Overview
The First International Natural Language Generation Conference
(INLG'2000) will be held June 12 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 1982
to 1998. INLG'2000 will offer the opportunity to a larger audience to
participate in the main meeting of researchers in the field.
Main 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, and information retrieval techniques to summarization
Location
Following the tradition of previous INLG meetings, the conference will
be held in an isolated and stunning natural environment: the
Ramon Inn hotel, in Mitzpe Ramon,
Israel. The hotel
is located on the edge of the Ramon Crater, in the middle of the
Negev Desert.
Excursions in the Negev, to Eilat and to
Jerusalem will be planned during and after the conference.
Local Arrangements
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Last modified October 21, 1999