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[Anja Belz]

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Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
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Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation is a pre-conference
workshop at Corpus Linguistics 2005, to be held in Birmingham, on 14
July 2005.

The workshop programme combines diverse presentations on the use of
corpora in NLG, ranging from traditional, manual techniques to the
more recent machine learning and statistical methods. The goals of the
workshop are to present and discuss current research, to compare
manual and automatic corpus exploitation, to evaluate achievements,
and to identify challenges for the future.

There will be an invited talk by Irene Langkilde-Geary, one of the
founding researchers of the field of statistical generation, eight
technical contributions, a session of brief presentations of specific
corpora and their possible NLG uses, and a panel discussion on the
topics of the workshop.

We would like to encourage wide participation, especially from (but
not necessarily limited to) researchers in any field related to NLG,
MT, dialogue, corpus building, and neighbouring disciplines.

Any workshop participant may contribute a brief corpus presentation.
Please send the name of your corpus and a one-paragraph description to
the workshop organisers (ucnlg at itri.brighton.ac.uk).

We look forward to seeing you in Birmingham on 14th July.


Registration & Accommodation
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Registration is open at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 website
(http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference/registrationformCL2005.htm).
Please note that Using Corpora for NLG is a full-day workshop, and
that you do not need to register for the main conference.  The
workshop registration fee is 70 Pounds.  Accommodation is available at
the University of Birmingham.  Simply select the appropriate options
in the registration form.


Invited Speaker
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Irene Langkilde-Geary (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA):
Constraint programming as a Whiteboard Architecture for Probabilistic
NLG.


Regular Papers
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Automatic Evaluation of Referring Expression Generation Using Corpora
   Surabhi Gupta and Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University, USA

Re-Creating Dialogues from a Corpus
   Amy Isard and Carsten Brockmann, HCRC, University of Edinburgh, UK

A Review of Recent Corpus-based Methods for Evaluating Text Structuring
in NLG
   Nikiforos Karamanis, University of Wolverhampton, UK
   Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, UK

Using an Annotated Corpus as a Knowledge Source for Language Generation
   Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, EML-Research gGmbH, Germany

The Penn Discourse TreeBank as a Resource for Natural Language Generation
   Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni
   Miltsakaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Bonnie Webber,
   University of Edinburgh, UK

Statistically Generated Summary Sentences: A Preliminary Evaluation of
Verisimilitude using Precision of Dependency Relations
   Stephen Wan, Macquarie University, Australia

Deriving content selection rules from a corpus of non-naturally occurring
documents for a novel NLG application
   Sandra Williams and Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK

Building Surface Realizers Automatically From Corpora Using
General-Purpose Tools
   Huayan Zhong and Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University, USA


Short corpus presentations
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Ehud Reiter: Memories for Life (M4L) Corpus
More T.B.A.


Panel on Exploiting Corpora for NLG
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Chris Brew, Linguistics, Ohio State University, USA
Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, USA
Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
Bonnie Webber, Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK


Proceedings
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The proceedings of the workshop will be published in printed form and
electronically on the web.  We plan to publish selected papers in a
special issue of a suitable journal.


Workshop Co-chairs
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Anja Belz, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
Sebastian Varges, CSLI, Stanford University, USA


Programme committee
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Anja Belz, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
John Carroll, Informatics, University of Brighton, UK
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Michel Genereux, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, UK
Stephan Oepen, Oslo University, Norway, and CSLI Stanford, USA
Sebastian Varges, CSLI, Stanford University, USA


Workshop website
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http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/