[Corpora-List] EACL2003 Workshop CfP: 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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                               Call for Papers

              9th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
                         (in conjunction with EACL2003)

                              13-14 April 2003
                              Budapest, Hungary

               (http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html)

    Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language
    processing that focuses on the generation of written texts in English
    or other human languages, generally from some non-linguistic data or
    knowledge. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of
    different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual
    reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and
    embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the
    automated production of language is associated with a large number of
    highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality
    poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues
    include content selection, text organization, the production of
    referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface
    realization, as well as coordination with other media.

    This workshop is part of a biennial series of workshops about natural
    language generation that has been running since 1987. Previous European
    workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa,
    Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse.

    The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which
    facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field.
    A substantial amount of time will be devoted to discussions, either in
    sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. The
    workshop will focus on the following topics:

    - Formal semantics and NLG
      In several subareas of NLG (generation of referring expressions,
      lexicalization, among others) methods of formal semantics have
      already been used successfully. By focusing on this topic, we hope
      to strengthen the theoretical basis of NLG, complementing the
      application-oriented emphasis that has become dominant recently.

    - Evaluation of NLG systems
      Evaluation is an important factor for all NL systems, which is
      notoriously underrepresented in the generation field. By focusing on
      this topic, we hope to strengthen the empirical basis of NLG,
      preparing the ground for dedicated activities on this topic.

    We are considering organizing an invited talk on the first and a panel
    on the second topic. Substantial and original submissions on all
    subfields of NLG, especially on the two special topics, are welcome.
    Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation. Since this is a
    workshop, we encourage papers that describe speculative ideas, work in
    progress, and discussions of important issues.

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Ehud Reiter, Univ. of Aberdeen
    Helmut Horacek, Univ. of the Saarland
    Kees van Deemter, Univ. of Brighton

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    John Bateman, Univ. of Bremen, Germany
    Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany
    Jo Calder, Fourth Person LtD, UK
    Charles Callaway, IRST, Italy
    John Carroll, Univ. of Sussex, UK
    Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
    Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, France
    Pamela Jordan, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
    Rodger Kibble, Univ. of London, UK
    Emiel Krahmer, Univ. of Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Chris Mellish, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
    Owen Rambow, Columbia Univ., USA
    Leo Wanner, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

    SUBMISSIONS

    Papers describing original work in all areas of NLG, in particular
    related to the workshop focus topics above, should be submitted
    electronically. Papers should be 4-8 pages long in PDF format following
    the guidelines at the EACL site
    (http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html).
    Send your submission to Ehud Reiter (ereiter@csd.abdn.ac.uk).

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submissions: 7 January 2003
    Notification of acceptance: 28 January 2003
    Camera-ready copies due: 13 February 2003
    Registration deadline: as ACL
    Workshop dates: 13-14 April 2003

    REGISTRATION

    The registration fees include attendance of the workshop and a copy of
    workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the EACL
    site (http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03) and indicate that you would
    like to attend the NLG workshop.

    PARTICIPATION WITHOUT SUBMISSION

    People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should
    send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to
    participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions /
    material for discussions about one of the topics. This information
    will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an
    informal and highly interactive workshop.
     

    CONTACT INFO

    Notifications of attendance should be sent to Ehud Reiter
    (ereiter@csd.abdn.ac.uk).



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