[Corpora-List] UCNLG+MT Workshop at MT Summit: Call for Participation (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:54:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Anja Belz <a.s.belz at itri.brighton.ac.uk>
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Subject: [Corpora-List] UCNLG+MT Workshop at MT Summit: Call for Participation


UCNLG+MT - Copenhagen, 11 September 2007 - in conjunction with MT
SUMMIT 2007:

         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

*** Early registration deadline: 15 July 2007 ***
*** List of accepted papers included below ***

      http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

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Introduction:

Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and MT (UCNLG+MT) is a
pre-conference workshop at MT Summit XI, to be held in Copenhagen, 11
September 2007.

There are many branches of NLP research where language is generated (MT,
summarisation, human-computer dialogue, data-to-text generation, document
authoring, etc.).  However, for the most part, these form separate
research communities and the field called "Natural Language Generation
(NLG)" is to some degree isolated from many of them.

The UCNLG workshops have the general aims

1. to provide a forum for reporting and discussing data-based
    methods for generating language in all areas of application;
2. to open up the NLG research field to neighbouring areas in NLP
    and to foster cross-fertilisation between these research fields;
    and
3. to promote the sharing of data in NLG and the use of data-based
    methods of evaluation.

The special theme of this second UCNLG workshop is Language Generation and
MT.  Target language generation is typically given less attention than
other aspects of MT, such as evaluation, source language analysis and
transfer.  Recently there has been increasing interest in combining
linguistic knowledge with statistical MT.  Conversely, NLG -- where
symbolic approaches have long dominated -- has seen increasing interest in
probabilistic methods. With this special theme, we would like to explore
crossover points and potential for cross-fertilisation between MT and NLG.


Invited Speaker:
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Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, US, will present
the keynote address.


Accepted Workshop Papers:
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Yvette Graham, Deirdre Hogan and Josef van Genabith:
   Automatic Evaluation of Generation and Parsing for Machine Translation
   with Automatically Acquired Transfer Rules
Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Scott Martin:
   Towards Broad Coverage Surface Realization with CCG
Keiji Yasuda, Hirofumi Yamamoto and Eiichiro Sumita:
   Method of Selecting Training Sets to Build Compact and Efficient
   Statistical Language Model
Bernd Bohnet:
   The Two Basic Concepts of Topological Models and the Induction of Word
   Order Rules
Olivier Gouirand:
   A probabilisitic approach to linguistic analysis in MT output evaluation"
Irene Langkilde-Geary:
   Unified Syntactic Processing of Natural Language Using Concurrent Constraint Programming and
   Probabilistic Dependency Modeling
David Hardcastle:
   Generalizing Syntactic Collocates for Creative Language Generation


Discussion Session on Language Generation and MT:
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Nizar Habash:
   The More is Better principle for both MT and NLG
Andrei Popescu-Belis:
   Evaluation of NLG: some analogies and differences with machine translation and reference resolution
Gregor Thurmair:
   Generation Issues in Machine Translation
Sebastian Varges:
   One-way translation: an opportunity for NLG and MT research to interact


Programme Committee:
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Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T, USA
Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Kevin Knight, ISI, U of Southern California, USA
Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, USA
Chris Mellish, U of Aberdeen, UK
Jon Oberlander, U of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Power, Open University, UK
Flo Reeder, The Mitre Organisation, USA
Ehud Reiter, U of Aberdeen, UK
Amanda Stent, SUNY, USA
Michael Strube, EML Research, Germany
Kees van Deemter, U of Aberdeen, UK
Bonnie Webber, U of Edinburgh, UK
Mike White, Ohio State University, USA


Workshop organisers:
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Anja Belz, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK
Sebastian Varges, Information and Communication Technology,
University of Trento, Italy


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



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