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<h1>ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation </h1>

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Active topics of interest include:

*Discourse models, content planning.
*Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.
*Architecture of generators.
*Lexical choice.
*Psychological modelling of discourse production.
*Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.
*Multilingual or multi-modal generation.
*Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).
*Learning methods.
*Evaluation of generation results.

Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:

*Grammar theory
*Statistical methods
*Speech synthesis
*Psycholinguistics
*Neuroscience
*Philosophy

== Upcoming Events ==

INLG 2019 will be in Tokyo, probably at the end of Oct or beginning of Nov (just before [https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/ EMNLP]). Follow [https://twitter.com/INLG2019 @INLG2019] on Twitter for up-to-date information and announcements.

== Recent Events ==

[https://www.inlg2019.com/ INLG 2019]

Tokyo, Japan, 29 October - 1 November 2019

[https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/ INLG 2018]

Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 Novemeber 2018

[https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/ INLG 2017]

Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017

[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/ INLG 2016]

Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016

== Mailing List ==
=== Joining the mailing list: ===

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=== Posting messages to the mailing list ===

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== Board ==
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

*[https://ehudreiter.com/ Ehud Reiter] ([mailto:e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk mail]) [https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/e.reiter/ Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen] and also Chief Scientist of [https://www.arria.com Arria NLG]. ([mailto:siggen-chair(ta)aclweb(dot)org chair])
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
*[https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com Dimitra Gkatzia] ([mailto:d.gkatzia@napier.ac.uk mail]) [http://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools/school-of-computing/staff School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University], Edinburgh.
:elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
*[http://amandastent.com// Amanda Stent] ([mailto:amanda.stent@gmail.com mail]), Bloomberg LP ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(ta)aclweb(dot)org treasurer])
:elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
*[https://citius.usc.es/equipo/investigadores-postdoutorais/jose-maria-alonso-moral Jose M. Alonso] ([mailto:josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es]) [https://citius.usc.es/equipo/investigadores-postdoutorais/jose-maria-alonso-moral University of Santiago de Compostela], Spain (secretary)
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
*[https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/students/amanda-cercas-curry Amanda Curry] ([mailto:ac293@hw.ac.uk mail]) [https://www.hw.ac.uk/ School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University] (student member)
: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'''.

== [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/siggen.html Workshop Proceedings ] ==

== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: Newsletter Archive|Newsletter Archive]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: Constitution|Constitution]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG|Who's Who in NLG]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: What's Where in NLG|What's Where in NLG]] ==

== Resources ==
[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Portal]]

SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG

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===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://aass.oru.se/~hbe/ Hadi Banaee], [https://www.oru.se/ Örebro Universit], Sweden
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
*[mailto:cbarros-@-dlsi.ua.es Cristina Barros], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.napier.ac.uk/ Edinburgh Napier University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali-@-loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hh117/ Helen Hastie], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald-@-thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA

===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~elloret/ Elena Lloret],[http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
*[mailto:mvicente-@-dlsi.ua.es Marta Vicente], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
*[mailto:cbarros-@-dlsi.ua.es Cristina Barros], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.napier.ac.uk/ Edinburgh Napier University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali-@-loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hh117/ Helen Hastie], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald-@-thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA

===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~elloret/ Elena Lloret],[http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
*[mailto:mvicente-@-dlsi.ua.es Marta Vicente], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG

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===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
*[mailto:cbarros-@-dlsi.ua.es Cristina Barros], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.napier.ac.uk/ Edinburgh Napier University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali-@-loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald-@-thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA
===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~elloret/ Elena Lloret],[http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
*[mailto:mvicente-@-dlsi.ua.es Marta Vicente], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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*[http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/ The Linguist List Personal Pages of Linguists]
*[http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=People Who's who in NLP/CL in the ACL Wiki]

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==2005==

===Issue 1===

SIGGEN Newsletter

www.siggen.org

Date: 05 June 2005

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TOPICS:

1. INF: Recent SIGGEN updates; board election, state of SIGGEN

2. CfB: Call for Bids for INLG'06

3. CfP: EWNLG'05 in Aberdeen [Early Registration by June 17]

4. CfP: Symposium on Dialog Modeling and Generation [July 7]

5. CfP: Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation [July 14]

6. TUT: Statistical Machine Translation and Generation [Aug. 11]

7. JOB: Postdoctoral Position in Adaptive Spoken Language, NY

8. JOB: Research Fellow/PostDoc, Aberdeen

9. Stu: Funded Studentship, Aberdeen

10. ANN: Surge 2.3 now available

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|SIGGEN Board Members:||
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|Tilman Becker ||Tilman.Becker(at)dfki(dot)de
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|Charles Callaway ||ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
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|Irene Langkilde-Geary ||irenelg(at)cs(dot)byu(dot)edu
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|David McDonald ||dmcdonald(at)bbn(dot)com
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|David Reitter ||dreitter(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

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TOPIC 1: Recent SIGGEN updates; board election, state of SIGGEN

Dear SIGGEN members,

Tilman Becker, the last remaining member from the previous SIGGEN
board, has been joined by the 4 new board members from this winter's
election: Charles Callaway, Irene Langkilde-Geary, David McDonald, and
student representative Dave Reitter.

As mentioned before, the website has been moved to www.siggen.org,
(change your bookmarks!) hosted at DFKI, and has been updated, most
significantly in regards to the membership on the Who's who page.
This page, which now lists 145 members, has been revamped to ensure
that all links are valid. If you, or someone you know, would like to
be added to this list, please don't hesitate to email us. The mailing
list has been similarly checked to ensure valid email addresses, and
now contains 209 members. This means that those who do not receive
copies of this newsletter are not currently on the email list, not
considered to be members, and thus cannot vote in future elections.
(A copy of the current SIGGEN constitution is located at:
http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/constitution_v2.html)

Your board members will be attending a wide array of conferences this
summer, so if you see us, please don't hesitate to talk to us, or of
course send us email. We will quickly respond to any suggestions or
comments you may have.

-- The SIGGEN Board

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TOPIC 2: SIGGEN: Call for Bids to Host INLG-2006

http://www.siggen.org/event/bidinlg06.html

SIGGEN (Special Interest Group in Generation of the Association for
Computational Linguistics) invites proposals to host the International
Natural Language Generation (INLG) Conference in 2006. INLG
conferences are usually held in the summer, and sometimes co-located
with other NLP events, such as ACL. INLG attendance is usually on the
order of 80 people (that is, more than 50 and less than 120).

As INLG-2004 was in the ACL European region, we especially welcome and
will prefer proposals for holding INLG-2006 in the ACL Americas or
Asia/Pacific regions.

Draft proposals should be emailed to ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk by 30 Sept
2005.

These proposals should outline:

* conference location and practicalities (venue, accomodation,
meals). Note that INLG's have traditionally been held in places
which are secluded but easily accessible (within a few hours drive
of a major international airport), such as Brighton, UK (2004);
mid-State New York (2002); Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (2000);
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada (1998); Hertsmonceux Castle, UK
(1996); and Kennebunkport, USA (1994).

* approximate conference date. Will it be possible for INLG
attendees to combine attendance at INLG with attendance at other
conferences of interest to the NLG community (for example, INLG-02
immediately preceded ACL-02, INLG-98 immediately preceded ACL-98,
and INLG-92 immediately followed ANLP-92).

* rough budget and expected sponsorship. Approximately how much will
participants need to pay to attend, including accomodation and
meals as well as conference registration? Note that attendance
cost for previous INLG's has generally been US$500 or less.

* local arrangements. Who will be in charge of organising the
conference, and how will finances be handled (eg, can participants
pay by credit card)?

Draft proposals will be considered by a committee that includes some
SIGGEN board members and previous INLG chairs. This committee may
contact proposers and request additional information.

For more information, see:

 * http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04/ for information about INLG-2004. 

* http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ for information about INLG-2002. 

* http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/bids/ for draft bids for ACL-01 (a
bit different from INLG draft bids, but useful as examples). 

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TOPIC 3: EWNLG'05 in Aberdeen [Early Registration by June 17]

 Call for Participation

8-10 August 2005 Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

 Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language
processing that focuses on the generation of written texts in natural
languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of
information, generally from databases or knowledge
sources. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of
different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual
reports, summaries, machine translation, dialogue applications, and
embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the
automated production of language is associated with a large number of
highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality
poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues
include content selection, text organization, production of referring
expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as
well as coordination with other media.

 The workshop continues a biennial series of workshops on natural
language generation that has been running since 1987. Previous
European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein,
Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, Toulouse (2001) and Budapest (2003). The
series provides a regular forum for presentation of research in this
area, both for NLG specialists and for researchers who may not think
of themselves as part of the NLG community.

 The 2005 workshop will span the interest areas of natural language
generation and Artificial Intelligence, with a special focus on
research that integrates NLG with AI, including vision, robotics,
intelligent agents, and knowledge discovery. We also encourage papers
that investigate the use of state-of-the-art generation technology in
real world applications to handle both spoken and text output, and
apply language generation techniques to interactive AI systems like
communicating robots, to allow the user to enter into short
conversations with the system in search for information. There will be
demonstrations of working NLG systems, and special sessions for
posters describing real-world applications and advanced language
technology systems.

 Papers will be presented on formal, corpus-based, implementational and
analytical work on conventional NLG topics (realisation,
microplanning, etc), and especially papers with a focus on the
following themes:

 * Embodied agents and robot communication (special track)

* NLG for real-world applications

* Use of ontologies in NLG

* Statistical methods for NLG

 * Information organization for planning and NLG

 * Robust methods and techniques for NLG

* Evaluation of NLG systems

Invited Speaker:

Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California) will give an invited talk on Tree Transducers for Machine
Translation and Generation

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TOPIC 4: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation

 Call for Participation

July 7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing
together the dialogue modelling and language generation/production
communities and will provide an opportunity for researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including linguistics, computer science and
psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas.

We invited talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in
dialogue modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003, and
many other recent papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig,
2003, and, again, many more) and the influence of social relations
between interlocutors on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal
work by Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and asked presenters to shed light
on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue modelling
by:

* relating them to issues in language generation/production or

* drawing out similarities and differences between applications of
such notions in discourse generation versus interpretation or

* describing computational/implemented models, in particular, for
generation/production or

* comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering approaches
to dialogue modelling. 

The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones that deal with
natural language interpretation or structural properties of discourse.

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TOPIC 5: Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation

Call for Participation

July 14, Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

We aim to bring together researchers who use corpora for NLG research
either in the traditional, manual way, or automatically, involving
machine learning and statistical methods. The goal of the workshop is
to present and discuss current research, to compare manual and
automatic corpus exploitation, to evaluate achievements, and to
identify challenges for the future.

Registration is open at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 website. Please
note that Using Corpora for NLG is a full-day workshop, and that you
do not need to register for the main conference. Simply select the
appropriate options in the registration form. The workshop
registration fee is 70 Pounds.

Papers will be presented on all aspects of using corpora for natural
language generation, including, but not limited to:

 * (Partial) automation of traditional corpus analysis for NLG

* Issues in annotating corpora for NLG

* Statistical approaches to deep and/or surface generation

* Machine learning methods for deep and/or surface generation

* Role of corpora in the evaluation of NLG systems

 * Reuse of resources developed for NLU (e.g. treebanks) in NLG

 * Domain-specific vs. general purpose corpora for NLG 

We would like to emphasise that where we say `NLG' we mean to include
the language generation components of machine translation and dialogue
systems.

Invited Speaker:

Irene Langkilde-Geary (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA) will give
an invited talk with the provisional title: Constraint programming as
a Whiteboard Architecture for Probabilistic NLG.

Panel on Exploiting Corpora for NLG:

We will hold a panel discussion on the topics of the workshop. The
panel members are:

Chris Brew, Linguistics, Ohio State University, USA

Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, USA

Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK

Donia Scott, CRC, Open University, UK

Bonnie Webber, Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

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TOPIC 6: Tutorial: Statistical Machine Translation and Generation

August 11, Aberdeen, Scotland (Immediately following EWNLG'05)

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/knight.html

Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA

The statistical approach to machine translation provides a set of
techniques for (1) automatically learning translation knowledge from
bilingual data, and (2) applying that knowledge to translate
previously-unseen sentences. When it was first introduced, statistical
MT was far too slow and inaccurate to be useful -- it was an
interesting lab experiment. In 2005, we see statistical MT
significantly outperforming other methods in many language pairs and
domains, at speeds permitting commercial applications like foreign
news broadcast translation. What made this possible? This tutorial
will cover the basic theory and the major technical advances of the
past few years. Of course, there is a long way to go! The tutorial
will also cover known limitations of current MT models and describe
current research trends. We will also discuss problems in natural
language generation, where the input is typically more abstract than
foreign text, and describe how statistical MT research is currently
exploiting linguistic categories.

This tutorial is free of charge. It is hosted by the Natural Language
Generation group at the University of Aberdeen. We are grateful for
the support of EPSRC grant EP/C523156/1 which has made this tutorial
possible.

If you are interested in attending this tutorial, please send an email
to ccameron(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk so that you can be allocated a place and
informed of any further developments. For more information, contact
Chris Mellish (cmellish(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk).

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TOPIC 7: Postdoctoral Position in Adaptive Spoken Language

StonyBrook, NY

The Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science Departments at Stony
Brook University are collaborating on an innovative project, funded by
the National Science Foundation: "Adaptive Spoken Dialog with Human
and Computer Partners." We seek a postdoctoral associate to
collaborate with us. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in
Psychology, Linguistics, or Computer Science, or a relevant
interdisciplinary field.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following:
experiment design, statistics, linguistic phonetics, computational
linguistics, speech processing, psycholinguistics techniques such as
eyetracking.

