31.2904, Calls: Comp Ling/Spain

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Subject: 31.2904, Calls: Comp Ling/Spain

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:55:48
From: Simon Mille [simon.mille at upf.edu]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation

 
Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation 
Short Title: MSR 2020 

Date: 12-Dec-2020 - 12-Dec-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Simon Mille
Meeting Email: msr.organizers at gmail.com
Web Site: http://taln.upf.edu/pages/msr2020-ws/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Multilingual Surface Realisation workshop series aims to bring together
researchers interested in surface-oriented Natural Language Generation
problems such as word order determination, inflection, functional word
determination, paraphrasing, etc., especially in a multilingual context. The
2020 edition of the workshop, MSR’20, will incorporate presentation of the
results of the Surface Realisation Shared Task 2020 and of a number of
technical papers on (M)SR topics. The workshop will be held at COLING’20 in
Barcelona, on December 12, 2020.


Call for Papers: 

MSR’20 invites contributions on all topics that are related to multilingual
and monolingual surface realisation in NLG, specifically including and
encouraging reversible methods. We welcome all submissions that address
problems of surface-oriented generation such as grammatical and/or information
structure-driven word order determination, inflection, functional word
determination, paraphrasing, etc. We particularly encourage the submission of
papers that make a clear contribution to the progress in robust multilingual
surface generation, i.e. present methods easily portable from one language to
another and clearly scalable. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
- Linearisation in NLG
- Multilingual approaches to surface realisation
- Function word generation
- Inflection in NLG
- Joint generation from abstract representations
- Surface-oriented text simplification
- Surface-oriented spoken language generation
- Application of surface realisation for grammatical error correction
- NLG in surface-oriented paraphrasing
- Deep learning approaches to (M)SR

Shared Tasks: 
This year's shared task event uses the same training, validation and in-domain
test sets as the SR’19 Shared Task, with the same data and resource
restrictions (see the SR’20 webpage for details). However, this year’s shared
task differs in two respects: (i) the addition of an ''open'' mode in each
track, where there are no restrictions on the resources that can be used, and
(ii) the introduction of new evaluation datasets. Full details of both tasks
can be found on the SR'20 website.

Important Dates: 
12 July 2020: Shared Task starts
1 Oct 2020: Shared task submissions due  
8 Oct 2020: Workshop papers due
8 Oct 2020: Shared Task system descriptions due
20 Oct 2020: Notification of acceptance
31 Oct 2020: Camera-ready papers due
12 Dec 2020: Workshop date

Submissions: 
We invite long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages). Both long and
short papers have unlimited references, and their final versions will be given
one additional page (up to 9 and 5 pages, respectively, in the proceedings and
unlimited pages for references).

MSR 2020 uses a double-blind reviewing process. Papers must conform to the
official COLING’20 style guidelines, be in PDF format, and be submitted via
the Softconf START conference management system.

To encourage inclusiveness and the presentation of speculative and recent
work, inclusion in the conference proceedings will be made optional. The
author’s preference should be indicated with the final submission.

Multiple submission policy: Multiple submissions are allowed, but the authors
should indicate clearly whether they have submitted or plan to submit a paper
with the same content to another venue.

Contact: msr.organizers at gmail.com




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