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Date: 03-Mar-2011
From: Katja Filippova [katjaf at google.com]
Subject: Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation
 

	
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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:24:54
From: Katja Filippova [katjaf at google.com]
Subject: Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation

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Full Title: Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation 
Short Title: T2T 

Date: 24-Jun-2011 - 24-Jun-2011
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA 
Contact Person: Katja Filippova Stephen Wan
Meeting Email: katjaf at google.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/texttotext2011 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2011 

Meeting Description:

1st Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation, colocated with ACL'11.

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.

Workshop Organizers:

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

2nd Call for Papers:

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


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