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ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

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Welcome to the home page of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation. SIGGEN [ˈsɪɡ.ʤɛn] is a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation.

What is Natural Language Generation?

Natural language generation (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Good sources to learn about NLG include

Resources

Natural Language Generation Portal

Upcoming Events

INLG 2020 takes place online 15-18 Dec.

There is a special issue of Computer Speech and language on NLG.

INLG 2021 will be hosted by Aberdeen in September, either physical or online, with an anticipated submission deadline in May.

Mailing List

Joining the mailing list:

The SIGGEN mailing list is currently going through a transition.
To sign up, view preferences, change preferences, or unsubscribe, go to:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN
If there are any issues, e-mail: siggen-webmaster (ta) aclweb (dot) org.

Posting messages to the mailing list

Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org to post e-mails to the list.

Recent Events

2020 SIGGEN supported events:

INLG 2019 was held in Tokyo, Japan, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019. Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:


INLG 2018 was held at Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 November 2018. Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:


INLG 2017 was held at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017. Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:


INLG 2016 was held at Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016. Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

Board

The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2020


To contact the entire board, please use the email alias: siggen-board (ta) aclweb (dot) org.

It is worth noting that the call for nominations previous to elections in 2020 is now open.

Workshop Proceedings

Archive

Constitution