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Paul.Piwek, 3rd International Natural Language Generation Conference
Message 1: 3rd International Natural Language Generation Conference
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul.Piwek <Paul.Piwekitri.brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: 3rd International Natural Language Generation Conference
3rd International Natural Language Generation Conference
Short Title: INLG 2004
Date: 14-Jul-2004 - 16-Jul-2004
Location: Careys Manor, Brockenhurst, New Forest, United Kingdom
Contact: Roger Evans
Contact Email: inlg04itri.brighton.ac.uk
Meeting URL: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 12-Mar-2004
Meeting Description:
The Third International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG
2004) will be held 14th to 16th July 2004 at Carey's Manor in
Brockenhurst in the middle of the New Forest, UK. This conference
continues a twenty-year tradition of biennial workshops and
conferences on natural language generation. Submissions are invited
on all aspects of language generation, and the programme will include
invited speakers and a student session. INLG 2004 will immediately
precede ACL 2004 which will be held 21st to 26th July in Barcelona,
Spain.
Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -
Early registration deadline: June 30
DATE AND VENUE
14-16 July 2004
Careys Manor
Brockenhurst
New Forest
UK
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
INLG04 is the 3rd biennial conference on Natural Language Generation
of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest
Group on Generation (SIGGEN). INLG is the principal venue for
researchers within the field of Natural Language Generation. The
conference series succeeds a series of nine biennial workshops that
were held between 1982 and 1998. The field of Natural Language
Generation covers, amongst others, psycholinguistic, statistical and
language engineering approaches, and it attracts researchers from a
range of disciplines including linguistics, computational linguistics,
psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers in the
field of Natural Language Generation in a secluded self-contained
venue for two days of intensive interaction. This year's conference
takes place from noon July 14 till noon July 16 2004 and is held at
Careys Manor, a country house hotel situated in the village of
Brockenhurst in the heart of the New Forest in central southern
England. Accommodation and conference facilities are both at the
hotel. The programme consists of paper presentations, an invited talk,
a student session, a poster session and a banquet on the second
evening.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
14th July: Day 1
>From 12:30 Lunch
Opening Session
Text Planning Session
- Salience-Driven Text Planning
Christian Chiarcos and Manfred Stede
- A Corpus-based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of
Coherence for Text Structuring
Nikiforos Karamanis, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander
and Massimo Poesio
- Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent
Question Answering Systems
Farah Benamara
Generating Referring Expressions Session
- Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama
and Takenobu Tokunaga
- On Referring to Sets of Objects Naturally
Helmut Horacek
- Overgenerating Referring Expressions Involving
Relations and Booleans
Sebastian Varges
Poster Session & Drinks Reception
Dinner
15th July: Day 2
Keynote Address
The Seduced Speaker: Modeling of Cognitive Control
Ardi Roelofs (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
and F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging,
Nijmegen)
Student Session
- Categorization of Narrative Semantics for Use in
Generative Multidocument Summarization
David K. Elson
- Corpus-based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC
Mary Ellen Foster
- Hybrid NLG in a Generic Dialog System
Martin Klarner
- Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking
Principle - When to Say ''also''
Kristina Striegnitz
Machine Learning for NLG Session
- Indirect Supervised Learning of Content
Selection Logic
Pablo A.Duboue
- Classification-based Generation Using TAG
Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube
- SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-based Surface Natural
Language Generator
Shimei Pan and James Shaw
Realisation I: Empirical Methods Session
- The Use of a Structural N-gram Language Model
in Generation-heavy Hybrid Machine Translation
Nizar Habash
- Contextual Influences on Near-synonym Choice
Ehud Reiter and Somayajulu Sripada
- Finetuning NLG through Experiments with Human
Subjects: The Case of Vague Descriptions
Kees van Deemter
Barbeque Banquet
16th July: Day 3
Realisation II: Style and Variation Session
- Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta and Chris Mellish
- Stylistically controlled generation
Daniel S. Paiva and Roger Evans
- An ATMS Approach to Systemic Sentence Generation
Hasan Kamal and Chris Mellish
Realisation III Session
- Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech
Chris Mellish
- Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue
Matthew Purver and Ruth Kempson
- Reining in CCG Chart Realization
Michael White
Closing Session
POSTERS
A New Architecture for Summarising Time Series Data
Jin Yu, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter and Somayajulu Sripada
Utterance Planning in an Agent-based Dialogue System
Paul Thompson, Mark Stairmand and William Black
Situated Generation of Multimodal Deixis in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Alfred Kranstedt and Ipke Wachsmuth
Word lookup on the basis of associations:
strategies for turning an intuition into a product
Michael Zock
An Approach for Evaluating Cooperative
Question Answering Systems
Farida Aouladomar and Farah Benamara
A Development Environment for Multimodal Functional
Unification Generation Grammars
David Reitter
Controlling wide-coverage generation - The Cogent project
Roger Evans, Kees van Deemter, Anja Belz, Jason Teeple, David
Weir, John Carroll, Daniel Paiva, Eva Esteve Ferrer
Sentence generation in British Sign Language
Serge Sharoff, Anthony Hartley and Peter Llewellyn-Jones
Medical Record Generation in MedView from an NLG Perspective
Fredrik Lindahl
Three Scenarios for Navigational Advice Generation
Mike Rosner and Doreen Mizzi
Representational Underspecification in a Context-Free Framework
Anja Belz
Wysiwym with wider coverage
Richard Power and Roger Evans
REGISTRATION
Register at http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04/registration.htm
The early registration deadline is June 30.
ORGANIZATION
INLG04 is organized on behalf of ACL SIGGEN by ITRI, University
of Brighton. The chairs of this year's conference are
Roger Evans, Anja Belz and Paul Piwek
CONTACT INFORMATION
INLG04 Conference,
ITRI,
University of Brighton
BN2 4GJ,
UK
Tel: +44 1273 642900
Fax: +44 1273 642908
Email: inlg04itri.brighton.ac.uk
Web: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04