9th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
INLG 2016
Location: 
Monday, 5 September 2016 to Thursday, 8 September 2016
State: 
Country: 
Scotland
City: 
Edinburgh
Contact: 
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 23 May 2016

With apologies for multiple postings.

9th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2016)

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Dates: 5-8 September 2016

Website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

Submissions deadline *extended*: 23 May 2016

NEW: Best paper awards for the best long and short papers.

The Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation is pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2016) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland from 5-8 September. The first two days (5-6 September 2016) will consist of workshops, tutorial and a hackathon and the final two days (7-8 September 2016) will be the main conference.

Keynote Speakers:

• Yejin Choi (University of Washington)

▪ Vera Demberg (Saarland University)

Workshops:

• 2nd International Workshop on NLG and the Semantic Web (WebNLG): http://webnlg2016.sciencesconf.org

▪ Workshop on Computational Creativity in Language Generation: TBA

Tutorial:

▪ Tutorial on Deep Learning for NLG by Tsung-Hsien Wen (University of Cambridge):http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~thw28/

Hackathon:

▪ The first SIGGEN Hackathon (Yaji Sripada and David Howcroft). Please fill out the questionnaire! http://goo.gl/forms/pkdDkUEpqr

Special Session:

▪ Generation Challenges (GenChal): Shared task proposals http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/index.html#

For the main conference, we invite substantial, original, and unpublished submissions on all topics related to natural language generation.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Affect / emotion generation

Applications for people with disabilities

Cognitive modeling of language generation

Content and text planning

Data-to-text generation

Evaluation of NLG systems

Grounded language generation

Lexicalisation

Multimedia generation

Multimodality in generation

Storytelling and narrative generation

NLG and accessibility

NLG in dialogue

NLG for embodied agents and robots

NLG for real-world applications

NLG in linguistically motivated frameworks

Paraphrase generation

Personalization and personality of text

Psycholinguistics and NLG

Referring expression generation

Rule-based approaches to generation

Statistical approaches to generation

Comparisons between rule-based and statistical approaches to NLG

Surface realization

Text-to-text generation and summarisation

Requirements

A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2016 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submission to other conferences should be clearly indicated on the paper.

Paper Categories

INLG 2016 has three submission categories, long and short papers, and demos:

Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references. These will be orally presented. Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, including references. These may be presented orally or as posters. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Demo papers will be included in the proceedings. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2016.

Important Dates

Long/Short Paper and Demo Submission: Friday 16 May 2016

Notification: Thursday 30 June 2016

Camera-ready: Friday 29 July 2016

Conference: Monday-Thursday 5-8 September 2016

Organizing Committee

General Chairs: Amy Isard, Verena Rieser, Dimitra Gkatzia

Local Chairs: Simon Keizer

Workshops Chair: Albert Gatt

Tutorial Chair: Claire Gardent

Contact: inlg2016 [at] googlegroups.com