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Thu Feb 28 2008 Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Computational Ling, Applied Ling/Japan Editor for this issue: F. Okki Kurniawan <okkilinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Crystal Nakatsu, 5th International Natural Language Generation 2. Anton Nijholt, Intelligent Virtual Agents Message 1: 5th International Natural Language Generation
Date: 27-Feb-2008 From: Crystal Nakatsu <inlg2008ling.osu.edu> Subject: 5th International Natural Language Generation E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 5th International Natural Language Generation Short Title: INLG 2008 Date: 12-Jun-2008 - 14-Jun-2008 Location: Salt Fork, OH, USA Contact Person: INLG Organizers Meeting Email: inlg2008ling.osu.edu Web Site: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/inlg2008/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 21-Mar-2008 Meeting Description: The 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (the Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation SIGGEN) will be held June 12-14, 2008 in Salt Fork, Ohio, USA. INLG is the leading international conference on research into natural language generation. It has been held in Sydney, Australia in 2006 (http://www.ict.csiro.au/inlg2006/), at Brockenhurst, UK in 2004 (http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04/), in Harriman, NY, USA in 2002 (http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/), and in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel in 2000 (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/). Prior to 2000, INLGs were International Workshops, running every other year since 1984. INLG provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation. INLG 2008 will be held this year immediately prior to ACL:HLT 2008 (June 15-20), in Salt Fork, OH (about 2 hours from Columbus, OH, the site of ACL:HLT 2008). In addition to the INLG conference, there will be a special session for the Referring Expression Generation Challenge (REG Challenge 2008). 2nd Call for Papers Invited Speakers: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer, The Ohio State University, USA Matthew Stone, Rutgers, USA Topics: INLG invites substantial, original, and unpublished submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. Active topics of interest include: - Affect/emotion generation - Architecture of generators - Content planning - Discourse models - Embodied generation - Evaluation of NLG systems - Generation and summarization - Lexicalization - Multilingual NLG - Multimedia or multimodal generation - NLG for real-world applications - NLG in linguistically motivated frameworks - Planning and NLG - Referring expression generation - Statistical processing for NLG - Surface realization - Use of ontologies in NLG Submission Information: - Requirements: A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2008 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submission to other conferences should be clearly indicated on the paper. - Category of Papers: The conference will be organized as a 2.5 day workshop, including sessions to present long papers, a special session for discussing the Referring Expression Generation Challenge (REG Challenge 2008), and a poster session for short papers and REG Challenge results. Authors must designate one of these categories at submission time: - Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages, including references; - Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, including references (these will be presented as posters during the poster session). Paper Submission: Submissions should be uploaded to the EasyChair web site for the conference. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Use of the ACL style files is strongly recommended. Reviewing will be blind, so you should avoid identifying the authors within the paper. Late submissions will not be accepted. Note that in extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program chairs sufficiently before the submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made. Important Dates: Mar 21, 2008: Submission of papers and posters Apr 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance May 16, 2008: Submission of camera-ready copy Jun 12-14, 2008: INLG 2008 in Salt Fork, OH Special Session on Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008 The second Referring Expression Generation Challenge will involve two different data sets: the TUNA Corpus (with previously unseen test data), and the GREC Corpus of references to named entities in free text. The Challenge will have eight submission tracks, including attribute selection, realisation and named entity generation tasks, as well as open category and evaluation methods tracks. Assessment criteria will range from automatically computed metrics to human evaluation. For the TUNA tasks the criteria will include minimality, humanlikeness, and identification/comprehension by human readers; those for the GREC task will include humanlikeness and the DUC criteria of coherence and referential clarity. Subject to feasibility, system processing efficiency is another possible criterion. Full details on the challenge can be found on the REG Challenge 2008 website. A separate call for participation will be issued by the challenge organizers, Anja Belz and Albert Gatt (gre-stec [at] itri.brighton.ac.uk). INLG08 Organizing Committee: Michael White and Crystal Nakatsu OSU Linguistics David McDonald BBN Technologies Please send any requests for information to: inlg2008ling.osu.edu Program Committee: Regina Barzilay, MIT, USA John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany Anja Belz, University of Brighton, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany Charles Callaway, University of Edinburgh, UK Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia, Canada Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO, Australia Robert Dale, University of Macquarie, Australia Hercules Dalianis, Stockholm University, Sweden Laurence Danlos, Université Paris 7, France Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Philip Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University, USA Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, France Michel Généreux, LIPN, France Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA Markus Guhe, University of Edinburgh, UK John Kelleher, Dublin Insitute of Technology, Ireland Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany James Lester, North Carolina State University, US Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, UK Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, USA David Reitter, University of Edinburgh, UK Graeme Richie, University of Aberdeen, UK James Shaw, The Thomson Corporation, USA Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University, USA Matthew Stone, Rutgers, USA Mariet Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen, UK Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen, UK Sebastian Varges, University of Trento, Italy Sandra Williams, The Open University, UK Michael Zock, CNRS/LIF, France Message 2: Intelligent Virtual Agents
Date: 26-Feb-2008 From: Anton Nijholt <anijholtcs.utwente.nl> Subject: Intelligent Virtual Agents E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Intelligent Virtual Agents Short Title: IVA 08 Date: 01-Sep-2008 - 03-Sep-2008 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact Person: Anton Nijholt Meeting Email: anijholtcs.utwente.nl Web Site: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/ Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 11-Apr-2008 Meeting Description: IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Call for Papers IVA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents - Affective interaction and emotion models - Models of personality and culture - Conversational and non-verbal behavior - Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents - Embodied cognitive modeling - Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents - Markup and representation languages - Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games - Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies - Applications and user studies The proceedings will appear in the Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer. We are inviting submissions of long and short papers, and posters. Key Dates: Friday, April 11, 2008: Electronic submissions due Friday, May 16, 2008: Author notification Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Camera ready Conference Chairs: Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan Senior Programme Committee: Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8, INRIA, France Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Best Paper Chair: W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc., USA Anton Nijholt University of Twente Publicity Chair of IVA-08 Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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