INLG 2012: invited speakers, updated CFP, submission information for long and short papers (deadline Feb 10, 2012)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
INLG 2012
Location: 
Starved Rock State Park
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 to Friday, 1 June 2012
State: 
IL
Country: 
USA
City: 
Utica
Contact: 
Barbara Di Eugenio
Susan McRoy
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 10 February 2012

INLG 2012, the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL, May 30-June 1, 2012.

Further details on the program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the full program
committee is now available at the conference web site

http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/

Highlights:

1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University

2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/

Long/short paper submission deadline: Feb 10, 2012 (Fri)
Demo submission deadline: Mar 7, 2012 (Weds)
Notification of acceptance (all types): Mar 28, 2012 (Weds)
Final paper submission (all types): Apr 22, 2012 (Sun)

3. Active topics of interest include:

Affect/emotion generation
Architecture of generators
Content planning
Discourse models
Embodied generation
Evaluation of NLG systems
Generation and summarization
Lexicalization
Multilingual NLG
Multimedia or multimodal generation
NLG for real-world applications
NLG in linguistically motivated frameworks
Planning and NLG
Question Generation
Referring expression generation
Statistical processing for NLG
Surface realization
Use of ontologies in NLG

Barbara Di Eugenio and Susan McRoy
Co-Chairs, INLG 2012