<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Task Proposals</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
GENERATION CHALLENGES 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
To be held in conjunction with ENLG 2013, August 8-9, Sofia, Bulgaria</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Over the past six years, there has been a lot of activity in</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">connection with shared tasks in Natural Language Generation (NLG). This</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">is reflected in the level of participation and interest in the Generation Challenges,</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">an umbrella event designed to bring together a variety of shared-task evaluation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">efforts that involve the generation of natural language. For some of the </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">tasks, evaluation results and participating systems will be presented at </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the Generation Challenges 2013 Special Session at the 14th European Workshop </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'13). The session will follow the</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">format of previous GenChal results sessions, with presentations of</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">results by the organisers of the different shared tasks, as well as</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">presentations of proposals for new shared tasks in the Task Proposals</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Track. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Track on Proposals for Future Tasks:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite submissions of papers describing ideas for future shared<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">tasks in the general area of language generation. Proposed tasks can</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be in the area of core NLG, or in other research areas in which</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">language is generated. Examples include text-to-text generation (including MT and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">summarisation), combining core NLG and MT, combining core NLG and</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">text summarisation, and/or generating language from heterogeneous data. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions should describe possible future tasks</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in detail, including information regarding organisers, task</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">description, motivating theoretical interest and/or application</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">context, size and state of completion of data to be used, and</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">evaluation plans.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Instructions for Paper Submissions:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions in the Task Proposals Track should be no more than 4 (four) <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
pages long excluding citations, and should</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">follow the ACL'13 guidelines using the style files provided via the</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
ACL 2013 homepage. Papers should be sent in PDF format by email to</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:enlg2013@um.edu.mt" target="_blank">enlg2013@um.edu.mt</a>. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Task Proposal papers should be submitted no later than 16 June 2013. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Generation Challenges Steering </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Committee. As reviewing will not be blind, there is no need to anonymise papers. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This is not intended to be a selective process, but the organisers reserve </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the right to reject papers which do not fall within the scope of the GenChal initiative, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">or which do not follow guidelines.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Accepted submissions will be included in the ENLG'13 proceedings.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dates:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- - - -</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Paper submission<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>16th June 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Notification of acceptance<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> 1</span>8th June 2013</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission of camera-ready papers<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>21st June 2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ENLG'13<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8-9 August, 2013</div>
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