Depending on the candidate's background and qualifications, duties
will include:

1) Contributing to empirical (laboratory and corpus-based) studies of
language use (both comprehension and production). This involves
working with human subjects, designing experiments, collecting
data, and conducting detailed analyses of text and spoken corpora

2) Contributing to our efforts to model human language behavior and
test computational models using data.

3) Generating independent sub-projects relevant to project's research
questions.

4) Supervising graduate and undergraduate student researchers in
day-to-day activities across one or more projects conducted within
the PI's laboratories

5) Assisting with management of laboratory resources, such as ordering
equipment, software installation, etc.

6) Writing up results for publication

7) Traveling to conferences and workshops as appropriate

8) Developing expertise in relevant techniques and procedures that
span Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science

This is a full time position. The Research Foundation of SUNY is a
private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research
Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines, and
availability of funding. Projected start date: January 1, 2006
(flexible)

Application Procedure: Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled. More details about the project can be found at
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~adaptation/. Applications for the may be
submitted on-line at http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Admin/CampusJob.nsf
via the "Postdoctoral positions" link, or else submit a cover letter
and resume to:

Prof. Susan E. Brennan

Department of Psychology

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, New York 11794-2500

Fax: 631-632-7876

Stony Brook University, flagship campus of the S.U.N.Y. system, is a
world-class, student-centered research university located 60 miles
from New York City.

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TOPIC 8: Research Fellow/PostDoc: Towards a Unified Algorithm for the generation of referring expressions

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Applications due: July 15, 2005

Contact: Dr Kees van Deemter

kvdeemte(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk

Background:

Natural Language Generation programs generate text from an underlying
Knowledge Base. It can be difficult to find a mapping from the
information in the Knowledge Base to the words in a
sentence. Difficulties arise, for example, when the Knowledge Base
uses `names' (i.e., databases keys) that a hearer/reader does not
understand. This can happen, for instance, if the Knowledge Base
contains an artificial name like `#Jones083', because `Jones' alone is
not uniquely distinguishing; it is also true if the Knowledge Base
deals with entities for which no names at all are in common usage
(e.g., a specific tree or a chair). In all such cases, the program has
to "invent" a description that enables the reader to identify the
referent. In the case of Mr. Jones, for example, the program could
give his name and address; in the case of a tree, some longer
description may be necessary (e.g., `the green oak on the corner of
... and ...'. The technical term for this set of problems is
Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE). GRE is a key aspect of
almost any Natural Language Generation system.

Aims:

Existing GRE algorithms tend to focus on one particular class of
referring expressions, for example conjunctions of atomic or
relational properties (e.g., `the black dog', `the book on the
table'). Our research is aimed at designing and implementing a new
algorithm for the generation of referring expressions that generates
appropriate descriptions in a far greater variety of situations than
any of its predecessors. The algorithm will be more complete than its
predecessors because it is able to construct a greater variety of
descriptions (involving negations, disjunctions, relations, vagueness,
etc.). The descriptions generated should also be more appropriate
(i.e., more natural in the eyes of a human hearer/reader), because the
algorithm will be based on empirical studies involving corpora and
controlled experiments. Among other things, these empirical studies
will address the question under what circumstances the descriptions
should be logically under- or overspecific; they will also allow us to
prune the search space (i.e., the space of all descriptions) which
would otherwise threaten to make the problem intractible. The project
combines (psycho)linguistic, computational and logical challenges and
should be of interest to people whose intellectual home is in either
of these areas.

General Info:

http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/tuna/TUNA-index.html

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TOPIC 9: Funded Studentship: Managing Ambiguity in Generated Text

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Applications due: July 15, 2005
{|
|Contact: ||Dr Kees van Deemter
|-
| ||kvdeemte(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

General Info for prospective students at Aberdeen:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply5

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TOPIC 10: Surge 2.3 now available for download

{|
|Contact: ||Charles Callaway
|-
| ||ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

Surge 2.3, the latest version of the SURGE English grammar, has been
packaged for download at the following location. Improvements have
been made for written and spoken dialogue, XML and LATEX formatting,
punctuation, and additional coverage rules derived from the Penn
TreeBank. For use with FUF5.3.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/index-c.html

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==1999==

===Issue 2 (lost)===
===Issue 1 (lost)===
==1998==

===Issue 1===

Date: 25 Mar 1998

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TOPICS:

1. A: INLG Registration & Program [Act by May 1st 1998]

2. CFP: TAG+ Workshop [Philadelphia - Deadline Apr 15th 1998]

3. A: CSLU Spring Short Courses [Portland, OR - May 5 - May 18]

4. JOB: ITRI Brighton PhD Studentship [Apply by Apr 30, 1998]

5. CFP: COLING/ACL98 Discourse Relations Workshop [Deadline Apr 6]

6. CFP: Special issue NRHM Adaptivity and User Modeling [Deadline Jun 1]

7. CFP: Computational Treatment of Portuguese - Brazil [Deadline May 4]

8. A: KPML Mailing List

9. P: Diana McKinnie [Generating reports from dictated X-ray reports]

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TOPIC 1:

A: INLG Registration & Program [Act by May 1st 1998]

From: Graeme Hirst <gh(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>

9th International Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

 5-7 August 1998

Prince of Wales Hotel 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Preliminary details of the program and registration information and
forms are now available for the 9th biennial Workshop on Natural
Language Generation. 

This message gives basic information on participation. For full
information, please visit the INLG-98 Website:
 http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE:
The workshop will begin with an opening reception on the evening of
Tuesday 4 August, and end with lunch on Friday 7 August.

The program includes approximately 30 papers, demonstrations, and a
panel session to be presented over 2 1/2 days. (The complete list of
accepted papers is on the conference Web site.) 

In addition, the social program includes an outing to Niagara Falls
with dinner at the top of the Skylon Tower.

LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION:
The workshop will be held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, in the scenic
town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is easily accessible from Toronto
International Airport. See our Web page on transportation for details
of transfers to Niagara-on-the-Lake from Toronto International Airport,
on Buffalo Airport as an alternative, and for directions to
Niagara-on-the-Lake by car, bus, and train.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION:
A discount accommodation-and-meal package has been negotiated with the
Prince of Wales Hotel for the workshop. To get the discount, you must
book your accommodation on the conference registration form, which is
available from our Web site.

Registration paid by credit card will be accepted by e-mail and fax.

NOTE!!! Space at the workshop is limited. We will allocate space in
the order that registrations are received, except that a space will be
held for one author of each submitted paper (whether accepted or not)
until **1 May 1998**. If the workshop is oversubscribed before the
final June deadline, we will endeavour to find additional space, but
cannot promise to succeed nor that any space found will be as cheap as
the reserved space. Workshop registration and hotel reservations must
be received by **1 June 1998**. Any unassigned hotel rooms will be
released after this date. Late registrants will be accommodated only if
space is available, and will have to pay the hotel's full rack rates.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
We anticipate having funds to subsidize attendance at the workshop by
graduate students and unfunded researchers. Details should be known by
mid-April.

TOURISM:
See the INLG Web pages for links to information on tourism in the
Niagara region, Toronto, and Montreal.

TRANSPORTATION TO MONTREAL FOR COLING:
The workshop is to be held in the week immediately prior to the joint
conference of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998).
After the workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend
COLING / ACL directly to the Toronto train station for an express
train to Montreal.

WORKSHOP SPONSOR AND ORGANIZERS:
The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University of
Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General enquiries concerning registration and accommodation:

Jean Webster, University of Waterloo

jrwebster(at)icr(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca 

phone +1 519-888-4567 extension 5076.

General workshop questions:
Chrysanne DiMarco, University of Waterloo
cdimarco(at)logos(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca
 phone +1 519 888 4443

For more information, program, and registration forms, visit the
INLG-98 Website:
http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

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TOPIC 2:

CFP: TAG+ Workshop [Philadelphia - Deadline Apr 15th 1998]

From: Jennifer MacDougall <jmacdoug(at)central(dot)cis(dot)upenn(dot)edu>

<center>TAG+ WORKSHOP -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

August 1 to August 3, 1998

TAG TUTORIALS -- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

July 28 to July 31, 1998

Philadelphia, PA, USA
URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html</center>

The fourth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks
(hence the + after TAG) will be held at the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in August 1998,
from August 1 to August 3. Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl
(1990), UPenn (1992), and Univ. Paris 7 (1994).

Papers on all aspects of TAG (linguistic, mathematical, computational,
and applicational), as well as papers relating TAGs to other
frameworks, are invited. As in the past there will be some invited
talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships
to TAGs (for example, Categorial Grammars and HPSG).

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts should be at most two pages (exclusive of references), and
should be submitted in ASCII format, as a .ps file, or as SELF-CONTAINED latex file to jmacdoug (at) central (dot) cis (dot) upenn (dot) edu. (If email
is not available, please send the abstract to the address given
below.) Please indicate on the abstract if you would prefer to give a
short presentation (10 minutes) or a long one (30 minutes). The
abstract should contain your name, address, and email address.
Proceedings including extended versions (4 pages) of accepted
abstracts will be available at the workshop.

{|
|Deadline for submission for abstracts: || April 15
|-
|Notification of acceptance: || May 15
|-
|Deadline for submission of camera-ready||
|-
|extended abstract:|| July 6
|-
|Workshop Dates: || August 1 to August 3
|}

If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we
would appreciate it if you could inform us by email by July 6 (unless
you have already done so). If you would like to present a demo,
please let us know as soon as possible, including information about
required hard and software.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeille (Universit'e Paris 7)

Tilman Becker (DFKI)

Christy Doran (University of Pennsylvania)

Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University)

Klaus Netter (DFKI)

Richard Oehrle (University of Arizona)

Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)

Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)

Yuka Tateisi (University of Tokyo)

K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)

David Weir (University of Sussex)

CONTACT ADDRESS:

Jennifer MacDougall

553 Moore Building

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

USA

Telephone: (215) 898-3191

FAX: (215) 898-0587

Email: jmacdoug (at) central (dot) cis (dot) upenn (dot) edu

TUTORIAL:

Prior to the workshop there will be a tutorial (including labs and
demos) from July 28 to July 31 1998. Details about the tutorial will
be sent out soon. We are trying to get some partial support for some
of the students attending the tutorials. If you may be interested in
attending this tutorial, please contact Jennifer MacDougall at the
address above (preferably by email) and we will send you more
information. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeille (Paris 7)

Tilman Becker (DFKI)

Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)

Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)

K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)

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TOPIC 3:

A: CSLU Spring Short Courses [Portland, OR - May 5 - May 18]

From: "Terri Durham" <durham(at)cse(dot)ogi(dot)edu>

Institute in Portland, Oregon will be giving two spring short courses in May
to coincide with the ICASSP '98 Conference in Seattle Washington.

Please visit our web page for a full description of each course and to fill
out your registration form. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/shortcourse2/

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to give me a call.

Thank You,

Terri Durham

CSLU Center Administrator

PO Box 91000 Portland, OR. 97291

20000 NW Walker Rd., Beaverton, OR. 97006

Phone: 503-690-1630 // Fax: 503-690-1306

May 5-8th Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Instructors:

Paul Taylor

Center for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh

Alan Black

Center for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh

Michael Macon

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

May 18-22 Building Spoken Dialogue Systems

Instructors:

Stephen Sutton

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

Teaching Assistants:

Andrew Cronk

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

Ed Kaiser

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

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TOPIC 4:
JOB: ITRI Brighton PhD Studentship [Apply by Apr 30, 1998]

From: postgrad-admissions(at)itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk

<center> Information Technology Research Institute

University of Brighton

PhD Studentship for October 1998</center>

Application deadline: 30 April 1998

The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) invites
applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence
in October 1998. The studentship will be awarded in one (or more)
of the following topics in Computational Linguistics:

DOCUMENT GENERATION (including TEXT GENERATION): architectures;
corpus analysis; diagrammatic reasoning; discourse; evaluation;
hybrid generation; implementation; layout; multilinguality;
multimodality; representation languages; pragmatics; tools

LEXICONS: corpus analysis; evaluation; lexical statistics;
lexicalized grammars; lexicography; lexicon induction from text;
multilinguality; representation; tools; tuning; word sense
disambiguation

NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES: dialogue; interface design

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics.

EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents
of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other
EU residents are only eligible for fees (and so would need to be
able to support themselves during their studies).

The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently
approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general
information on EPSRC studentships, please consult
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm.

Further information on the Institute's research programme can be
found on the ITRI home page (http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk) and
information about students and how to apply on our research
students page (http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/students).

If we already have your application on file for consideration this
year, you do not need to apply again.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 1998

For additional advice and information, please contact:

Ms. Vivienne Wicks, Research Administrator
Information Technology Research Institute
 University of Brighton
Lewes Rd.
Brighton
BN2 4GJ, UK

Email: postgrad-admissions (at) itri (dot) brighton (dot) ac (dot) uk
Tel: +44 1273 642900
Fax: +44 1273 642908

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TOPIC 5:

CFP: COLING/ACL98 Discourse Relations Workshop [Deadline Apr 6]

From: <stede(at)cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de>

<center>Coling-ACL '98 workshop</center>

<center> "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers”</center>

<center> August 15, 1998</center>

<center> Universit� de Montr�al</center>

<center>Montr�al/Canada</center>

(See also: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html)

The notion of discourse relation has received many different
interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one
another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that
intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and
that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including
so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and
other markers.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on
discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic
traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the
workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of
linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one
or more of the following questions:

o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers
(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?

o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with
potential realizations?

o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled?
Are there any that are never lexically signalled?

o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to
signal a relation?

o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at
all?

o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate
signals for a given relation?

o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other
decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph
structure)?

o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations
from surface cues?

o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as
"and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?

o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for
both analysis and production?

o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the
entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization
decision? What features would one like to have handy in a
representation so that choices can be made easily?

o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and
written language?

o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above
issues?

