28.2210, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/Spain

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Subject: 28.2210, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/Spain

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 12:34:15
From: Kristina Kocijan [krkocijan at ffzg.hr]
Subject: Linguistic Resources for Automatic Natural Language Generation Workshop

Full Title: Linguistic Resources for Automatic Natural Language Generation Workshop 
Short Title: LiRA-NLG 2017 

Date: 04-Sep-2017 - 04-Sep-2017
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
Contact Person: Kristina Kocijan
Meeting Email: krkocijan at ffzg.hr
Web Site: http://www.nooj-association.org/media/k2/attachments/events/LiRANLG.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

In conjunction with INLG 2017, we are organizing a half-day workshop on
LiRA-NLG (Linguistic Resources for Automatic Natural Language Generation). 

This workshop aims to bring together linguists who are interested in
developing large-coverage linguistic resources and researchers with an
interest in developing real-world NLG software. These two communities have
been working separately for many years: NLG researchers are typically more
focused on technical issues specific to text generation, where good
performance (e.g. recall and precision) is crucial, whereas linguists tend to
focus on problems related to the development of exhaustive and precise
resources that are mainly ''neutral'' vis-à-vis any NLP application (e.g.
parsing or generating sentences), using various grammatical formalisms such as
NooJ, TAG or HPSG. 

Recent progress in both fields is reducing many of these differences, with
large-coverage linguistic resources being more and more used by robust NLP
software. For instance, NLG researchers can now use large dictionaries of
multiword units and expressions, and several linguistic experiments have shown
the feasibility of using large phrase-structure grammars (a priori used for
text parsing) in ''generation'' mode, to automatically produce paraphrases of
sentences that are described by grammars.

By encouraging members of both communities to discuss work in related topics
with each other, we hope to move towards better joint understanding of the
problems involved. This workshop focuses on the following questions:

- How to develop “neutral” linguistic resources (dictionaries, morphological,
phrase-structure and transformational grammars) that can be used both to parse
and generate texts automatically?
- Is it possible to generate grammatical sentences by using linguistic data
alone, i.e. with no statistical methods to remove ambiguities? What are the
limitations of rule-based systems, as opposed to stochastic ones?

Workshop Organizers:
- Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Peter Machonis, Florida International University, USA
- Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France

Scientific Committee:
- Héla Fehri (University of Gabes, Tunisia)
- Yuras Hetsevich (United Institute of Informatic Problems, Belarus)
- Kristina Kocijan (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Elena Lloret Pastor (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
- Peter Machonis (Florida International University, USA)
- Slim Mesfar (University of Carthage, Tunisia)
- Simon Mille (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)

Call for Papers: 

Topics can relate to any aspect of NLG, such as:
- large-coverage linguistic resources
- lexicalization
- Machine-Translation
- NLG for real-world application
- paraphrase generation
- phraseology of specialized languages
- rule-based approaches to generation
- comparison between rule-based and statistical approaches to NLG -- surface
realization -- text-to-text generation and summarization -- transformational
analysis and generation.

Submission Information:

Abstract Submission deadline: June 2, 2017
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished work,
completed or in progress. The papers should be maximally 2 pages of main
content, with additional pages allowed for references and appendices. All
accepted papers will be presented as talks.
Abstract submission will be electronic in PDF format through the EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=liranlg2017

Acceptance notification: July 3, 2017 
Camera ready papers: July 20, 2017
Published papers will be included in ACL Anthology.

Registration:
Regular: EUR 75/125/150 (early/late/on-site)
Student: EUR 50/75/100 (free for student helpers)

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