Call For Papers
The First International Natural Language Generation Conference
(INLG'2000) will be held June 13 to 16, 2000 in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
This conference continues in the tradition of the nine biennial
workshops on natural language generation that have been held from 1980
to 1998. INLG'2000 will offer the opportunity to a larger audience to
participate in the main meeting of researchers in the field.
For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to natural language generation are solicited. A separate
track will be offered for Student Papers. Submissions for all tracks
are due by 6 February 2000.
The INLG'2000 program committee invites papers describing original
research on the following topics:
- Generation and summarization
- Multimodal and multimedia generation
- Multilingual generation
- Concept to speech, models of intonation
- Strategic generation for text and dialogue
- Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content
selection and organization
- Tactical generation, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence
aggregation, lexical choice
- Architecture of generators
- Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and
summarization
- User-customized generation and summarization
- Psychological modelling of discourse production
- Learning methods for generation
- Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization
- Applications of: generation, concept-to-speech, information
extraction, information retrieval techniques to summarization,
report generation, explanation.
The conference will be organized in three tracks:
- Main session
- Student session
- Special session on evaluation in generation
We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel
tracks. Workshops will be held the day before the main session, on
Monday 12 June 2000.
A paper accepted for presentation at INLG'2000 must not be or have
been presented at any other meeting with publicly available
proceedings. Submission to other conferences should be indicated on
the paper. Submission to the main session should describe completed
work. Submission to the student session should describe work in
progress. Submission to the evaluation
session should describe statements on methodology, reports on
actual evaluation work and proposals for evaluation benchmarks.
Dates
- 6 February 2000: Papers submission deadline
- 14 April 2000: Notification of acceptance
- 7 May 2000: Final copy due for all contributions
- 12 June 2000: Workshops
- 13-16 June: INLG'2000 Conference, Mitzpe Ramon
Submission Instructions
Submissions should follow this procedure.
Programme Committee
- Michael Elhadad, Ben
Gurion University, Israel (Chair)
- Stephan Buseman,
DFKI, Germany
-
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
- James Lester,
North Carolina State University, USA
- Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE
Corporation, USA
- Kathy McCoy,
University of Delaware, USA
- David McDonald,
Gensym Corp, USA
- Dragomir Radev,
University of Michigan, USA
- Jacques Robin,
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
- Donia Scott,
University of Brighton, UK
- Manfred Stede,
Technical University, Berlin, Germany
- Matthew Stone,
Rutgers University, USA
- Ingrid Zukerman,
Monash University, Australia
Student Session
Special Session on Evaluation
For additional information, please contact:
Software Demo
Proposals for software or project demonstrations are invited.
Proposals should indicate the type of hardware that would be required
if the proposal is accepted.
Equipment Availability
Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide
projector, a data projector (Barco) which will display from laptops,
and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available;
if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your
proposal.
Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the
local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to
the local organizers no later than May 15, 2000.
Local Arrangements
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