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)
Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)

Requirements for submission

 Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.
Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the
text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11
to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by
ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty Papers
can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or
as hardcopies.

Submissions from North America should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

hovy (at) isi (dot) edu

Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following:

{|
|Manfred Stede || Leo Wanner
|-
|TU Berlin ||Computer Science Department
|-
|KIT Project Group || Intelligent Systems Group
|-
|Sekr. FR 6-10 ||University of Stuttgart
|-
|Franklinstr. 28/29 || Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
|-
|D-10587 Berlin || D-70565 Stuttgart
|-
|Germany || Germany
|-
|stede(at)cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de || wannerlo(at)informatik(dot)uni-stuttgart(dot)de
|}

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: April 6, 1998

Deadline for hardcopy submissions: April 9 (arrival date)

Notification of acceptance: May 25, 1998

Final manuscripts due: June 15, 1998

Program committee

{|
|||Sandra Carberry (U Delaware)
|-
| || Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh)
|-
| || Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI)
|-
| || Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh)
|-
| || Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh)
|-
| || Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.)
|-
| || Ted Sanders (U Utrecht)
|-
| || Donia Scott (U Brighton)
|-
| || Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg)
|-
| || Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
|-
| || Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College)
|-
| || Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs)
|-
| || Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart)
|}

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TOPIC 6:

CFP: Special issue NRHM Adaptivity and User Modeling [Deadline Jun 1]

From: Maria Milosavljevic <mariam(at)alba.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU>

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

1998 call for submissions on the themes of 'adaptivity and user modeling
in hypertext/hypermedia systems', and 'hypermedia for museums and
cultural heritage’.

NRHM (previously Hypermedia, one of the original journals on the subject)
is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. The new editorial team has introduced themed
issues, each issue (normally 10-12 papers) will review and explore one or
two topical themes from a variety of perspectives. The main theme of the
1997 issue was the evaluation of hypermedia and multimedia systems.

The themes for the 1998 issue of the New Review will be:

- hypermedia for museums and cultural heritage
Theme editors Douglas Tudhope and Daniel Cunliffe

- adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems:
Guest editors Peter Brusilovsky and Maria Milosavljevic (also see
Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia Home Page
http://www.education.uts.edu.au/projects/ah/index.html)

Papers should be submitted to the appropriate theme editors no later than
June 1st 1998. For Instructions to Authors, see
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/ or contact the Editor.

Submissions are welcomed on all aspects of the two themes, including but
not restricted to:

Adaptive hypermedia
{|
||| user modeling in adaptive hypermedia
|-
| ||adaptive educational hypermedia systems
|-
| ||adaptive information systems
|-
| ||adaptive museum hypermedia
|-
| ||adaptive navigation support
|-
| ||natural language techniques for dynamic hypertext generation
|-
| || adaptive WWW navigation aids
|-
| ||adaptive visualization of hypertext structure
|-
| || empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia
|-
| ||content adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia
|-
| ||personalized information spaces
|-
| || adaptivity and adaptability in a hypermedia context
|-
| ||adaptive information retrieval
|}

Guest editors

Peter Brusilovsky - plb (at) cs (dot) cmu (dot) edu

School of Computer Science,

Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA 15213,

USA.

Maria Milosavljevic - mariam (at) mpce (dot) mq (dot) edu (dot) au

MRI Language Technology Group,

Macquarie University,

Sydney, NSW 2109,

Australia.

Hypermedia for Museums and Cultural heritage
{|

| || hypermedia link services
|-
| ||networked access

|-
| ||time-varying interactive presentations

|-
| ||image, audio and video databases

|-
| || navigation design

|-
| ||intelligent hypermedia and agents

|-
| ||web-based museum hypermedia

|-
| ||spatial and temporal models

|-
| ||evaluation and studies of use

|-
| || metadata and intellectual access

|-
| ||thesauri and semantic representations

|-
| ||copyright /IPR for digital multimedia standards
|}

Editor

Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope (at) glamorgan (dot) ac (dot) uk

Department of Computer Studies

University of Glamorgan

Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL

Wales, UK

fax +1443-482715

tel +1443-482271

Associate Editor (US) Andrew Dillon - adillon (at) ucs (dot) indiana (dot) edu

Associate Editor (UK) Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif (at) glamorgan (dot) ac (dot) uk

For subscription information, contact

Taylor Graham Publishing, 500 Chesham House,

150 Regent Street, London W1R 5FA, UK.

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TOPIC 7:

CFP: Computational Treatment of Portuguese - Brazil [Deadline May 4]

From: lucia (at) dc(dot) ufscar(dot) br (Lucia Rino)

III PROPOR

WORKSHOP ON THE COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT OF THE

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

November 3-4, 1998

PUCRS Campus

Porto Alegre - RS

BRAZIL

Sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)

Organized by the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Along with the XIV SBIA'98 (Artificial Inteligence Brazilian Symposium), to
be held in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in the PUCRS Campus between 04 and 06
of November, 1998, there will be carried out the III PROPOR - III WORKSHOP
ON THE COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE - on the 3rd and 4th of November, 1998.

The former two PROPOR workshops occurred in Portugal and in Brazil,
respectively in Feb/1993 and Oct/1996. The third one intends to bring
together researchers working on Computational Linguistics, specially those
whose work is in any sense related to the processing of the Portuguese
language. The main goals of the workshop are to provide the means for the
researchers to exchange information and to explore and discuss the
availability of resources to solve problems related to Natural Language,
having Portuguese as the central language. Contributions should address one
or more of the following topics:

* The automatic interpretation of the Portuguese language

* The automatic generation of the Portuguese language

* Verbal discourse processing: problems and resources of the Portuguese language

* Differences and similarities between the treatment of spoken and written Portuguese

The above topics naturally include a broader discussion on Natural Language
Processing as such, and other issues in the Computational Linguistics
spectrum. Researchers are invited to submit articles or demoes, in order to
integrate, and exchange, experiences with the participants during the
event.

Workshop organization
The workshop will consist of technical pannels, conference and discussion
sessions. Participants are also invited to present demoes and systems
resulting from project and development of software.

Requirements for submission

Papers and software are invited that address any of the topics listed
above, preference given to conclusive work. Work reporting ongoing MsC or
PhD research can be submitted to the Workshop of Unconcluded Dissertations
and Theses, which is held along with SBIA'98. In this case, submission
requirements can be found in the following address:

http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~flavio/sbia98/sbia98.html.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Technical papers and software descriptions: May 04, 1998 (mailing date)

Notification of acceptance: July 01, 1998 (by email)

=46inal manuscripts due: August 15, 1998 (mailing date)

No electronic submission will be accepted.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Manuscripts must be written either in Portuguese or in English. Please use
A4 letter format, doubleline spacing, classical fonts such as Times Roman
or Computer Modern, 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and
title. Maximum length is 15 pages including figures and references. Small
caps or figures must be avoided, since the manuscripts may be reduced for
the proceedings. The content of the first page must include the title of
the article, the author(s) fullname(s), institution of origin, address, and
a summary of the work. Faxed or emailed work will not be accepted for
revision. Software descriptions must contain title, goals and a short
characterization, besides the names of the authors, their institution of
origin and address, and the specification of software/hardware needs for
demoes.

=46our hardcopy copies of both, technical papers or software descriptions,
must be accompanied by a letter of submission containing the title of the
work, authors, and the name of the contact person. Submissions should be
sent to:

<center> Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima</center>

<center>Instituto de Informatica -PUCRS</center>

<center> Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - Pr=E9dio 16 - Sala 160</center>

<center>CEP 90619-900 Porto Alegre Brasil</center>

<center> E-mail: vera (at) andros(dot)inf(dot)pucrs(dot)br</center>

Organizing committee
{|
| ||Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima (PUCRS)

|-
| ||Flavio Moreira de Oliveira (PUCRS)

|-
| ||Rosa Maria Viccari (UFRGS)</center>
|}

Program committee
{|
| ||Ariadne M. B. R. Carvalho (IC-UNICAMP)
|-
| || Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza (DI-PUCRJ)

|-
| ||Elisabete Ranchhod (FL-UL)

|-
| ||Isabel Trancoso (INESC)

|-
| ||Jacques Robin (DI-UFPe)

|-
| ||Jos=E9 Gabriel Pereira Lopes (FCT-UNL)

|-
| || Laura S. Garcia (CEFET-PR)

|-
| ||L=FAcia Machado Rino (DC-UFSCar)

|-
| || Mike Dillinger (IL-UFMG)

|-
| ||Raul S. Wazlawick (DI-UFSC)

|-
| ||Rosa Maria Viccari (II-UFRGS)

|-
| || Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima(II-PUCRS)
|}

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TOPIC 8:

A: KPML Mailing List

From: Elke Teich <elke(at)dude(dot)uni-sb(dot)de>

<center> Announcing the KPML mailing list</center>

KPML (Komet-Penman MultiLingual) is a grammar development environment
for Systemic Functional Grammars and a sentence generator for English,
German,
Dutch and a few other languages. The system was developed at the
Institute
for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) of the
German
National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Darmstadt,
Germany (http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/IPSI/index.html) and is now being
further developed at the Center for Language and Communication
research at the University of Stirling, UK
(http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication).

KPML is based on the Penman system for generation of English sentences
originally developed at the Information Sciences Institute, University
of Southern California.

Added functionalities include

- multilinguality

- facilities for versioning and back-up for large-scale grammar resources

- graphic-based grammar writing tools

- graphic-based grammar exploration tools

- tools for preparing teaching materials

- specialized example and test suite management tools.

KPML has been used in a number of projects and is currently one of the
most popular platforms for developing grammars for generation. Users
of the system currently develop generation grammars for languages as
diverse as English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Finnish, Greek,
Czech, Russian and Bulgarian. More information about KPML can be
found at

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/

including the requirements for installing the system, downloading the
system, documentation etc.

You might also want to have a look at a sample generated document where

the text parts are generated with KPML:

 http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/kometpave-pics-96.html

Other relevant pages:

KPML basic:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/kpml.html

KPML documentation (online):

http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/kpml-1-doc/kpml.html

KPML documentation (downloadable hardcopy):

file://ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de/pub/komet/KPML-1.0/

The Grammar Exploration Tool:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/Grexplorer/grexplorer.html

The generation grammar bank:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/generation-bank.html

This mailing list offers users of KPML the opportunity of exchanging
information, seeking and giving advice in issues of linguistic
specification and computational implementation, announcing and making
available add-on functionalities and new resources etc. The list is
managed by the department of English Linguistics, Institute of Applied
Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting of the University of the
Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany
(http://www.uni-sb.de/~sl16eset/elke.html).

 Subscribe NOW and keep in touch!

To subscribe send e-mail to

 elke(at)dude(dot)uni-sb(dot)de

by putting 'subscribe MY-E-MAIL-ADDRESS' in the subject field.

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TOPIC 9:

P: Diana McKinnie [Generating reports from dictated X-ray reports]

From: Diana McKinnie <LDDMCKIN(at)ihc(dot)com>

I am a PhD student in the Medical Informatics program at the University of
Utah. My project deals with generating natural language reports from
parsed, dictated X-ray reports. I find the field of natural language
generation fascinating and frustrating. I look forward to talking to others
with the same fascinations and frustrations.

My e-mail address at the University is: d.mckinnie(at)m(dot)cc(dot)utah(dot)edu.

Thanks- Diana McKinnie

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==1997==

===Issue 3===
Date: 07 Dec 1997

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TOPICS:
1. Q: Evaluation of NL dialogue systems?

2. CFP: COLING-ACL 98 -- Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals -- Deadline: 31 Dec 97

3. CFP: Book -- Advances in Scalable Text Summarization Deadline: 30 Dec 97

4. CFP: ETAI -- Electronic Transactions on AI

5. CFP: TAPD'98 -- Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction Deadline: 12 Dec 97

6. CFP: SIGDAT'98 -- Very Large Corpora Deadline: 20 Apr 98

7. CFP: FOIS'98 -- Formal Ontology in Information Systems Deadline: 15 Dec 97

8. CFP: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers -- Coling/ACL'98 Deadline: 10 Mar 98

9. CFP: INLG'98 -- International Workshop on NL Generation Deadline: 28 Jan 98

10.JOB: ITRI, Brighton -- Research opportunities

11.JOB: ELRA/ELDA

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Topic 1: Q: Evaluation of NL dialogue systems?

From: "gas0" <GAS0(at)elvira(dot)ugr(dot)es>

Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado

Electronics and Computer Technology Dept.

University of Granada

18071 Granada, Spain

e-mail: gas0(at)elvira(dot)ugr(dot)es

Fax: +34-58-243230

Dear SIGGEN colleagues:

I am a PhD student and a researcher in the Department of
Electronics and Computer Technology at the University of
Granada. I am working on a natural language dialogue system
that aims to answer product orders and questions of clients
in fast-food restaurants. It may be considered a rule-based
expert system whose behaviour is decided from a recorded
dialogue corpus obtained at a real restaurant. The system is
quite developed at the moment, though it needs some improvement
to enhance the level of understanding and naturalness.

I would like to get information about the available evaluation
methods of such a system, as well as information about the
evaluation of natural language dialogue systems in general (used
techniques, bibliography, web sites, etc.).

In order to provide more information, I enclose a short abstract
about the system I am working on.

--- Abstract ----

The system goal is to simulate the restaurant-clerk behaviour. It
must be able to provide information and ask client questions
similarly to how a human clerk does. In addition we
want it to process spontaneous voiced-speech, which at a
linguistic level means to consider phenomena such as unnecessary
word repetition, grammatical order change, anaphora, discordances,
context information, grammatical mistakes, etc. We also expect a
learning ability for the system to allow new information (foods,
drinks, ingredients, etc.) acquisition from client interaction.

