International Natural Language Generation Conference

Conference Program

Monday, 12 June
 

18:00

Reception

Tuesday, 13 June
 

9:00

Welcome

Evaluation Session

 

9:30	Evaluation Metrics for Generation (ps) Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow and Steve Whittaker
10:00	A Task-based Framework to Evaluate Evaluative Arguments Giuseppe Carenini
10:30	Panel on Evaluation (Inderjeet Mani moderator)
11:30	Break

Multilingual Generation

 

12:00	An empirical study of multilingual natural language generation: (ps) What Should a Text Planner Do? Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson and Maki Watanabe
12:30	Document structure and multilingual authoring (ps) Caroline Brun, Marc Dymetman and Veronika Lux
13:00	DTD-driven bilingual document generation (ps) Arantza Casillas, Joseb Abaitua, Requel Martinez
13:30	Lunch

15:00 – 17:00Visit to Mitzpe Ramon Visitor’s Center

18:00Early Dinner

Argumentation

 

19:00	Using Argumentation Strategies in Automated Argument Generation (ps) Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy and Kevin B. Korb
19:30	A strategy for generating evaluative arguments Giuseppe Carenini and Johanna Moore
20:00	Towards the Generation of Rebuttals in a Bayesian Argumentation System (ps) Nathalie Jitnah, Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy, and Sarah George
20:30	Break

New Applications

 

20:45	Optimising text quality in generation from relational databases (ps) Michael O'Donnell, Alistair Knott, Jon Oberlander and Chris Mellish
21:15	Generating a controlled language (ps) Laurence Danlos, Guy Lapalme and Veronika Lux
21:45	Multilingual Summary Generation in a Speech--To—Speech Translation System for Multilingual Dialogues (ps) JanAlexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp and Ralf Engel

Wednesday, 14 June

Cognitive Modeling Papers

 

9:00	Incremental Event Conceptualization and Natural Language Generation in Monitoring Environments (ps) Markus Guhe, Christopher Habel, Heike Tappe
9:30	The hyperonym problem revisited: Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in language generation (ps) Manfred Stede
10:00	Panel on Cognitive Modeling (R. Klabunde moderator)
10:30	Break

Surface Realization

 

11:00	Planning word-order dependent focus assignments (ps) Cornelia Endriss and Ralf Klabunde
11:30	Enriching partially specified representations for text realization using an attribute grammar. (ps) Songsak Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy and Syed S. Ali
12:00	Coordination and context-dependence in the generation of embodied conversation (ps) Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone and Hao Yan
12:30	Lunch

Architecture

 

14:00	Reinterpretation of an Existing NLG System in a Generic Generation Architecture (ps) Lynne Cahill, Christy Doran, Roger Evans, Chris Mellish, Daniel Paiva, Mike Reape, Donia Scott, Neil Tipper
14:30	An integrated framework for text planning and pronominalisation (ps) Rodger Kibble and Richard Power
15:00	Break
15:15	Content aggregation in natural language hypertext summarization of OLAP and Data Mining Discoveries (ps) Jacques Robin, Eloi L. Favero
15:45	An extended architecture for robust generation (ps) Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez and Peter Poller
16:15	Break
16:30	Invited Talk –  From lexical-aspectual components to syntax. Nomi Erteschik-Shir & T.R. Rapoport

18:00 

Excursion to the Ramon Crater + Banquet

Thursday, 15 June

Reference Generation

 

9:00	Generating Referring Quantified Expressions (ps) James Shaw, Kathleen McKeown
9:30	An Empirical Analysis of Constructing Non-restrictive NP Modifiers to Express Semantic Relations (ps) Hua Cheng and Chris Mellish
10:00	On identifying sets (ps) Matthew Stone
10:30	Break

Planning and Descriptions

 

11:00	Generating Vague Descriptions (ps) Kees van Deemter
11:30	Capturing the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Planning in Two Generation Systems (ps) Hua Cheng and Chris Mellish
12:00	Can text structure be incompatible with rhetorical structure? (ps) Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Richard Power, Donia Scott
12:30	Lunch

Invited Talk

 

14:30	Language Generation and Summarization:Moving Away from Sentence Extraction Kathleen McKeown
Student Session
16:00	From Context to Sentence Form (ps) Sabine Geldof
16:20	The CLEF semi-recursive generation algorithm Rodrigo Reyes <Talk Cancelled>
16:20	Sentence Generation and Neural Networks Kathrine Hammervold
16:40	Rhetorical Structure in Dialog (ps) Amanda Stent
17:00	Break

Demo Session

 

17:15	RSTTool 2.4 - A markup Tool for Rhetorical Structure Theory (ps) Michael O'Donnell
17:30	Demonstration of ILEX 3.0 (ps) Michael O'Donnell, Alistair Knott, Jon Oberlander, Chris Mellish
17:45	A development Environment for an MTT-Based Sentence Generator (ps) Bernd Bohnet, Andreas Langjahr and Leo Wanner
18:00	YAG: A Template-Based Generator for Real-Time Systems (ps) Susan W. McRoy, Songsak Channarukul and Syed S. Ali
18:15	An Efficient Text Summarizer Using Lexical Chains. (ps) H. Gregory Silber and Kathleen F. McCoy

Friday, 16 June

Generation Resources

 

9:00	Robust, applied morphological generation (ps) Guido Minnen, John Carroll, Darren Pearce
9:30	Integrating a Large-Scale, Reusable Lexicon with a Natural Language Generator (ps) Hongyan Jing, Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad, Kathy McKeown
10:00	Knowledge Acquisition for Natural Language Generation (ps) Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson and Liesl Osman
10:30	Break
11:00	Business Meeting

13:00Trip to Masada, the Dead Sea and Jerusalem