natural language generation

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - 4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2019
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Please note that we are extending the deadline for submissions to the SwissText Conference for all tracks to 10.3.2019, 23:59 (AOE - anywhere on Earth).

For more information, please visit https://www.swisstext.org/call-for-presentations/

The goal of this workshop is to discuss new methods for language generation that address some of the recurring problems in existing language generation techniques (eg. bland, repetitive language) as well as novel techniques for robustly evaluating and interpreting model output.

We are accepting papers in the following areas:

- Novel architectures and new approaches to training models:
Beyond maximum likelihood training (eg: risk loss, reinforcement learning objectives, variational approaches, adversarial training, pretrained discriminators, other novel loss functions), unsupervised, weakly supervised, and semi-supervised language generation, editing models, mixing neural and template-based generation, human-in-the-loop learning, beyond teacher-forcing (beam search during training, non-autoregressive generation).

- Evaluation:
New automatic metrics for evaluating different characteristics of coherent language, evaluation using pretrained models, proposing better human evaluation strategies.

- Generalization:
Transfer learning (unsupervised pre-training for generation, low-resource generation, domain adaptation), multi-task learning, model distillation.

- Analysis:
Model analysis, interpretability and/or visualizations, error analysis of machine-generated language, analysis of evaluation metrics, benefits/drawbacks of different loss functions.

SIGNLL, the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning, invites you to submit your papers to CoNLL 2018 (October 31 – November 1, 2018) in Brussels, Belgium.

Topics
We invite the submission of papers on all aspects of computational approaches to natural language learning, including, but not limited to:

Call for Workshop Proposals @ INLG 2018

Call for Workshop Proposals

For the third time since its inception, the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) will this year include independently organised workshops. These will take place after or immediately prior to the main conference (November 4 or 8).

The INLG organisers invite further proposals for one-day or half-day workshops at INLG 2018.

Final Call for papers: Workshop “Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics” (CoMPrag2018)

The workshop “Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics” will take place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on September 26-28, 2018.

Natural Language Generation (NLG) is in the ascendant both as a stand-alone data-to-text or text-to-text task and as part of downstream applications (see, e.g., abstractive summarization, dialogue-based interaction, question answering, etc.). Only in 2017, three “deep” NLG shared tasks that focused on language generation from abstract semantic representations have been organized: WebNLG, SemEval Task 9 , E2E.

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Important dates
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Apr 23, 2018 (11:59 PM GMT -12:00.) : Workshop papers due
May 7, 2018 : Notification of acceptance
May 28, 2018 : Camera-ready papers due
Jul 19, 2018 : Workshop date

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Submissions
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We invite full papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages); long and short papers have unlimited references.

Call for papers
Special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS)
Journal of Dialogue & Discourse

INLG 2018 -- Call for bids
Deadline for Proposals: 30 October 2017

SIGGEN (The Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation of the Association for Computational Linguistics) invites proposals to organise and/or chair the International Natural Language Generation (INLG) Conference in 2018. This year, we are inviting proposals for two distinct roles: hosting and chairing. Proposals may cover either one of these, or both.

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SigDial 2017 Special Session:
Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
First Call for Papers
Paper Submission: 18th April 2017
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
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