The basis for the system development is as follows:

- Unnecessary information in client utterance: Usually,
not all words in a sentence are necessary to obtain its semantic
interpretation, which can be achieved from meaning words only
(keywords). To obtain such interpretation, the system uses
keywords and a keyword lattice analysis. This analysis is carried
out by means of syntactic and semantic rules. From dialogue corpus
we found out that clients usually use a small number of words in
their utterances (communication client-clerk tends to be
telegram-like), therefore a system dictionary can be size-reduced.

- Use of a small number of patterns: Clients tend to communicate
using a small number of patterns to order products, ask questions,
or modify previous product orders. Using these patterns the system
can extract most semantic meanings from clients' utterances. In case
the meaning cannot be obtained, clients are asked to help the system
understanding process or to repeat the utterance input differently.

The system is a compound of several modules: Input Interface, Control
Module, Memory Module, Restaurant-product Knowledge Base, Lexicon, and
Output Interface.

At the moment the system takes about 30.000 C++ code lines. Its inputs
and outputs are natural language text sentences.

Its Input interface is well developed but still needs to define some
syntactic and semantic rules, since now only product orders and
questions are carried out.

We are about to start the Modification Module set up. This module
will be activated when the desire of modification of previous orders
is detected in client input.

Also, the Learning Module needs to be started. This module will be
activated when "possible" unknown foods, ingredients, drinks, etc.
are detected in client input. These new products will be learnt, so
they could be recognized the next time they appear in client
sentences.

The Natural Language Generator needs improvement to enhance the
expression power, though at the moment, the system can build
both syntactically and semantically right sentences, in a very
natural fashion, by using pronouns and context information available
at the moment of the natural language generation.

The system uses a graphic interface that now is useful but simple. In
future we would like to improve it by including product-pictures and
graphics of the "artificial" restaurant-clerk face, in order to
improve a friendly communication.

We think the integration of the system in a voice-controlled
response system represents its best application. To
do so, it would need a speech-to-text interface that
provides a text-word sequence from client voice. A text-to-speech
interface should transform the system output into synthesized voice.
Theoretically the whole system could be part of an
automatic front-end dialogue system for clients in restaurants,
or for those at home who use telephone for ordering.

--- End of Abstract ---

I do not know if this short abstract would be enough for you to
get an idea of the system, so in case you need any further
information, or in case you have any comment or remark, please
let me know.

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado

Electronics and Computer Technology Dept.

University of Granada

18071 Granada

Spain.

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Topic 2: CFP: COLING-ACL 98 -- Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals

From: pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk (Pete Whitelock)

<center>COLING-ACL '98</center>

<center>WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS</center>

<center> CALL FOR PROPOSALS</center>

<center>University of Montreal</center>

<center> Montreal</center>

<center> Quebec </center>

<center> Canada</center>

The Programme Commitee would like to receive proposals for tutorials
and workshops to be held in conjunction with the Joint COLING-ACL
Conference.

TUTORIALS

Tutorials will be held on Sunday 9th August, the day preceeding the
conference proper. Tutorials may address any topic of current or
possible future relevance to the field. The duration of each tutorial
should be approximately 3 hours. Those interested in presenting a
tutorial should send a 300-500 word proposal to Pete Whitelock,
pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk, describing the relevance of the subject matter to
the conference participants, an outline of the tutorial's content, and
a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of August,
immediately following the conference proper. Workshops will normally
be one day in length, but may extend to a second day if
required. Those interested in organising a workshop should send a
brief proposal to Pete Whitelock, pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk, describing the
topic of the workshop and its relevance to Coling, the approximate
number of participants expected and the likely duration of the
workshop, and a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience.

It is hoped that it will be possible to accomodate all proposals for
tutorials and workshops, but the room space available will place an
upper limit on the number. Since proposals will be accepted primarily
on a first-come first-served basis, proposers are encouraged to submit
as early as possible. Early submission is particularly important if
workshop presentations are to be refereed. In any event, no proposals
will be accepted after the final deadline of Dec 31st.

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Topic 3: CFP: Book -- Advances in Scalable Text Summarization

From: Inderjeet Mani <mani(at)azrael(dot)mitre(dot)org>

<center> CALL FOR PAPERS (BOOK)</center>

<center>ADVANCES IN SCALABLE TEXT SUMMARIZATION</center>

<center>Inderjeet Mani and Mark Maybury, editors</center>

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line information in recent
years, demand for text summarization technology appears to be
growing. Commercial companies are starting to offer text summarization
capabilities, often bundled with information retrieval tools. Further,
there is considerable interest in mining information from large
databases, many of which have text content. These recent developments
offer opportunities as well as substantial challenges for research in
text summarization. In general, such developments have created a
practical need for summarization systems which scale up when applied
to large volumes of unrestricted text.

In response to this challenge, a number of new approaches have
emerged. Traditionally, shallower techniques have been leveraged to
achieve the desired levels of scalability and domain-independence, but
recent advances in robust information extraction as well as approaches
integrating statistical and symbolic techniques have opened up
possibilities for more powerful yet scalable summarization techniques.

With the renewed interest in text summarization, another challenge is
to develop rigorous criteria to help evaluate different methodologies,
in order to better advise investors and the interested public on
technology choices. This state-of-the-art collection will bring
together research aimed at advancing the scientific frontiers of text
summarization to meet these new practical challenges and
opportunities. **The principal aim of this book is to collect some
of the key results to date and to identify promising research issues
for the benefit of students, corporate researchers, and research
program managers interested in learning more about this field.**

Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of text
summarization, including, but not limited to:

TECHNIQUES

 * Statistical, linguistic, and knowledge-based techniques in intelligent
summarization

 * Text summary generation 

 * Capturing cohesion and coherence relations in text

 * Exploiting advances in information extraction in summarization

 * Exploiting domain knowledge in scalable text summarization

 * Combining scalability with abstraction in summarization

 * Tailoring summaries to particular users, tasks, and contexts

NEW PROBLEMS

 * Multilingual summarization

 * Multimodal summarization 

 * Multi-document/multi-source summarization 

FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES in THEORY AND PRACTICE

 * Classification of summarization systems

 * Theoretical foundations, including cognitive models

 * Evaluation methods and metrics

 * Summarization in operational contexts: requirements, architectures,
lessons learned

Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance,
and significance of results. The papers will be reviewed by a
committee of experts. In addition, authors will be asked to relate the
content of their papers to other related papers in the book. In
addition to new contributions, the book will also include reprints of
classic papers in the field.

Submission Information

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: December 30, 1997

PAPERS REVIEWED BY: March 15, 1997

DRAFT TO PUBLISHERS: July 15, 1997

Interested authors should submit to the address below three copies of
a previously unpublished paper no more than 20 pages long,
single-spaced, addressing a specific text summarization issue or
reporting novel methods and results. Authors should indicate whether
the paper is being submitted elsewhere. Please include your name and
address on the first page.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Inderjeet Mani

The MITRE Corporation, W640

11493 Sunset Hills Road

Reston, Virginia 22090, USA

Internet: imani(at)mitre(dot)org

Phone: (703) 883-6149

Fax: (703) 883-1379

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Topic 4: CFP: ETAI -- Electronic Transactions on AI

From: Elisabeth Andre <Elisabeth.Andre(at)dfki(dot)de>

<center> *** Call for Papers for the First Issues of the ***</center>
<center> ETAI - ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE</center>
<center> Organized and published under the auspices of the</center>
<center> European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)</center>
<center> http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai</center>

AREA: Intelligent User Interfaces

SCOPE:

The ETAI is organized into several specialized areas. The area of
Intelligent User Interfaces focuses on design principles,
methodologies and tools that make man-machine communication easier and
more effective. For ETAI, papers are invited from the whole spectrum
of Intelligent User Interfaces research. Topics of interest include,
but are not restricted to:

- knowledge-based tools and environments for user interface design and development

- adaptive and customizable user interfaces

- user modeling

- intelligent interface agents and agent-based interaction

- knowledge-based presentation of information

- intelligent interfaces to the internet, for tasks such as design, presentation, access and navigation

- natural-language and multimodal interfaces

- intelligent front-ends to multimedia, hypermedia and virtual environments

- architectures for intelligent user interfaces

- evaluation and analysis of intelligent user interfaces applications, such as tutoring and advisory systems, computer-supported collaborative work, computer-aided design, decision-support systems, information kiosks

CONTRIBUTIONS:

The ETAI welcomes contributions for the first issues of the area:
Intelligent User Interfaces. Beside high-quality papers, we seek
conference and workshop reports, book reviews and links to software
that is available and can be run over the net. Submission guidelines
can be found under http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/submission.html
For more details contact the area editor (address see below).

AREA EDITOR: Elisabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany

AREA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE (as of September 1997):

Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University, Denmark

Peter Brusilovsky, CMU, USA

Lynda Hardmann, CWI, NL

James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA

Joe Marks, MERL, USA

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK

Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH, Greece

Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy

Annika Waern, SICS, Sweden

WHAT IS THE ETAI?

The ETAI represents a novel approach to electronic publishing. We do
not simply inherit the patterns from the older technology, but instead
we have rethought the structure of scientific communication in order
to make the best possible use of international computer networks as
well as electronic document and database technologies.

Articles submitted to the ETAI are reviewed in a 2-phase process.
After submission, an article is open to public online discussion in
the area's News Journal. After the discussion period of three months,
and after the authors have had a chance to revise it, the article is
reviewed for acceptance by the ETAI, using confidential peer review
and journal level quality criteria. This second phase is expected to
be rather short because of the preceding discussion and possible
revision. During the entire reviewing process, the article is already
published in a "First Publication Archive", which compares to
publication as a departmental tech report.

Compared to mailgroups, the News Journals offer a more persistent and
reputable forum of discussion. Discussion contributions are preserved
in such a way that they are accessible and referencable for the
future. In other words, they also are to be considered as "published".

One additional type of contributions in News Journals is for links to
software that is available and can be run over the net. This is
particularly valuable for software which can be run directly from a
web page.

The creation of bibliographies, finally, is a traditional activity in
research, but it is impractical in paper-based media since by their
very nature, bibliographies ought to be updated as new articles
arrive. The on-line maintenance of specialized bibliographies within
each of its topic areas is a natural function in the ETAI.

For more details see: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/

ADDRESS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Elisabeth Andre

DFKI GmbH

Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3

D-66123 Saarbruecken

Germany

Phone: +49 681 302 5267

Fax: +49 681 302 5341

email: andre(at)dfki(dot)de

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Topic 5: CFP: TAPD'98 -- Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction

From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr>

<center> TAPD'98</center>

<center> 1st Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'</center>

<center> April 2-3, 1998</center>

<center> Paris, France</center>

<center> Organized by INRIA</center>

<center> in collaboration with CEDRIC of CNAM</center>

<center> WEB page: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html</center>

MOTIVATIONS

Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly
redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language
Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract
Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity,
non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed
whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve
computation sharing and loop detection. In addition, tabulation also
offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies
and to represent ambiguity by shared structures (Shared Proof or Parse
Forest).

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these
different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation
and tabular systems to potential users in different application
areas. One major area of application is Natural Language Processing,
where tabulation has been known for a long time (CKY, Earley, chart
parsing). However, sophisticated tabulation techniques are required
for the more and more complex grammatical formalisms now used in NLP
(unification, constraints, structural complexity). Contributions in
other areas, such as picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete
deduction techniques, are also encouraged.

TOPICS (not exclusive)

-- Tabulation Techniques: 

Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms

-- Applications:

Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases,Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving

 -- Static Analysis:

Improving tabular evaluation

-- Parsing or resolution strategies.

-- Efficiency issues:

 Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing),

Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption).

-- Shared structures (parse or proof forest):

Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 2-day event that provides a
forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as
well as group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before December
12, 1997 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical
contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time
constraints, submissions will be handled exclusively electronically
(LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submissions should include
the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

Submissions must be sent to Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr

The collection of selected papers will be available at the
workshop. After the workshop, authors are invited to submit a full
paper for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logic
Programming oriented towards Natural Language Processing. The authors
should note that this second submission will be treated according to
the standards of the Journal of Logic Programming.

SCHEDULE:
{|
|-
| Submission of contributions: || 12 December 1997
|-
| Notification of acceptance: ||26 January 1998
|-
| Final versions due: ||20 February 1998
|}

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

{|
|-
| Bernard Lang (chairman) ||-- INRIA, France
|-
|Francois Bry || -- University of Munich, Germany
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie || -- INRIA, France
|-
| Marc Dymetman || -- Xerox, France
|-
| Mark Johnson || -- Brown University, USA
|-
| Baudouin Le Charlier || -- University of Namur, Belgium
|-
| Mark Jan Nederhof || -- University of Groningen, NL
|-
|David Rosenblueth || -- University of Mexico, Mexico
|-
|Manuel Vilares || -- University of La Coruna, Spain
|-
|David S. Warren || -- University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
|}

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

{|
|-
| Francois Barthelemy ||-- CNAM, Paris, France
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie ||-- INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
|-
| Bernard Lang || -- INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
|-
| Manuel Vilares || -- University of La Coruna, Spain
|}

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

{|
|-
| Claudie Thenault ||--INRIA, Relations Exterieures, France
|}

ORGANIZATION: Up-to-date information will be available at

<center> http://pauillac.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html</center>

For request, please contact:

{|
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie||
|-
| INRIA Rocquencourt ||Tel: +33 1 39 63 54 10
|-
|Domaine de Voluceau - BP 105 ||Fax: +33 1 39 63 53 30
|-
|78153 Le Chesnay Cedex || E-mail: Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr
|}

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Topic 6: CFP: SIGDAT'98 -- Very Large Corpora

From: Eugene Charniak <ec(at)cs(dot)brown(dot)edu>

<center>SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA</center>

<center> Preliminary Call for Papers</center>

WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)

WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in
corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest
include (but are not limited to):

 - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis

- part of speech tagging

 - term and name identification

- word sense disambiguation

- morphological analysis

 - anaphora resolution

- event categorization

- discourse structure identification

- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology

 - language modelling

- lexicography

- machine translation

 - spelling and grammar correction

PROGRAM CHAIR:

{|
| Eugene Charniak ||Brown University
|}

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit
six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene
Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. Authors
should consult the primary call for papers in February for updated
specifications.

SCHEDULE:

{|
| Submission Deadline: ||April 20, 1998
|-
| Notification Date: || June 1, 1998
|-
| Camera ready copy due: ||June 22, 1998

|}

CONTACT:

Eugene Charniak

e-mail ec(at)cs(dot)brown(dot)edu

Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998

Department of Computer Science

Brown University

Providence RI 02912-1910

Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998

Department of Computer Science

Johns Hopkins University

NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21218-2694

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Topic 7: CFP: FOIS'98 -- Formal Ontology in Information Systems

From: Alessandro Artale <artale(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it>

<center> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON</center>

<center>FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS</center>

<center> FOIS'98</center>

<center> In conjunction with</center>

<center> the 6th International Conference on Principles of</center>

<center> Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'98 </center>

<center>TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998</center>

<center> Under the auspices of the Project</center>

<center> ONTOINT </center>

<center>(Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration)</center>

<center>funded by the Italian National Research Council </center>

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer
science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse
as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing,
knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic
information science, and intelligent information access. Various workshops
addressing the engineering aspects of ontology have been held in the past
few years. However, ontology - by its very nature - ought to be a unifying
discipline. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area
of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for
this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific
principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and
applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first
step in this direction.

As the heterogeneity of the program committee indicates, the conference
will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants
include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and
philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical
issues, methodological proposals as well as papers addressing concrete
applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome.

TOPICS

Examples of problem areas that may be addressed at the conference include:

THEORETICAL ISSUES

* Foundations:

parthood, constitution, identity, integrity, dependence, causality

* Kinds of entity:

particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents,

abstracta vs. concreta, attributes, relations, qualities,

quantities, tropes or moments, states, situations, environments

* Matter, space, time, motion, change

 * Natural kinds, organisms, artifacts

* The ontology of social reality:

legal and administrative entities, artistic expressions

* The ontology of information and information processing:

representations, signs, software products, virtual reality, cyberspace

 * Top-level ontological taxonomies:

new proposals or critical analyses of existing ones

* Cognitive foundations of ontological distinctions

* Kinds of ontology:

top-level ontologies, domain ontologies, task ontologies,application ontologies

* Ontological commitment

APPLICATION AREAS

 * Knowledge organization, integration and standardization

 * Intelligent information access

 * Information systems design

 * Knowledge engineering

 * Conceptual modelling

 * Qualitative modelling

 * Lexical semantics

 * Terminology integration

 * Product knowledge integration

 * Geographic information systems

 * Legal information systems

TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES

 * Ontological and linguistic instruments for conceptual analysis

 * Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers will be selected on the basis of a rigorous review of full paper
contributions. Authors should submit 5 copies to the Conference Chair by
December 19, 1997. Papers received after the deadline or not conforming to
the submission format will be rejected without review.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantially different from papers
under review. Papers that have been or will be presented at small
workshops/symposia whose proceedings are available only to attendees may be
submitted.

Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s),
affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating
the topic areas listed above that best describe the
contribution. Submissions must be at most 16 pages, excluding the title page
and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of
75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt)
using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Papers should be sent in 5 copies. Fax or
electronic submissions will not be accepted.

Those proposing to submit papers must complete the form at the WWW address
<http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/> by Monday December 15, 1997. If
intending authors do not have WWW access, then an e-mail message must be
sent to <fois98(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it> by the same date, giving details of any
proposed submission in the following format:

Title: <Title of paper>

Author: <Last name, initials>

Author: <Insert as many more author lines as necessary>

...

CorrespondingAuthor: <name of corresponding author>

CorrespondingEmail: <email of corresponding author>

CorrespondingAddress: <address of corresponding author>

Keywords: <insert list of keywords, preferably chosen from above list>

Abstract: <insert short abstract, max 200 words>

EndAbstract: 

Should intending authors not have e-mail access, the information above
should be sent by letter to arrive to the Conference Chair by Monday
December 15, 1997.

The proceedings will be published in the IOS-Press (Amsterdam) bookseries
'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications' and will be
available at the conference. Final camera-ready copies of the accepted
papers will be due by March 9, 1998. Authors will be responsible for
preparing the final camera-ready in conformity with the formatting
requirements laid down by the publisher (see instructions at the FOIS'98 web
page http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/submissions.html). Final papers
will be allowed at most fourteen (14) pages in the conference proceedings
style (corresponding to approximately 20 article-style LaTex pages).

SCHEDULE

{|
|-
|Monday, December ||15, 1997 Electronic abstracts due
|-
|Friday, December ||19, 1997 Papers due
|-
|Friday, February || 6, 1998 Results sent to authors
|-
|Monday, March || 9, 1998 Final papers due
|-
|Saturday-Monday, June || 6-8, 1998 FOIS'98
|}

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

{|
|-
|CONFERENCE CHAIR || ORGANIZATION CHAIR
|-
|Nicola Guarino || Alessandro Artale
|-
|National Research Council || ITC-IRST
|-
|LADSEB-CNR || Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy
|-
|Corso Stati Uniti, 4 || e-mail: artale(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it
|-
|I-35127 Padova, Italy||
|-
|e-mail: guarino(at)ladseb(dot)pd(dot)cnr(dot)it||
|}

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

{|
|Alessandro Artale - Enrico Franconi || (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy)
|-
|Nicola Guarino - Claudio Masolo || (LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy)
|-
|Luca Pazzi - Sonia Bergamaschi || (Univ. of Modena, Italy)
|-
|Geri Steve - Aldo Gangemi || (ITBM-CNR, Roma, Italy)
|-
|Cristiano Castelfranchi - Rino Falcone || (IP-CNR, Roma, Italy)
|}

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Topic 8: CFP: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers -- Coling/ACL'98

From: Eduard Hovy <hovy(at)ISI(dot)EDU>

<center> Coling/ACL 98 workshop</center>

<center> Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers</center>

<center> August 15, 1998</center>

<center> Universite de Montreal</center>

<center> Montreal/Canada</center>

The notion of discourse relation has received many interpretations, some
of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a
consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between
adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by
linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts,
theme inversions, and other markers.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse
relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and
different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is
the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic
realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of
the following questions:

* What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers

(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?

* What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with

potential realizations?

* Are there discourse relations that are *always* lexically signalled?

Are there any that are *never* lexically signalled?

* What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? 

* In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all?

* In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation?

* In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)?

* In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues?

* In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?

* What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production?

* What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What 
features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily?

* Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language?

* How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues?

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

Manfred Stede (Technical University, Berlin)

Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)

Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)

This call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can
be found at http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998

Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date)

Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998

Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998

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Topic 9: CFP: INLG'98 -- International Workshop on NL Generation

From: Graeme Hirst <gh(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>

<center> =============================</center>
<center> 9th International Workshop on </center>

<center> NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION</center>

<center> 5-7 August 1998</center>

<center>Prince of Wales Hotel </center>

<center> Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada</center>

<center> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

(For more information, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 )

The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held
in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in
Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998.

The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop
attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and
research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related
fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning,
and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop,
which traditionally has had a very diverse international
representation.

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's
major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from
Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with
many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake
bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its
main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops,
cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one
of the top North American repertory theatre companies.

The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference
of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the
workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL
directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal
(approximately 4 hours).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should
emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should
also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible.

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this
fact on the first page.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title,
references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with
margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.

System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an
outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that
describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots.
Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller
than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not
satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be
rejected without review.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file.
This file should be sent to hovy(at)isi(dot)edu, with the subject field "INLG
submission".

SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY

Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or
demonstration outline should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy, INLG-98

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

DEADLINES

Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that
they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic
submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI.

Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers
will be returned unreviewed.

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of
acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers
prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer,
must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release
statement.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University
of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General workshop questions:

Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco(at)logos(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca, phone +1 519 888 4443

General paper-submission questions:

Eduard Hovy, hovy(at)isi(dot)edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair)

Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland

Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto

Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto

Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal

Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh

Marie Meteer, BBN

Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney

Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen

Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney

Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park

For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website:

http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

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Topic 10: JOB: ITRI, Brighton -- Research opportunities

From: Donia Scott <donia.scott(at)itri(dot)bton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

<http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/summer97.html>

ITRI, University of Brighton

The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the University
of Brighton, is a major centre for research in Computational Linguistics
and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are natural
language generation, lexicons, corpora and human computer interfaces.
Our current research programme addresses the following theoretical
issues: anaphora, architectures for natural language generation,
automated interface design, constraint based reasoning, controlled
languages, corpora, diagrammatic reasoning, discourse, document design,
integrating text and graphics, lexical knowledge bases, lexical
representation, multilinguality, natural language interfaces, text
generation, underspecification, word sense disambiguation.

The Institute is comprised of around twenty staff and students: research
professors, readers, research fellows, research assistants, postgraduate
students and technical and administrative staff. We also regularly host
visiting researchers from other universities worldwide.

The Institute is housed in a self-contained brand new office suite with
excellent computing and network facilities and full administrative
support. As a dedicated research department, we place great emphasis on
career management and development, and participation in the wider
research community.

We are currently recruiting to fill up to six fixed-term research posts
over the next few months, ranging from research officers to principal
research fellows for up to three or five years in duration. A number of
PhD studentships may also be available.

If you are interested in working with us, we would be interested in
hearing from you. Please address all enquiries, enclosing a CV if
possible, to the address below. Suitable potential candidates will be
sent further information. Meanwhile, more detailed information regarding
the Institute is available on our web site.

Ms Vivienne Wicks, Research Administrator, Information Technology
Research Institute, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2
4GJ, United Kingdom.

{|
|Tel: +44 1273 642900 || Email: admin(at)itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk
|-
|Fax: +44 1273 642908 ||URL: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/
|}

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Topic 11: JOB: ELRA/ELDA

From: elra-elda(at)calva(dot)net (Malin Nilsson)

===============================================
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT at ELRA/ELDA in Paris
===============================================

ELRA, the European Language Resources Association, has an immediate vacancy
for a Technical assistant for ELDA, its Paris-based distribution agency.
ELRA, a non-profit association registered in Luxembourg, was established in
1995 and receives financial support from the European Commission and
national governments to promote the development and exploitation of Language
Resources - monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech
databases and terminology - in Europe. Enjoying strong backing from the
language engineering industry, ELRA's operations are conducted by the CEO
and his team at ELDA.

The role of the new technical assistant will be to contribute to the work of
a small support team in the development of the infrastructure for the
collection, validation, and licensing of LR and in the interactions with the
relevant players (i.e. producers, owners and users of LR who may be in the
industrial, commercial or academic world; and governmental and
non-governmental agencies), with a particular focus on textual and
terminological resources.

This position yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and
motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in
establishing/building the European Union Language Engineering field. Terms
and conditions of employment are subject to negotiation, but will be
commensurated with the responsibilities of the post and will include
performance-based incentives. ELRA will pay relocation expenses for the
selected candidate. This is initially a one-year appointment with a strong
possibility of a further two years or permanent employment.

Qualifications:

- Excellent track record in Language Engineering and related fields.

- Technical experience in design and development of Language Engineering

solutions (preference for candidats with experience in the fields of written

text and/or terminology).

- Experience in collecting, validating, and marketing language resources,

software or other forms of intellectual property. =09

- Experience in packaging language resources for distribution using=

CD-ROM,

ftp facilities, etc.. will be a plus.

- Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country.

- Ability to work in at least two European languages including English.

Applicants should send a cover letter addressing the points listed above,
together with a current Curriculum Vitae, to:
ELRA Distribution Agency (ELDA), Dr. Khalid Choukri, 87, Avenue d'Italie
F-75013 Paris, France
Fax +33 1 45 86 44 88; e-mail: elra(at)calvanet(dot)calvacom(dot)fr
For more information on ELRA, see:http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
(English) or /ELRA/fr/home.html (French)
Initial applications by e-mail will be accepted with follow-up by post/fax.

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===Issue 2===

<center> =============================</center>

<center>9th International Workshop on </center>

<center> NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION</center>

<center> 5-7 August 1998</center>

<center>Prince of Wales Hotel </center>

<center>Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada</center>

<center>CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

(For more information, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 )

The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held
in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in
Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998.

The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop
attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and
research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related
fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning,
and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop,
which traditionally has had a very diverse international
representation.

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's
major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from
Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with
many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake
bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its
main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops,
cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one
of the top North American repertory theatre companies.

The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference
of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the
workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL
directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal
(approximately 4 hours).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should
emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should
also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible.

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this
fact on the first page.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title,
references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with
margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.

System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an
outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that
describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots.
Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller
than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not
satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be
rejected without review.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file.
This file should be sent to hovy@isi.edu, with the subject field "INLG
submission".

SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY

Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or
demonstration outline should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy, INLG-98

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

DEADLINES

Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that
they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic
submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI.

Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers
will be returned unreviewed.

