Framework to Evaluate Evaluative Arguments Panel on Evaluation (Inderjeet Mani moderator) 12:00 - 13:30 ================================================== Multilingual Generation ================================================== Author: Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson and Maki Watanabe Title: An empirical study of multilingual natural language generation: What Should a Text Planner Do? Author: Caroline Brun, Marc Dymetman and Veronika Lux Title: Document structure and multilingual authoring Author: Arantza Casillas, Joseb Abaitua, Requel Martinez Title: DTD-driven bilingual document generation - Lunch 14:45 - 16:15 ================================================== Argumentation ================================================== Author: Nathalie Jitnah, Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy, and Sarah George Title: Towards the Generation of Rebuttals in a Bayesian Argumentation System Author: Giuseppe Carenini and Johanna Moore Title: A strategy for generating evaluative arguments Author: Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy and Kevin B. Korb Title: Using Argumentation Strategies in Automated Argument Generation 16:30 - 17:30 ================================================== Invited Talk ================================================== 18:00 - 19:30 ================================================== Architecture ================================================== Author: Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez and Peter Poller Title: An extended architecture for robust generation Author: Lynne Cahill, Christy Doran, Roger Evans, Chris Mellish, Daniel Paiva, Mike Reape, Donia Scott, Neil Tipper Title: Reinterpretation of an Existing NLG System in a Generic Generation Architecture Author: Rodger Kibble and Richard Power Title: An integrated framework for text planning and pronominalisation - ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========== Wed 14 June =========== 9:00 - 10:30 ================================================== Cognitive Modeling Papers: ================================================== Author: Markus Guhe, Christopher Habel, Heike Tappe Title: Incremental Event Conceptualization and Natural Language Generation in Monitoring Environments Author: Manfred Stede Title: The hyperonym problem revisited: Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in language generation Panel on Cognitive Modeling (R Klabunde moderator) 11:00 - 12:30 ================================================== Reference Generation ================================================== Author: James Shaw, Kathleen McKeown Title: Generating Referring Quantified Expressions Author: Hua Cheng and Chriss Mellish Title: An Empirical Analysis of Constructing Non-restrictive NP Modifiers to Express Semantic Relations Author: Matthew Stone Title: On identifying sets - Lunch 14:30 - 16:30 ================================================== New Applications ================================================== Author: Jacques Robin, Eloi L. Favero Title: Content aggregation in natural language hypertext summarization of OLAP and Data Mining Discoveries. Author: Michael O'Donnell, Alistair Knott, Jon Oberlander and Chris Mellish Title: Optimising text quality in generation from relational databases Author: Laurence Danlos, Guy Lapalme and Veronika Lux Title: Generating a controlled language Author: Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp and Ralf Engel Title: Multilingual Summary Generation in a Speech--To--Speech Translation System for Multilingual Dialogues 17:30 - ... ================================================== Excursion to the Ramon Crater + Banquet ================================================== - ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========== Thu 15 June =========== 9:00 - 10:30 ================================================== Surface Realization ================================================== Author: Cornelia Endriss and Ralf Klabunde Title: Planning word-order dependent focus assignments Author: Songsak Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy and Syed S. Ali Title: Enriching partially-specified representations for text realization using an attribute grammar. Author: Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone and Hao Yan Title: Coordination and context-dependence in a generation of embodied conversation 11:00 - 12:30 ================================================== Planning and Descriptions ================================================== Author: Kees van Deemter Title: Generating Vague Descriptions Author: Hua Cheng and Chris Mellish Title: Capturing the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Planning in Two Generation Systems Author: Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Richard Power, Donia Scott Title: Can text structure be incompatible with rhetorical structure? - Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 ================================================== Student Session ================================================== Author: Sabine Geldof Title: From Context to Sentence Form Author: Rodrigo Reyes Title: The CLEF semi-recursive generation algorithm Author: Kathrine Hammervold Title: Sentence Generation and Neural Networks Author: Amanda Stent Title: Rhetorical Structure in Dialog 16:00 - 17:00 ================================================== Invited Talk - >From lexical-aspectual components to syntax. Nomi Erteschik-Shir & T.R. Rapoport Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ================================================== 17:15 - 18:45 ================================================== Demo Session ================================================== Author: Michael O'Donnell Title: RSTTool 2.4 - A markup Tool for Rhetorical Structure Theory Author: Michael O'Donnell, Alistair Knott, John Oberlander, Chris Mellish Title: Demonstration of ILEX 3.0 Author: Bernd Bohnet, Andreas Langjahr and Leo Wanner Title: A development Environment for an MTT-Based Sentence Generator Author: Susan W. McRoy, Songsak Channarukul and Syed S. Ali Title: YAG: A Template-Based Generator for Real-Time Systems Author: H. Gregory Silber and Kathleen F. McCoy Title: An Efficient Text Summarizer Using Lexical Chanis. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========== Fri 16 June =========== 9:00 - 10:30 ================================================== Generation Resources ================================================== Author: Guido Minnen, John Carroll, Darren Pearce Title: Robust, applied morphological generation Author: Hongyan Jing, Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad, Kathy McKeown Title: Integrating a Large-Scale, Reusable Lexicon with a Natural Language Generator Author: Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson and Liesl Osman Title: Knowledge Acquisition for Natural Language Generation 11:00 - 12:00 ================================================== Business Meeting ================================================== 13:00 Trip to the Masada, Dead Sea and Jerusalem ================================================== end ================================================== - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration form for the main conference and workshops is available at our homepage: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000 Registration will be accepted until May 15th. After this date, a late registration fee will be required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Programme Committee * Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University, Israel (Chair) * Stephan Buseman, DFKI, Germany * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada * James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA * Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware, USA * David McDonald, Gensym Corp, USA * Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA * Jacques Robin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil * Donia Scott, University of Brighton, UK * Manfred Stede, Technical University, Berlin, Germany * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Student Session * Irene Langkilde, University of South California - ISI * Charles Brendan Callaway, North Carolina State University * James Shaw, Columbia University Special Session on Evaluation * Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Equipment Availability Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a data projector (Barco) which will display from laptops, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers no later than May 15, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local Arrangements * Michael Elhadad elhadadMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue