From 12:30 Lunch
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13:30-13:45 Opening Session
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13:45-15:30 Text Planning
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chair: Ehud Reiter |
| 13:45 |
Salience-Driven Text Planning |
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Christian Chiarcos and Manfred Stede |
| 14:20 |
A Corpus-based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of Coherence for Text Structuring |
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Nikiforos Karamanis, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander and Massimo Poesio |
| 14:55 |
Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems |
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Farah Benamara |
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
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16:00-17:45 Generating Referring Expressions
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chair: Kees van Deemter |
| 16:15 |
Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups |
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Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama and Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 17:00 |
On Referring to Sets of Objects Naturally |
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Helmut Horacek |
| 17:45 |
Overgenerating Referring Expressions Involving Relations and Booleans |
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Sebastian Varges |
18:00-19:30 Poster Session
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20:00 Dinner
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9:00-10:00 Keynote Address
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chair: Roger Evans
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| 9:00 |
The Seduced Speaker: Modeling of Cognitive Control |
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Ardi Roelofs |
10:00-12:30 Student Session
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chair: Anja Belz |
| 10:00 |
Categorization of Narrative Semantics for Use in Generative Multidocument Summarization |
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David K. Elson |
| 10:30 |
Corpus-based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC |
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Mary Ellen Foster |
11:00 Coffee Break
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| 11:30 |
Hybrid NLG in a Generic Dialog System |
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Martin Klarner |
| 12:00 |
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle - When to Say "also" |
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Kristina Striegnitz |
12:30-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-15:45 Machine Learning for NLG
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chair: Chris Mellish |
| 14:00 |
Indirect Supervised Learning of Content Selection Logic |
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Pablo A.Duboue |
| 14:35 |
Classification-based Generation Using TAG |
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Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube |
| 15:10 |
SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-based Surface Natural Language Generator |
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Shimei Pan and James Shaw |
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
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16:15-18:00 Realisation I: Empirical Methods
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chair: Aravind Joshi |
| 16:15 |
The Use of a Structural N-gram Language Model in Generation-heavy Hybrid Machine Translation |
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Nizar Habash |
| 16:50 |
Contextual Influences on Near-synonym Choice |
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Ehud Reiter and Somayajulu Sripada |
| 17:20 |
Finetuning NLG through Experiments with Human Subjects: The Case of Vague Descriptions |
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Kees van Deemter |
19:30 Barbeque Banquet
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9:00-10:45 Realisation II: Style and Variation
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chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier |
| 9:00 |
Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation |
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Kaska Porayska-Pomsta and Chris Mellish |
| 9:35 |
Stylistically controlled generation |
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Daniel S. Paiva and Roger Evans |
| 10:10 |
An ATMS Approach to Systemic Sentence Generation |
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Hasan Kamal and Chris Mellish |
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
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11:15-13:00 Realisation III
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chair: Stephan Busemann |
| 11:15 |
Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech |
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Chris Mellish |
| 11:50 |
Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue |
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Matthew Purver and Ruth Kempson |
| 12:25 |
Reining in CCG Chart Realization |
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Michael White |
13:15-13:30 Closing Session
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