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of
acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers
prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer,
must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release
statement.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University
of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General workshop questions:

Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443

General paper-submission questions:

Eduard Hovy, hovy@isi.edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair)

Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland

Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto

Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto

Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal

Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh

Marie Meteer, BBN

Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney

Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen

Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney

Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park

For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website:

http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

===Issue 1===

Date: 2 Jan 1997
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TOPICS:

1. NEW! SIGGEN WEB SITE <http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/siggen>

2. Contribute: workshop papers, thesis, siggen directory.

3. ELRA News

4. CFP: RIAO'97 Computer Assisted Information Searching On Internet

25 June 97, Montreal - Deadline March 3, 1997

<mailto:Abdellatif.Saoudi(at)irin(dot)univ-nantes(dot)fr> 

5. NLP Research Positions in Sydney, Australia <rdale(at)mpce(dot)mq(dot)edu(dot)au>

6. CFP: EMNLP-2 (SIGDAT) - Deadline: March 3, 1997

August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97) - Brown University

7. CFP: EUROSPEECH 97 - Deadline: 1 February 1997

Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997

8. CFP: BISFAI'97 - Deadline: February 2nd 1997

June 16-18, 1997, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Topic 1:

From: siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il (Michael Elhadad)

Subject: SIGGEN Web site

Happy new year! SIGGEN is finally moving to the era of the World Wide Web.

The SIGGEN Web site is:

<http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/siggen>

Please check it and contribute material to add there. Send me all your

comments. I have been thinking about adding a members directory. I believe

the best way is if you want to have your name and http address added there with

a short description of your interests, please mail them to me and I will

maintain the directory (until someone contributes a program to do these things

automatically).

From now on, I will add conference and workshop announcements on the Web site

and only send pointers in the newsletter (which will become much shorter).

With the new year, feel free again to contribute to this newsletter: send

questions, update on your research, paper announcements, reaction on published

papers, reviews etc.

The newsletter is sent approximately every two months. If you want to remove

your name from the list, please send email to siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il.

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Topic 2:

From: siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il (Michael Elhadad)

Subject: Previous workshop papers

Many people have observed that many Generation papers have appeared in one of

the previous Workshops on Generation. These papers are difficult to find. We

should make every effort to make them more available. This is a call to all

authors of papers previously published in one of the Generation Workshops to

send to SIGGEN a pointer to the file(s) of the paper.

The SIGGEN Web site also contains pointers to generation resources: papers,

thesis, software. Contribute!

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Topic 3:

From: elra(at)calvanet(dot)calvacom(dot)fr (Khalid Choukri)

Subject: INFORMATION FROM ELRA (European Language Resources Association)

<center>INFORMATION FROM THE </center>

<center>European Language Resources Association </center>

<center> ELRA News </center>

ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in

February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the

creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition

to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested

parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as

the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with

similar bodies in other parts of the world. Funded in the medium term by

membership fees, grants from the European Commission and national governments,

together with projects income, the Association will be financially

self-supporting in the long run. A 12-member Board is in charge of the strategy

and objectives to be adopted by the Association.

Relevant LR are Spoken Databases, Lexica, Grammars, Written Corpora and

Terminological Data. These are required for the development of speech and text

processing systems for a large number of applications in various information

technology areas.

ELRA licences LR for R&D, as soon as these are made available. According to the

agreements made between ELRA and its providers, resources can be either

reserved for research purposes or used for the development of products and

services. Licence agreements, drawn with the support of lawyers, are used for

negotiations. Such contracts are available at ELRA office. Lexica, Corpora

(spoken and written), Grammars and Tools are described in easy-to-understand

presentation forms. All these documents can be found on the ELRA Web site.

<center> ELRA Newsletters</center>

A Newsletter is released by ELRA every Quarter. The next three issues will

primarily and alternatively be devoted to each of the 3 Colleges of the

Association : spoken, written and terminological resources. The October

Newletter (vol.1 n.3) is already available at ELRA office. It is entirely

dedicated to Terminology. The next two issues will be dedicated to written and

spoken resources.

<center> The ELRA Web site</center>

The ELRA Web site is now available in English and French. The URL addresses
are:
English version: <http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html>

French version : <http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html>

<center>ELRA Language Resources catalogue </center>

A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on

our Web site. For quotation, please refer to this site or directly to ELRA

office. A published version is released twice a year (together with number 1

and 3 of the Newsletter).

Resources appearing in the catalogue are separated according to the three

Colleges : spoken resources, written resources (corpora, lexica and tools) and

terminological resources. The catalogue consists of :

1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone,

continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.).

2) Written resources :

* 9 monolingual and multilingual corpora 

* 12 monolingual lexica 

* Over 30 multilingual lexical 

* A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 

3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains

and several languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian,

Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese).

<center> ELRA Membership</center>

ELRA members are entitled to substantial discounts on public prices of the

resources and other products (such as the Guide for Terminology Agreements and

several commercial reports).

ELRA membership is open to any organization, public or private, with full

membership (including voting privileges) being available to organizations

registered in Europe. Purely for organizational purposes, members will be

assigned to one of the Colleges on the basis of their main area of

interest. The annual membership fee has been set at a modest ECU 1,000 to

encourage broad participation. You may also opt to join more than one College,

in which case you will be required to pay multiple membership fees.

Please ask for a membership form or download it from the ELRA Web site.

For further information :
<center> ELRA/ELDA</center>

<center>87, Avenue d'Italie</center>

<center>FR-75013 PARIS </center>

<center>FRANCE </center>

<center>Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00</center>

<center>Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88</center>

<center>E-mail : elra(at)calva(dot)net</center>

<center>http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</center>

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Topic 4:

From: Abdellatif.Saoudi(at)irin(dot)univ-nantes(dot)fr (Abdellatif Saoudi)

<center>CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

<center>5TH RIAO CONFERENCE</center>

<center> COMPUTER ASSISTED INFORMATION SEARCHING ON INTERNET</center>

<center> 25th-27th June 1997</center>

<center> McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7,Canada,</center>

"RIAO 97" will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO 85 took place in

France, RIAO 88 at MIT (Cambridge MA., U.S.A.), RIAO 91 in Barcelona, Spain,

and RIAO 94 in New York. The Conference is organized by the "CENTRE DE HAUTES

ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE" (CID) Paris.

Facing the growth of document information available throught the Internet way

(Web sites, NewsGroups or emails), it is necessary to offer new technologies,

mechanisms and systems to manage all that information. The huge amount of

information implies rapid indexing and retrieval engines, efficient datamining

and knowledge discovery systems in oder to find relevant or strategic

information. On one hand,linguistic tools are necessary when managing textual

information ; one the other hand specifics problems have to be solved regarding

the management of multimedia information : multimedia information

characterisation, search mechanisms, multimedia interfaces. Tools are also

necessary to deal with the diversity of the information source. Where is the

relevant information stored? Which are the best sources? How can heterogeneous

repositories be queried, ...? Finally, the current ways of diffusing

information such as the Internet lead to security problems that must not be

overlooked.

The purpose of this conference is to confront specialists in media contents

with specialists in Web-based searching.

More specifically, papers are expected to cover one or more of the following

topics :

A - Rapid indexing and retrieval engines, automatic abstracting

B - Evaluation of linguistic tools in information retrieval

C - Information Retrieval from several repositories

- Identification of duplicated documents in different

repositories (different languages, structures or versions),

 - Unification of documents from heterogeneous repositories ;

datawarehousing,

- Interest of the use of datamining and knowledge discovery

strategies when querying large repositories,

- Evaluation of repository for a given search strategy.

D - Technology watch techniques using strategy on the Web ;

content adressable electronic mail, news group, WWW systems.

E - Architecture

- How can large data flows be exploited by information retrieval tools,

- Distributed, multi-agent architectures

F - Image
 - Image content characterisation, human and automatic image description methods,

- Image search strategies

G - Sound
 - Sound content characterisation,

- Automatic identification of sound type: speech, music...,

- Spoken language recognition,

 - Word-spotting.

H - Content-based compression techniques

I - Multimedia interfaces : Iconic, navigational, speech interface

to web search

J - Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime

K - Web-related international conventions and policies

IMPORTANT DATES :

{|
| Closing date for submission:|| 20 January 1997
|-
| Notification of acceptance: || 10 March 1997
|-
| Camera-ready copy: ||10 May 1997
|-
| Conference start-date: ||25 June 1997
|}

Detailed information regarding RIAO-97 can be found on the World Wide

Web Server :

http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97/

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Topic 5:

From: Robert Dale <rdale(at)mpce(dot)mq(dot)edu(dot)au>

Subject: NLP Research Positions in Sydney, Australia

Are you in the northern hemisphere? Chilly, huh? Well: why not carry

out research in language technology in Sydney, Australia ...

The Microsoft Research Institute's Language Technology Group, situated

on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, is currently seeking

to hire two research scientists. The successful candidates will work

on a number of ongoing and new projects in the areas of natural

language processing and language engineering. We are particularly

interested in hiring people to work in the following three areas:

automatic text generation;

intelligent text processing and information extraction; and

connecting language and action.

Generally, we expect research staff to spend approximately 50% of

their time working on group projects, and 50% pursuing other research

avenues of their own devising. We are particularly interested in

candidates with previous experience in one or more of the following

areas:

corpus-based and statistical methods;

message extraction and understanding;

the use of natural language processing techniques in information

retrieval;

the design and development of dialogue systems;

text planning; and

linguistic realisation.

Applicants should have a postgraduate degree in computational

linguistics, computer science or linguistics, and competence in

several areas drawn from the following portfolio:

Computational linguistic theory: a basic understanding of parsing

techniques; a grounding in one or more syntactic theories; a

familiarity with techniques in statistical text processing; an

understanding of issues in discourse processing; an awareness

of the breadth of issues in the field; and

The ability to program (well!) in one or more of: C, C++, or Lisp.

MRI offers excellent computational facilities and the opportunity to

work in an expanding team that carries out leading-edge research in

language technology. MRI is located on the campus of Macquarie

University in North Ryde, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, one of the

world's most beautiful cities.

The positions will become available from January 1997, although actual

start dates are negotiable. The positions are open to those

considering postdoctoral positions as well as more experienced

candidates. Please send your application (including a CV and list of

publications) by email to Robert Dale (Robert.Dale(at)mq(dot)edu(dot)au) as soon

as possible and by January 1st 1997 at latest. Early indications of

interest would be useful if received by December 13th 1996. Informal

enquiries can be sent to the same address.

Find out more about MRI at <http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/ltg/>

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Topic 6:

From: yarowsky(at)blaze(dot)cs(dot)jhu(dot)edu (David Yarowsky)

Subject: Call for Papers - EMNLP-2

The Association for Computational Linguistics and its

Special Interest Group SIGDAT announce the

<center> Second Conference on</center>

<center>Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing</center>

<center>(EMNLP-2) </center>

<center> Preliminary Call For Papers </center>

WHEN: August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97)

WHERE: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general

forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural

language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited

to):

- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis

- part of speech tagging

- term and name identification

- word sense disambiguation

- morphological analysis

- anaphora resolution

- event categorization

- discourse structure identification

- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology

- language modelling

- lexicography

- machine translation

- spelling and grammar correction

SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the

strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as

applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR).

In recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic

linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these

techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc.,

handle the specific problems encountered in practical language

processing tasks like information extraction and information

retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods

have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms

for these tasks or to address problems specific to information

extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution?

How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of

IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system

effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language

understanding?

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

{|
| Claire Cardie || Cornell University (chair)
|-
| Ralph Weischedel ||BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair)
|}

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

{|
| Eugene Charniak ||Brown University

|}

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper

(3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic

submissions should be mailed to "cardie(at)cs(dot)cornell(dot)edu" and must

either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US

letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use

the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript)

figures. The aclsub style file is available at

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via

ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy

submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and

should include six (6) copies of the paper.

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted

for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any

other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be

considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the

submission.

SCHEDULE:

{|
|-
|Submission deadline: || March 3, 1997
|-
|Notification date: ||April 21, 1997
|-
|Camera-ready copy due: ||June 10, 1997
|-
|Conference dates: ||August 1-2, 1997
|}

CONTACTS:

{|
|-
|Claire Cardie || Ralph Weischedel
|-
|Cornell University ||BBN Systems and Technologies
|-
|Department of Computer Science ||70 Fawcett Street
|-
|4142 Upson Hall || Cambridge, MA 02138
|-
|Ithaca, NY 14850 USA || USA
|-
|cardie(at)cs(dot)cornell(dot)edu || weischedel(at)bbn(dot)com
|-
|(607)255-9206 ||(617)873-3496

|}

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Topic 7:
From m.scordilis(at)wcl(dot)ee(dot)upatras(dot)gr Mon Dec 23 17:46:27 1996

Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

<center> European Speech Communication Association</center>

<center> (ESCA)</center>

<center> EUROSPEECH'97</center>

<center> 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE20</center>

<center> ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY</center>

<center> RHODES, GREECE</center>

<center> 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997</center>

<center> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

AIMS

The Fifth biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology,

EUROSPEECH'97, of the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), will be

held on the island of Rhodes, Greece, organized by the University of Patras,

Wire Communications Laboratory. Rhodes is situated in the southern Aegean Sea,

in the Mediterranean and it is famous for its natural beauty, its archeological

treasures and its highly developed tourism. ESCA is the European organization

that promotes research, development and applications in SPEECH COMMUNICATION

AND TECHNOLOGY. Host cities of the previous conferences were Paris (1989),

Genova (1991), Berlin (1993) and Madrid (1995). The upcoming conference will

include the latest developments in this field of major international

importance, presented in oral and poster sessions . Furthermore it will

include several keynote addresses by distinguished scientists. All

presentations and printed material will be in English, which is the official

language of the conference. In addition to the technical program, an exhibition

of products, services and prototypes related to Speech and Language

Communication and Technology will be held during the conference. Prospective

authors are invited to propose papers in any of the listed technical areas.

TECHNICAL AREAS

A. Speech production and perception

B. Phonetics and phonology

C. Prosody

D. Neurophysiology, psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics of speech

E. Auditory modeling

F. Speech analysis and modeling

G. Neural networks for speech and language processing

H. Robust speech processing, signal enhancement and noise reduction

I. Text-to-speech synthesis

J. Speech and audio coding and transmission

K. Speech recognition and understanding

L. Language modeling

M. Spoken dialogue systems design

N. Speaker and language recognition

O. Spoken language resources, assessment, standards and human factors

P. Multimodal speech and language processing20

Q. Technology for speech and language acquisition and learning

R. Applications for speech, language and hearing disorders and aids for

the communication impaired

S. Speech and language engineering for the telecommunications

T. Systems, hardware and architectures for speech processing

U. Applications of speech technology

V. Other related areas or emerging techniques and applications

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of original, not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either

by post (four copies must be submitted) or by e-mail in postcript or ascii

format only. They must be received no later than 1 February 1997 together with

the completed EUROSPEECH'97 Abstracts Cover Form given below. Abstracts should

not exceed two A4 pages (including figures and references). All submissions

will be acknowledged. E-mail abstracts will be acknowledged within 24 hours. If

they are not acknowledged, please check the e-mail address and resubmit. All

abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Programme Committee. Submission of

an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted.

ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION ADDRESS:

EUROSPEECH'97

Wire Communications Laboratory

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Patras

26110 Rion, Patras, GREECE

E-mail: Abstracts-EURO97(at)wcl(dot)ee(dot)upatras(dot)gr

SPECIAL SESSIONS

EUROSPEECH'97 will include a Special Session on "Education for Language &

Speech Communication Sciences", which aims to address educational issues of

Phonetics, Spoken Language Engineering, Speech and Language Therapy, Computer

assisted learning (CAL) and the use of internet. Abstracts submitted for this

session must be indicated in the space provided in the Abstracts Cover

Form. For more information please contact:
{|
|Gerrit Bloothooft || 20
|}
Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS)

Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands

Phone: +31.30.2536042

Fax: +31.30.2536000

Email: Gerrit.Bloothooft(at)let(dot)ruu(dot)nl

SCHEDULE

{|
|Submission of abstracts ||To be received by ||1 February 1997
|-
|Notification of acceptance ||To be mailed out by ||1 April 1997
|-
|Submission of photo-ready papers ||To be received by ||20 May 1997
|}

SATELLITE EVENTS

ESCA WORKSHOP ON INTONATION, 18-20 September 1997, at Athens, Greece.

Information contact: Antonis Botinis

Tel: +30 1 7211119

Fax: +30 1 7228981

E-mail: tonesca(at)di(dot)uoa(dot)gr

WWW server: http://www.di.uoa.gr/esca

EU SPEECH PROJECTS DAY, Monday, 22 September 1997, 9:00-13:00,

Convention Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece.

Information contact: Giovanni Battista Varile

European Commission, DG XIII E5 - Language Engineering

Tel: +352 430 132 867 Fax: +352 430 134 999
E-mail: Giovanni.Varile(at)lux(dot)dg13(dot)cec(dot)be

COCOSDA WORKSHOP'97 (The International Coordinating Committee for Speech

Databases and Speech I/O Systems Assessment), Friday, 26 September 1997,

9:00-13:00, Convention Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel.

Information contact: Mark Liberman

University of Pennsylvania

Tel: +1 215 898 0464 Fax: +1 215 573 2175

E-mail: myl(at)unagi(dot)cis(dot)upenn(dot)edu

European Tutorial & Research Workshop on AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING:

Computational & Cognitive Science Approaches, 27-28 September 1997,

Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes (Greece).

Information contact: Christian BENOIT

Institut de la Communication Parlee, UPRESA CNRS No 5009, Universite

Stendhal,20

BP 25 X, F38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, FRANCE

Tel: (+33).4.76.82.43.36 Fax: (+33).4.76.82.43.35

E-mail: benoit(at)icp(dot)grenet(dot)fr

Web page: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/

COST WORKSHOP (Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical

research), 26-27 September 1997, Athens, Greece. Information contacts:

COST 249 COST 250

Continuous Speech Recognition Speaker Recognition in Telephony

{|
|Jean Pierre Martens ||Andrea Paoloni
|-
|Tel: +32 91 264 3395 ||Tel: +39 6 5480 3351
|-
|Fax: +32 91 264 3594 ||Fax: +39 6 5480 4405
|-
|E-mail: martens(at)elis(dot)rug(dot)ac(dot)be ||E-mail: pao(at)fub(dot)it
|}

WEB-SITE

The Call for Papers, Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors, all necessary

forms, and continuously updated information about the Conference, as

well as about Greece and Rhodes, can be found at our web site at:

<http://www.cti.gr/~ee-www/>

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Topic 8:

From: Leo Joskowicz <josko(at)cs(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il>

Subject: BISFAI'97

<center> ****** Call for Papers ****** </center>

<center> BISFAI '97 </center>

<center>The Fifth Bar-Ilan Symposium on </center>

<center>Foundations of Artificial Intelligence </center>

<center> June 16-18, 1997 </center>

<center> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel </center>

<center> in cooperation with </center>

<center> Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence </center>

<center> Israeli Society for Theoretical Computer Science </center>

<center> Gelbart Institute for Mathematical Sciences </center>

<center> The Association for Mathematics of Language </center>

<center> The Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science </center>

The focus of BISFAI '97 will be on Intelligent Agents. The Symposium will,

however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers

in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning,

automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, natural

language processing, etc.

The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial

intelligence and mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or

software system that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its

environment and other agents. An agent can also be pro-active in taking the

initiative in goal-directed behaviour.

We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in

particular in the area of Intelligent Agents. Agents have a clear and

growing importance, both practical and theoretical. Because of their

commercial relevance, we encourage practitioners from industry to submit

papers dealing with various practical aspects.

Distinguished Invited Speakers (tentative):

{|
|C. Boutilier ||(U. of British Columbia)
|-
|V. Lesser ||(U. of Massachusetts)
|-
|J. Rosenschein ||(Hebrew U.)
|-
|G. Shafer ||(Rutgers U.)
|-
|Y. Shoham || (Stanford U.)
|-
|P. Struss ||(Technical University of Munich)
|-
|W. Wahlster || (DFKI GmbH)
|}

THE 1997 ISRAELI FEDERATED COMPUTING CONFERENCE: The Symposium will be part

of the new Israeli Federated Computing Conference (IFCC). For contact

points on this conference, see below). The IFCC will also include the

Eighth Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software

Engineering (CBSE), which will take place on June 18-19, 1997, and the

Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS'97),

which will take place on June 17-19, 1997.

Paper Submission: Submit three hard copies of an extended abstract (4-10

pages), or full paper, by February 2nd 1997, to

Leo Joskowicz

Institute of Computer Science

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

E-mail: josko(at)cs(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20th March 1997. A final version

of the accepted will appear in the conference preprints, which will be

distributed to participants at the symposium. Selected refereed full

length papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of

Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the

Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the

Symposium.

Information on registration, accommodations, etc., will appear in future

announcements, or contact: bisfai(at)cs(dot)biu(dot)ac(dot)il.

The web page site is:

<http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html>

{|
| Symposium Chair
|-
|S. Kraus ||(Bar-Ilan U.)
|-
| Program Co-Chairs
|-
|D. Lehmann || (Hebrew U.)
|-
|L. Joskowicz ||(Hebrew U.)
|}

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==1996==
===Issue 7===
Date: 19 Nov 1996

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TOPICS:

1. CFP AI-ED 97 Kobe, Japan. Deadline January 23rd 1997 (partial)

2. Call for Participation KBCS - Bombay, India. Dec 16-18 1996 (partial)

3. Subject: UM97 CFP - Deadline Nov 25 1996 (full)
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Topic 1:

From: miz(at)ei(dot)sanken(dot)osaka-u(dot)ac(dot)jp (Riichiro MIZOGUCHI)

Subject: CFP AI-ED 97 Kobe, Japan. Deadline January 23rd 1997

NOTE: Full call for paper on the Web.

CALL FOR PAPERS

A I - E D 9 7

8TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION

--- Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems ---

19th - 22nd August, 1997

Kobe International Conference Center, JAPAN

URL: http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/aied97/cfp.html

Co-Sponsored by:

Artificial Intelligence in Education Society(AI-ED) and

Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education(JSISE)

In Cooperation with:

Asia-Pacific Chapter of the AACE

Japanese Association for Artificial Intelligence

The 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

(AI-ED 97) is one of a series of international conferences designed to

report the best research in the field of AI in Education and to

provide opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of information and

ideas on research and applications in this field.

The theme for 1997 will be Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems,

and papers that explore the emerging roles of intelligent multimedia

and distributed technologies as well as computer supported

collaboration within that theme will be particularly welcome.

You are invited to submit proposals for research papers, survey papers,

themed papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, and panels.

All proposals will be reviewed for inclusion in the technical program.

Scope

The technical program focuses on research activities linking

Artificial Intelligence theories and techniques with Educational

theory and practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Agents

Architectures

Authoring systems and tutoring shells

Case-based systems

Cognitive development

Cognitive diagnosis

Collaboration and collaborative tools

Computer-assisted language learning

Conceptual change

Educational robotics

Evaluation of instructional systems

Human factors and interface design

Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems

Intelligent tutoring systems

Knowledge and skill acquisition

Knowledge representation for instruction

Learning environments and microworlds

Modelling pedagogical interactions

Motivation

Natural language interfaces

Networked learning and teaching systems

Non-standard and innovative interfaces

Principles and tools for instructional design

Social and cultural aspects of learning

Student modelling

Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition

Theories of teaching

Visual and graphical interfaces

+In addition to RESEARCH papers and posters in the above areas, SURVEY

papers will also be accepted. A survey paper will offer a coherent and

critical summary of achievements and outstanding problems in an area.

+To provoke debate and reflection, THEME papers are also sought under

the specific title "Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems - the next

15 years".

+Exhibits are expected to be an integral part of the AI-ED 97

conference. Companies or institutions offering to exhibit AI-ED

products are invited.

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Topic 2:

From: KBCS Word Processing <kbcs(at)cs(dot)uni-sb(dot)de

<center>IMPORTANT DATES </center>

PAPERS AND POSTERS
{|
| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of abstracts and
|-
|25 November 1996 || author information
|-
|
|-
| Monday, || Receipt of electronic submissions
|-
|2 December 1996 || (optional)
|-
|
|-
|Tuesday, || E-mail notification to authors if the
|-
|3 December 1996 ||requirement of hard-copy submission is waived
|-
|
|-
|Friday, || Receipt of 5 hard copies of each
|-
|6 December 1996 || manuscript (except where the hard-copy requirement was waived on 3 December)
|-
|
|-
|Wednesday, ||Notification of authors by e-mail about
|-
|26 February 1997 ||acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
|
|-
|Monday, || Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
|31 March 1997 || camera-ready papers and summaries of posters
|}

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

{|
|Wednesday, ||Receipt by e-mail of 3-page submissions
|-
|5 February 1997 ||as ASCII text
|-
|
|-
|Wednesday, ||Notification to authors by e-mail about
|-
| 5 March 1997 ||acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
|
|-
|Monday, ||Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
|31 March 1997 ||camera-ready summaries of presentations
|}

WORKSHOPS

{|
|Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of 3-page workshop
|-
| 20 January 1997 ||proposals as ASCII text
|-
|
|-
| Friday, || Notification by e-mail to workshop
|-
|14 February 1997 || proposers about acceptance or rejection of proposals
|-
|
|Friday, ||Submission, by proposers of accepted
|-
| 21 February 1997 ||workshops, of final calls for participation
|-
|
|-
|Tuesday, ||Availability via the UM97 Web site
|-
| 25 February 1997 || and by e-mail of calls for participation in workshops
|}

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

{|
|Tuesday, || Registration of system demonstrations
|-
|15 April 1997 ||by e-mail
|}

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<center> REASONS TO SUBMIT TO UM97</center>

As a potential author, you may now be wondering whether to

write up your work for UM97 or for a journal or another conference.

Here are some points to bear in mind:

1. A paper that appears in the proceedings will have the status of a

peer-reviewed publication in an internationally distributed

edited volume, which will be published by SpringerWien-New York.

2. As an additional means of ensuring accessibility of the

proceedings, electronic versions of the papers will remain

available on the World Wide Web site of User Modeling, Inc.

for a long time after the conference.

3. Publication in the proceedings volume can be viewed as a

step along the way to the production of a major journal article

about your research. The deadline will encourage you to produce

an initial version; the comments of the members of the international

program committee will help you to improve it; and the feedback

that you get on the final conference paper will help you to

produce a strong full journal manuscript. Journal editors will

not in general be bothered by the fact that a related

conference-length paper has been published, as long as your

journal submission is sufficiently longer, more detailed, and

otherwise expanded relative to the conference paper. (The journal

"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction" is already reserving

space for articles of this sort.)

4. Experience with previous conferences in the UM series has

shown that they provide an exceptionally good environment for

exchanging ideas and making new contacts. There is a sharp

contrast with broader conferences, at which it is often hard to

find someone who is interested in the same topics as you are.

5. Finally, people who have visited Sardinia often claim that

it is one of the most beautiful places the world. There is

nothing wrong with enjoying this beauty for a few days before or

after UM97.

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===Issue 6===
Date: 20 Oct 1996

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TOPICS:

1. E W N L G - 9 7 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
DEADLINE NOV 15 1996!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Post in Computational Linguistics, Stirling <jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk>

3. Practical Human-computer conversation 1997 <yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk>
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Topic 1:

From: he232ho(at)rs1-hrz(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de (Wolfgang Hoeppner)

Subject: EWNLG-97

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CALL FOR PAPERS

E W N L G - 9 7

6th European Workshop on

Natural Language Generation

March 24 - 26, 1997

Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in Natural

Language Generation from such different perspectives as Linguistics,

Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Engineering.

