<div class="gmail_quote"> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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ACL-HLT 2011<br>
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Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation<br>
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Portland, Oregon, USA; June 24, 2011<br>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011</a><br>
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Abstract Deadline: April 01, 2011<br>
Full Submission Deadline: April 09, 2011<br>
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This workshop is endorsed by SIGGEN<br>
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*** DEADLINE EXTENDED ***<br>
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The deadline for papers has been extended until April 9. However,<br>
to help us manage our reviewing schedule, please submit your abstract<br>
by April 1 (using the START V2 system).<br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION<br>
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The ability to perform monolingual text-to-text generation is an<br>
important step in solving many natural language processing problems.<br>
For example, when generating novel text at the sentence-level,<br>
abstractive summarization systems may need to compress sentences or<br>
fuse multiple sentences together; the evaluation of translation<br>
systems may require additional paraphrases to use as reference gold<br>
standards; and answers to questions may need to be generated<br>
automatically from extracted sentences. The community of researchers<br>
examining monolingual text-to-text generation has grown steadily in<br>
recent years, introducing the need for a focused venue to communicate<br>
results in this area. As tools and approaches are developed, it is<br>
important that our community shares its experiences and its resources.<br>
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This workshop will solicit work describing the use of data-oriented<br>
text-to-text generation methods, where the generation process begins<br>
with some source text as input. As such, it complements existing<br>
events such as GenChal'11 at ENLG 2011, which will have a focus on<br>
data-to-text surface realisation methods.<br>
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This year, the workshop will focus on work describing the generation<br>
of novel sentences, with preference given to submissions that describe<br>
how the proposed text-to-text generation model has an impact on<br>
content selection and/or issues of grammaticality at the sentence<br>
level. Submissions can describe work-in-progress, resources, position<br>
papers as well as traditional unpublished work.<br>
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Suggested topics for this workshop include (but are not limited to):<br>
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* Sentence fusion<br>
* Sentence compression<br>
* Sentence-level paraphrase generation<br>
* Answer generation for questions<br>
* Sentence simplification<br>
* Evaluating novel sentence generation<br>
* Semantics and world knowledge for sentence generation<br>
* Content planning issues in text-to-text generation<br>
* Incorporating user preferences for text-to-text generation<br>
* Discourse-level constraints for novel sentence generation<br>
* Descriptions of new monolingual text-to-text generation problems<br>
* Applications of monolingual text-to-text generation<br>
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A list of relevant resources can be found here:<br>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011#data" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011#data</a>.<br>
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION<br>
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Please follow the 2011 ACL-HLT submission guidelines:<br>
<a href="http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission" target="_blank">http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission</a><br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Abstract Submission Deadline: April 01, 2011<br>
Submission Deadline: April 09, 2011<br>
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2011<br>
Camera-ready papers Due: May 06, 2011<br>
Workshop: June 24, 2011<br>
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS<br>
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Katja Filippova, Google, Switzerland (<a href="mailto:katjaf@google.com">katjaf@google.com</a>)<br>
Stephen Wan, CSIRO, Australia (stephen.wan@csiro.au)</div><br>