LINGUIST List 19.2968
Wed Oct 01 2008
Calls: Computational Ling/Greece; Applied Ling,General Ling/USA
Editor for this issue: Kate Wu
<katelinguistlist.org>
1. Mariet
Theune,
European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
2. Philip
McCarthy,
FLAIRS User Language Paraphrase Challenge
Message 1: European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Date: 01-Oct-2008
From: Mariet Theune <m.theuneewi.utwente.nl>
Subject: European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
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Full Title: European Workshop on Natural Language Generation Short Title: ENLG 2009
Date: 30-Mar-2009 - 31-Mar-2009 Location: Athens, Greece Contact Person: Mariet Theune Meeting Email: m.theuneewi.utwente.nl Web Site: http://enlg2009.uvt.nl/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 19-Dec-2008
Meeting Description:
12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009) http://enlg2009.uvt.nl/
ENLG 2009 is organized as an EACL workshop, and will take place on 30 and 31 March 2009 in Athens, Greece. It continues a biennial series of workshops on natural language generation that has been running since 1987, providing a regular forum for presentation of research in this area, both for NLG specialists and for researchers from other areas. ENLG 2009 includes two special events. To begin, the Generation Challenges 2009 will be held in conjunction with ENLG 2009, as an umbrella event designed to bring together three different shared-task evaluation efforts that involve the generation of natural language. In addition, ENLG 2009 will have a special track devoted to the generation of vague language based on exact input data.
Call for Papers
[apologies for multiple postings]
ENLG 2009 is organized as an EACL workshop, and will take place on 30 and 31 March 2009 in Athens, Greece.
Invited Speakers:
Regina Barzilay (MIT)
Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen)
The ENLG 2009 workshop continues a biennial series of workshops on natural language generation that has been running since 1987, providing a regular forum for presentation of research in this area, both for NLG specialists and for researchers from other areas. ENLG 2009 includes two special events. To begin, the Generation Challenges 2009 (see http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/genchal09) will be held in conjunction with ENLG 2009, as an umbrella event designed to bring together three different shared-task evaluation efforts that involve the generation of natural language. The Generation Challenges are organized by Anja Belz, Albert Gatt and Eric Kow. In addition, ENLG 2009 will have a special track devoted to the generation of vague language based on exact input data.
ENLG 2009 invites substantial, original, and unpublished submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. Topics of interest include:
- Affective / emotional generation - Content and text planning - Generation for embodied agents and robots - Evaluation of NLG systems - Text-to-text generation - Lexicalisation - Multimedia or multimodal generation - Story-telling and narrative generation - NLG for real-world applications - NLG in linguistically motivated frameworks - Personalization and personality of text - Psycholinguistics and NLG - Referring expression generation - Statistical processing for NLG - Surface realization - Use of ontologies in NLG - Vague expressions and large database [special track]
Requirements: A paper accepted for presentation at ENLG 2009 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: ENLG has two submission categories, long and short papers: - Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages, including references (these will be orally presented); - 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 Start web site for the workshop (to be made available). 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 (see http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/authors). Reviewing will be blind, so you should avoid identifying the authors within the paper. Please note that papers for the shared tasks should be submitted via the Generation Challenges website.
If authors have any questions, they should contact the workshop organizers.
The following researchers have agreed to be members of the ENLG 2009 Program Committee.
- Regina Barzilay, MIT, USA - John Bateman, Universitat Bremen, Germany - Anja Belz, University of Brighton, UK - Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany - Charles Callaway, University of Edinburgh, UK - Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK - Leo Ferres, University of Concepcion, Chile - Mary-Ellen Foster, University of Munich, Germany - Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, France - Albert Gatt, University of Aberdeen, UK - John Kelleher, Dublin Insitute of Technology, Ireland - Geert-Jan Kruijff, DFKI GmbH, Germany - David McDonald, BBN Technologies, USA - Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK - Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK - Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK - David Reitter, Pittsburgh University, USA - Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK - Matthew Stone, Rutgers, USA - Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen, UK - Manfred Stede, Universitat Potsdam, Germany - Ielka van der Sluis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Jette Viethen, Macquarie University, Australia - Michael White, Ohio State University, USA
ENLG 2009 is endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN).
Important Dates: - Dec 19, 2008 Deadline for paper submission - Jan 30, 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers - Feb 13, 2009 Camera-ready copies due - Mar 30-31, 2009 ENLG 2009
Contact ENLG 2009 is organized by:
Emiel Krahmer Tilburg centre for Creative Computing Department of Communication and Information Sciences Tilburg University P.O.Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands e.j.krahmerewi.utwente.nl
Message 2: FLAIRS User Language Paraphrase Challenge
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Date: 19-Sep-2008
From: Philip McCarthy <pmccarthymail.psyc.memphis.edu>
Subject: FLAIRS User Language Paraphrase Challenge
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Full Title: FLAIRS User Language Paraphrase Challenge Short Title: ULPC
Date: 19-May-2009 - 21-May-2009 Location: Sanibel Island, Florida, USA Contact Person: Philip McCarthy Meeting Email: pmccarthymail.psyc.memphis.edu Web Site: http://https://umdrive.memphis.edu/pmmccrth/public/Paraphrase%20Corpus/Paraphrase_site.htm?uniq=-uxn4iq
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 23-Nov-2008
Meeting Description:
We use the term User-Language to refer to the natural language input of users interacting with an intelligent tutoring system (ITS).
Call for Papers
The primary characteristics of user-language are that it is short (typically a single sentence) and that it is unedited (e.g., it is replete with typographical errors and lacking in grammaticality). We use the term paraphrase to refer to ITS users' attempt to restate a given target sentence in their own words such that a produced sentence, or user response, has the same meaning as the target sentence.
The corpus in this challenge comprises 1998 target-sentence/student response text-pairs, or protocols. The protocols have been evaluated by expert human raters along 10 dimensions of paraphrase characteristics. Along with the protocols, the database comprising the challenge includes 10 computational indices that have been used to assess these protocols. The challenge we pose for researchers is to describe and assess their own approach (computational or statistical) to evaluating, characterizing, and/or categorizing, any, some, or all of the paraphrase dimensions in this corpus.
The purpose of establishing such evaluations of user-language paraphrases is so that ITSs may provide users with accurate assessment and subsequently facilitative feedback, such that the assessment would be comparable to one or more trained human raters. As such, these evaluations will help to develop the field of natural language assessment and understanding.
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages, are due by November 23rd, 2008, and should be submitted to the ANLP special track for FLAIRS-22. Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Please see http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2009 for more details.
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