Call for papers
We invite the submission of papers for the Workshop on Using
Corpora for Natural Language Generation, a pre-conference workshop at
Corpus Linguistics 2005, to be held in Birmingham, 14 July
2005. Papers are invited on original and unpublished research on all
aspects of using corpora for natural language generation, including,
but not limited to:
- (Partial) automation of traditional corpus analysis for NLG
- Issues in annotating corpora for NLG
- Statistical approaches to deep and/or surface generation
- Machine learning methods for deep and/or surface generation
- Role of corpora in the evaluation of NLG systems
- Reuse of resources developed for NLU (e.g. treebanks) in NLG
- Domain-specific vs. general purpose corpora for NLG
We would like to emphasise that where we say `NLG' we mean to include
the language generation components of machine translation and dialogue systems.
Invited Speaker
Irene Langkilde-Geary (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA) will give
an invited talk with the provisional title: Constraint programming
as a Whiteboard Architecture for Probabilistic NLG.
Panel on Exploiting Corpora for NLG
We will hold a panel discussion on the topics of the workshop.
The panel members are:
Chris Brew, Linguistics, Ohio State University, USA
Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, USA
Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
Donia Scott, CRC, Open University, UK
Bonnie Webber, Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Proceedings
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in printed form and
electronically on the web. We plan to publish selected papers in a
special issue of a suitable journal.
Requirements
Papers should describe original work, emphasizing actual rather than
intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of
the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation
results should be included. A paper submitted to the Workshop on Using
Corpora for NLG cannot have previously been published. Papers that are
being submitted to other conferences or workshops should indicate
this.
Submission information
Reviewing will be based on abstracts, the final proceedings will
contain papers of 4-6 pages.
- Submission of abstracts:
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Submissions should be extended abstracts of papers, and should be
sent in PDF format by email to . Abstracts should not exceed 500 words. RTF format is also
accepted but not encouraged.
Reviewing of papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an
international workshop programme committee. Final decisions on the
technical programme will be made by the workshop organisers.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Self-references that reveal the authors'
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) ...".
In the body of the email submitting the abstract, please include
the authors' names and affiliations, and the paper title.
- Camera-ready full-length papers:
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4-6 pages in the IJCAI'05 format. Please follow the IJCAI formatting instructions (http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/).
Further instructions will be included in acceptance emails.
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: Friday 27th May 2005
Notification of acceptance: Friday 10th June 2005
Camera-ready deadline: Friday 1st July 2005
Date of workshop: Thursday 14th July
Programme committee
Anja Belz, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
John Carroll, Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Michel Généreux, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, UK
Stephan Oepen, Oslo University, Norway, and CSLI Stanford, USA
Sebastian Varges, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK