[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: ACL-HLT Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation (T2T)

[Katja Filippova]

                  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                            ACL-HLT 2011

    Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation

              Portland, Oregon, USA; June 24, 2011

          https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011

              Submission Deadline: April 01, 2011


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The ability to perform monolingual text-to-text generation is an
important step in solving many natural language processing problems.
For example, when generating novel text at the sentence-level,
abstractive summarization systems may need to compress sentences or
fuse multiple sentences together; the evaluation of translation
systems may require additional paraphrases to use as reference gold
standards; and answers to questions may need to be generated
automatically from extracted sentences. The community of researchers
examining monolingual text-to-text generation has grown steadily in
recent years, introducing the need for a focused venue to communicate
results in this area. As tools and approaches are developed, it is
important that our community shares its experiences and its resources.

This workshop will solicit work describing the use of data-oriented
text-to-text generation methods, where the generation process begins
with some source text as input. As such, it complements existing
events such as GenChal'11 at ENLG 2011, which will have a focus on
data-to-text surface realisation methods.

This year, the workshop will focus on work describing the generation
of novel sentences, with preference given to submissions that describe
how the proposed text-to-text generation model has an impact on
content selection and/or issues of grammaticality at the sentence
level. Submissions can describe work-in-progress, resources, position
papers as well as traditional unpublished work.

Suggested topics for this workshop include (but are not limited to):

 * Sentence fusion
 * Sentence compression
 * Sentence-level paraphrase generation
 * Answer generation for questions
 * Sentence simplification
 * Evaluating novel sentence generation
 * Semantics and world knowledge for sentence generation
 * Content planning issues in text-to-text generation
 * Incorporating user preferences for text-to-text generation
 * Discourse-level constraints for novel sentence generation
 * Descriptions of new monolingual text-to-text generation problems
 * Applications of monolingual text-to-text generation

A list of relevant resources can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011#data.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Please follow the 2011 ACL-HLT submission guidelines:
http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 01, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2011
Camera-ready papers Due: May 06, 2011
Workshop: June 24, 2011


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Katja Filippova, Google, Switzerland (katjaf at google.com)
Stephen Wan, CSIRO, Australia (stephen.wan at csiro.au)

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