LINGUIST List 22.2590 Wed Jun 22 2011 Confs: Cog Sci., Comp Ling, Syntax/Edinburgh Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Albert Gatt , Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation Message 1: Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation Date: 20-Jun-2011 From: Albert Gatt <albert.gattum.edu.mt> Subject: Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation Short Title: UCNLG+Eval 2011 Date: 31-Jul-2011 - 31-Jul-2011 Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom Contact: Albert Gatt Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: Early Registration Deadline TOMORROW, June 21 2011 EMNLP'11 Workshop on Language Generation and Evaluation Call for Participation Language Generation and Evaluation (UCNLG+Eval) is a post-conference workshop at EMNLP'11, Edinburgh, on 31 July 2011. Workshop aims: UCNLG+Eval is the fourth workshop in an occasional series aiming to provide a forum for discussing NLG and its links with closely related fields from a corpus-oriented perspective. As in previous editions, this year's workshop focuses on a special theme: Language Generation and Evaluation. The event will showcase recent developments in methods for evaluating computationally generated language across NLP and continue the discussion of future directions for NLG evaluation. UCNLG+Eva will include a Shared Tasks Session of presentations and discussion, and host an invited talk on evaluation in NLG. Invited talk: Task-based Extrinsic Evaluation of NLG Systems -Professor Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Accepted papers: Exciting and Interesting: Issues in the Generation of Binomials -Ann Copestake and Aurélie Herbelot A New Sentence Compression Dataset and its Use in an Abstractive Generate-and-Rank Sentence Compressor -Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos Discriminative Features in Reversible Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars -Daniël de Kok Gre3d7: A Corpus Of Distinguishing Descriptions For Objects in Visual Scenes -Jette Viethen and Robert Dale Exploring Linguistically-Rich Patterns for Question Generation (Short Paper) -Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes and Luísa Coheur A Corpus of Human-Written Summaries of Line Graphs (Short Paper) -Charles Greenbacker, Sandra Carberry and Kathleen McCoy Linguistically Motivated Complementizer Choice in Surface Realization (Short Paper) -Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Michael White Session on Shared Tasks in NLG: The Story So Far and Where to Go from Here: Short presentations of all 8 past, present and future NLG Shared Tasks by their organisers: TUNA, GREC, GIVE, QG, SR, HOO, GRUVE, and SR Spanish. Interactive discussion session on the future of NLG Shared Tasks, results from which will be presented at the GenChal'11 Session at ENLG'11 and published in a white paper. Registration: Registration for the workshop should be done from the EMNLP conference site (http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp2011/registration.html). Early registration ends on 21st June 2011. Workshop organisers: Anja Belz, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK Roger Evans, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA Workshop website: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11 Contact email: ucnlgitri.brighton.ac.uk Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.