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Date: 20-Jun-2011
From: Albert Gatt [albert.gatt at um.edu.mt]
Subject: Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation
 

	
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:17:26
From: Albert Gatt [albert.gatt at um.edu.mt]
Subject: Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation

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Workshop on Using Corpora in NLG: Evaluation 
Short Title: UCNLG+Eval 2011 

Date: 31-Jul-2011 - 31-Jul-2011 
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact: Albert Gatt 
Contact Email: albert.gatt at um.edu.mt 
Meeting URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Early Registration Deadline TOMORROW, June 21 2011

EMNLP'11 Workshop on Language Generation and Evaluation

Call for Participation

Language Generation and Evaluation (UCNLG+Eval) is a post-conference workshop at EMNLP'11, Edinburgh, on 31 July 2011.


Workshop aims:
UCNLG+Eval is the fourth workshop in an occasional series aiming to provide a forum for discussing NLG and its links with closely related fields from a corpus-oriented perspective.  As in previous editions, this  year's workshop focuses on a special theme: Language Generation and Evaluation. The event will showcase recent developments in methods for evaluating computationally generated language across NLP and continue the discussion of future directions for NLG evaluation.  UCNLG+Eva will include a Shared Tasks Session of presentations and discussion, and host an invited talk on evaluation in NLG. 


Invited talk:
Task-based Extrinsic Evaluation of NLG Systems
-Professor Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK


Accepted papers:
Exciting and Interesting: Issues in the Generation of Binomials
  -Ann Copestake and Aurélie Herbelot

A New Sentence Compression Dataset and its Use in an Abstractive Generate-and-Rank Sentence Compressor
-Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos

Discriminative Features in Reversible Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars
-Daniël de Kok

Gre3d7: A Corpus Of Distinguishing Descriptions For Objects in Visual Scenes
-Jette Viethen and Robert Dale

Exploring Linguistically-Rich Patterns for Question Generation (Short Paper)
 -Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes and Luísa Coheur

A Corpus of Human-Written Summaries of Line Graphs (Short Paper)
 -Charles Greenbacker, Sandra Carberry and Kathleen McCoy

Linguistically Motivated Complementizer Choice in Surface Realization (Short Paper)
 -Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Michael White


Session on Shared Tasks in NLG: The Story So Far and Where to Go from Here:

Short presentations of all 8 past, present and future NLG Shared Tasks by their organisers: TUNA, GREC, GIVE, QG, SR, HOO, GRUVE, and SR Spanish.

Interactive discussion session on the future of NLG Shared Tasks, results from which will be presented at the GenChal'11 Session at ENLG'11 and published in a white paper.


Registration:
Registration for the workshop should be done from the EMNLP conference site (http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp2011/registration.html). Early registration ends on 21st June 2011.


Workshop organisers:
Anja Belz, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK
Roger Evans, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK
Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA


Workshop website:
http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11


Contact email:
ucnlg at itri.brighton.ac.uk 










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