Corpora: INLG workshop.Call for papers. Reminder

[Svetlana Sheremetyva]

                        CALL FOR PAPERS. REMINDER.

                            ANALYSIS FOR GENERATION
                                  a Workshop
                                in conjunction with
The International Conference on Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 (June
13-16)
                         June 12, 20000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
              he workshop homepage: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/external.htm

1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time

The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of NLG
with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG applications rather
than generation modules of MT systems. While it seems natural to consider
problems of analysis and generation as two sides of a coin in such NLP
applications as MT, researchers working on "pure" generation systems
sometimes treat problems arising at every stage of generation-content
specification, sentence planning, and surface realization-as independent.
Time may be ripe for examining the mutual utility of analysis and
generation in greater detail. The impetus is, as can be expected, the goal
of minimizing system-building efforts in language engineering.

2. A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address.

The workshop proposes to address  the  issues of

· Analysis as part of generation.. A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an
essential part of every generation system. The input to generation systems
such as raw data in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases
or even text snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still
must first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed The question arises
whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and integrate
analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at different stages
of generation.
· Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for
generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and
analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years have
discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources, especially
the grammars and demonstrated how the use of reversible grammars may lead
to efficient and flexible natural language parsing and generation systems.
It is worth discussing constraints on reversibility.
· Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for
generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that both
processes use many similar resources, and often it is less expensive to
reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an analysis lexicon) than
to acquire one for generation from scratch.It is worth discussing how to
establish whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation
and at what price.

In particular the workshop will seek to address the following issues

I. Applications of analysis in generation and types of analysis techniques
used in NLG.
II. Reusability and adaptability of knowledge resources in generation and
analysis
- knowledge representation
   - lexicon format and indexing
   - rule writing format
- knowledge acquisition and adaptation
   - reversibility of grammars
   - use of microtheories
- architectural issues
   - converting (morphological, syntactic, semantic, etc.) analyzers
into generator modules
   - architectural peculiarities of systems involving both analysis
and synthesis and reusability of their modules.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 12 pages
Including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a
separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short
abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of
the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and
email. Please send your electronic submission (PostScript or PDF format)
until March 20 to:

Svetlana Sheremetyeva,
Computing Research Laboratory  New Mexico State University,
 USA Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces New Mexico 88003-8001
505 646 5466 (voice)
 505 646 6218 (fax)
 lana at crl.nmsu.edu

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:	      	   March 20
Notification of acceptance:		   April 20
Final paper to workshop coordinator: April 28
Workshop:		                 June 12
INLG 2000:		        	   June13 - June 16

3. Organizing Committee

Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Chair and contact person
 Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
lana at crl.nmsu.edu

Sergei Nirenburg
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
sergei at crl.nmsu.edu

Richard Kittredge
Department of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal
kittredge at IRO.UMontreal.CA

 Anna Sagvall Hein
Department of linguistics, Uppsala University
Anna at ling.uu.se

Evelyne Viegas
Microsoft Corporation
evelynev at microsoft.com

Michael Zock
Language & Cognition   LIMSI - CNRS
zock at limsi.fr