The meeting continues the tradition of a series of workshops held

biannually in Europe (Royaumont, 1987; Edinburgh, 1989; Judenstein,

1991; Pisa, 1993; and Leiden, 1995) but it is open to researchers from

all over the world.

Program Committee:

Stephan Busemann, Saarbruecken

Alison Cawsey, Edinburgh

Robert Dale, Sydney

Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (chair)

Richard Kittredge, Montreal

Stephan Mehl, Duisburg

Koenrad deSmedt, Bergen

Michael Zock, Paris

Papers, posters and demonstrations are invited on original and

substantial work related to the automatic generation of natural

language, including computational linguistics research, artificial

intelligence methods, computer models of human language processing,

empirical research, and the development and evaluation of applied

systems. Contributions on all aspects of natural language generation are

welcome, but the special theme of this workshop will be

'System Architectures for Text Generation'.

This topic comprises a variety of more specific questions, e.g. planning

and/or schemata, pragmatic impact on content selection and form

determination, serial or incremental processing, macro-planning and

micro-planning.

To encourage a workshop atmosphere while allowing a relatively large

number of people to participate, selected papers will be given large time

slots including ample discussion time; other papers will be grouped for

shorter presentations and mutual interaction, and there will be sessions

for posters and computer demonstrations.

Submissions:

Researchers wishing to present a PAPER are requested to submit three

copies of an original unpublished article (10 pages). To allow for

anonymous reviewing the name(s) and complete adress(es) of the

author(s) have to be provided on a separate sheet. We would appreciate

that you additionally send an electronic version of the paper (email or

diskette).

Researchers wishing to present a POSTER are invited to submit three

copies of a reduced version of their poster on 4 normal pages that

together form an A2 size sheet. Use a normal character size. As with

papers any personal information about the author(s) should appear on a

separate sheet.

Researchers wishing to demonstrate a computer PROGRAM are invited to

send three copies of a short description of their program together with

some examples of input and output and hardware requirements. Please

include the name(s) and complete address(es) of the author(s) in the

description.

<center> ********** N E W D E A D L I N E *************</center>

All contributions must be sent BEFORE NOVEMBER 15, 1996 to the

Program Chairman at the following address:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner

Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg

FB3 * Computational Linguistics

D-47048 Duisburg, Germany

Tel.: +49 203 379-2006/2008

email: hoeppner(at)unidui(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de

Internet: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/EWNLG-96.html

Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection by January 17, 1997.

Local arrangements:

Local arrangements are handled by: Wolfgang Hoeppner and Stephan

Mehl (University of Duisburg).

The meeting will be held from the morning of Monday March 24, 1997

through afternoon on Wednesday 26, in 'Die Wolfsburg' situated in the

municipal forest of Duisburg. This conference site congresses and

workshops from all scientific areas and is equipped with excellent

presentation facilities and modern guest rooms.

The cost of the workshop to each participant is currently estimated at

about DM 500 including accommodation and meals, but the participants'

fee may turn out to be lower depending on funding. The workshop will

also be open to a limited number of participants not contributing a

paper, poster or demo. A call for participation including more

information and a registration form will be sent out later as soon as the

program has been put together.

Please direct any inquiries to the adress above.

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner *********

Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg *======*

Fachbereich 3 * Computerlinguistik *====*

D-47048 Duisburg *==*
----------------- *

Tel.: (0203) 379-2006/2008

email: hoeppner(at)unidui(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de

internet: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/hoeppner.html

or: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/Englisch/hoeppner.html
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Topic 2:

From: Dr Judy L Delin <jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk>

Subject: Post in Computational Linguistics, Stirling

Lectureship in Computational and Descriptive Linguistics

University of Stirling, Scotland

The University wishes to expand its growing activity in descriptive and

computational linguistics by appointing a Lecturer to work alongside Dr.

Judy Delin in the Department of English Studies.

We are looking for an established researcher in the field who will invest in

the development of research and teaching at Stirling, with expertise in

discourse, pragmatics, contrastive text analysis, natural language

generation, and/or speech generation. Experience or an interest in

contrastive text analysis in languages other than English, especially

Japanese, would be particularly desirable. The level of the appointment

reflects our expectation that the new person will be able to generate

external research funds and will have initiative in developing

collaborative research within and outside the group. The post will be

research-led, but the ideal candidate would also be able to help develop

future undergraduate and postgraduate teaching modules in linguistics

and computational linguistics. Future teaching and our research

development will also require expertise in programming for NLP.

Stirling is a small University situated in what is perhaps the most

beautiful campus in the U.K., and within easy reach of Edinburgh and

Glasgow. The accommodation is modern and well-equipped (networked,

Unix workstation or other platform if preferred). The Lecturer will be part

of the Language and Communication Research Group, an interdisciplinary

group that includes researchers from Psychology, Education, English

Studies, Japanese Studies, and the Centre for English Language

Teaching. Initiative in establishing further cross-disciplinary links will be

particularly encouraged.

The post would be for two years in the first instance with good prospects of

renewal. The appointment will be on the Lecturer B Scale, L. 20677 to

L. 26430 a year, with placement according to qualifications, experience,

and potential. Starting date is negotiable, although we hope that the new

Lecturer will be with us by January 1997.

Informal enquiries are welcome: please contact Dr Judy Delin on(+44) (0)

1786 467974, email: jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk, or consult the Web page at

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/Communication/post.html. Anyone sending

email or making an enquiry will be informed of the official closing date,

which is likely to be during September 1996, and will be sent a copy of

the further particulars for the post once this date is finalised with

our Staff Office.

Dr Judy Delin

Department of English Studies/Language and Communication Research Group

University of Stirling

Stirling FK9 4LA

Scotland

Tel: (+44) (0) 1786 467974

Fax: (+44) (0) 1786 466201

email: jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk

URL: http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/Communication/post.html

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Topic 3:

From: Yorick Wilks <yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk>

Subject: Practical Human-computer conversation by Lake Como 1997

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: PLEASE RECIRCULATE THIS WIDELY

1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION

Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997

We are seeking expressions of interest before formally

announcing a rather different kind of workshop: one that

will survey and demonstrate techniques for practical,

plausible, human computer conversation. The workshop would

be in the spirit of the Loebner Competition meetings, but

would not constitute any kind of "Turing" competition

under controlled deception conditions, but would, we hope,

give opportunity for extensive demonstrations of

working conversational systems, preferably without domain

restrictions.

As well as practical demonstrations we would hope for papers

and discussions on How-To-Do-It: including abstract

discussions of the computer individual as well as reports of

practical experiences of using the large resources and knowledge data

bases now available through forms of information retrieval

and natural language processing and their impact (together

with fast access techniques) on high-quality conversation

simulations. The meeting is not intended to be yet another

get together on linguistic methods for dialogue modelling

or human-computer interaction, but rather based on the

assumption that, in a range of places, great strides are

actually being made in real conversation simulations from

practical techniques and points of view, and that all would

benefit from face-to-face interaction on this, as well as

exploring the industrial/commercial applications of these

technologies in HCI/WWW environments in the very near

future.

The proposed site is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni,

in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como, the

legendary site of Pliny's villa where the two arms of the

lake meet, and one of the most beautiful spots in the world,

though easily reached from Milan. The date, 14-16 July 1997,

immediately follows the EACL/ACL in Madrid.

Working system demonstrations

would be central, and there would also be a range of panels

on aspects of the state of the art.

Interest is solicited by email at the address below from anyone

with new ideas, results or ongoing work to report on any aspect of

human-computer conversation, or those with an interest in or commitment

to the exploitation of this technology.

The emphasis should be on the software techniques for

communication in natural language and NOT on speech recognition

or speech synthesis. Given sufficient interest

a committee will be established and conditions for submission

announced before the end of November 1996. Please put

Serbelloni in the message line of your email. Updatings of

developments for this workshop will be posted to:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/

*********************************

Professor Yorick Wilks

AI and NN Research Group,

Department of Computer Science

University of Sheffield

Regent Court

211 Portobello St.,

Sheffield S1 4DP

UK

phone: (44) 114 282 5561

fax: (44) 114 278 0972

email: yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk

www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/People/Y.Wilks
*********************************

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===Issue 5===
Date: 07 Jul 1996
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TOPICS:

1. User Modeling Conference 1st CFP - <Cecile.Paris@itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

2. Generation thesis available - Lexical Semantics and Knowledge
Representation in Multilingual Sentence Generation - <stede@cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de>
3. Call for Participants - TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA
Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996 - <spb@comp(dot)lancs(dot)ac(dot)uk>

4. 2nd CFP - International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
Bombay, India - December 16-18, 1996 - Deadline Aug 15, 1996 -
<kbcs@konark(dot)ncst(dot)ernet(dot)in>

======================================================================
Topic 1:

Subject: UM97: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Date: June 2-5 1997 - Deadline 25 November 1996

From: Cecile Paris <Cecile.Paris@itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

<center>UM97</center>

<center> SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING</center>

<center>Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, June 2-5 1997</center>

<center>http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ or</center>

<center> http://www.crs4.it/UM97/</center>

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Contents:

Background

Conference Topics

Conference Organization

Brief Submission Instructions

Contact Addresses

Important Dates

————————————— BACKGROUND ——————————————

User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness

and/or usability of software systems in a wide variety of

situations. A user model is an explicit representation of

properties of a particular user. A system that constructs and

consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance

to individual users.

Techniques for user modeling have been developed and evaluated

by researchers in a number of fields, including artificial

intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer

interaction, and information science.

The International Conferences on User Modeling provide a forum

in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these

fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modeling

issues. The size and format of the meetings support intensive

discussion, which often continues long after the conference has

ended.

UM97 follows the Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on

User Modeling, which took place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in

August 1994 and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in January 1996,

respectively. UM97 will include tutorials, invited talks, paper

and poster sessions, a doctoral consortium, workshops, and system

demonstrations.

Accepted papers, as well as summaries of other conference

contributions, will be published in a proceedings volume.

Information about the form of this publication will be made

available via the conference World Wide Web site. The Web site

will also provide access to electronic versions of contributions

to the conference.

The journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction" is

reserving space for expanded versions of the best papers of UM97.

A $500 Best Paper Award is being sponsored by Kluwer Academic

Publishers.

UM97 is being sponsored by AI*IA, the Italian Association for

Artificial Intelligence.

——————————— CONFERENCE TOPICS ————————————

The following nonexhaustive list gives some examples of topics

that are relevant to UM97:

Construction of models of users' ...

* knowledge, beliefs, and misconceptions,
* preferences,
* goals and plans,
* typical behaviors,
 * cognitive styles, ....

Exploitation of user models to achieve ...

* adaptive information filtering and retrieval,
* tailored information presentation,
* transfer of task performance from user to system,
* selection of instructional interventions,
* interface adaptation, ....

Inference techniques involving ...

* neural networks,
* psychometric methods,
* numerical uncertainty management,
* epistemic logic or other logic-based formalisms,
* default reasoning and truth maintenance,
* stereotype hierarchies, ....

Practical issues of ...

* privacy and user model inspectability,
* user model consistency,
* empirical evaluation,
* standardization of user modeling shell systems, ....

Systems for adaptive ...

* tutoring and provision of learning environments,
* explanation of system actions,
* on-line aiding,
* hypermedia and multimodal interaction,
* knowledge-based presentation design,
* product presentation,
* information management on the Internet,
* support of end-user programming,
* accommodation of users with special needs,
* support of collaboration, ....

—————————— CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ——————————

{|
|General Chair:
|-
| Carlo Tasso || University of Udine, Italy
|-
|
|-
|Organizing Chair:
|-
|Alessandro Micarelli ||University of Rome 3, Italy
|-
|
|-
|Program Co-Chairs:
|-
|Anthony Jameson ||University of Saarbruecken, Germany
|-
|Cecile Paris || University of Brighton, UK
|-
|
|-
|Program Committee:
|-
|Nicholas J. Belkin ||Rutgers University, USA
|-
|Beatrice Cahour || CNRS Rouen, France
|-
|Sandra Carberry ||University of Delaware, USA
|-
|Albert Corbett ||Carnegie Mellon University, USA
|-
|Fiorella de Rosis ||University of Bari, Italy
|-
|Oren Etzioni ||University of Washington, USA
|-
|Gerhard Fischer ||University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
|-
|Helen M. Gigley ||Office of Naval Research, USA
|-
|Brad Goodman ||The MITRE Corporation, USA
|-
|Eric Horvitz ||Microsoft Research, USA
|-
|Judy Kay ||Sydney University, Australia
|-
|Alfred Kobsa ||GMD FIT, Germany
|-
|Diane Litman ||AT&T Research, USA
|-
|Pattie Maes ||MIT Media Lab, USA
|-
|Uwe Malinowski ||Siemens Corporate R&D, Germany
|-
|Gordon McCalla ||University of Saskatchewan, Canada
|-
|Michael McTear ||University of Ulster, UK
|-
| Alessandro Micarelli || University of Rome 3, Italy
|-
| Robert J. Mislevy ||Educational Testing Service, USA
|-
| Riichiro Mizoguchi ||Osaka University, Japan
|-
| Edie M. Rasmussen ||University of Pittsburgh, USA
|-
| John Self ||University of Leeds, UK
|-
| Julita Vassileva ||Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany
|-
|Wolfgang Wahlster || DFKI, Germany
|-
| Geoff Webb ||Deakin University, Australia
|-
| Ingrid Zukerman || Monash University, Australia
|-
|
|-
|Doctoral Consortium Organizers:
|-
|Nadja De Carolis ||University of Bari, Italy
|-
|Fiorella de Rosis ||University of Bari, Italy
|-
|
|-
|Workshop Coordinator:
|-
|Christoph G. Thomas ||GMD FIT, Germany
|-
|
|-
|Demonstration Organizer:
|-
|Giorgio Brajnik ||University of Udine, Italy
|}

UM97 is being organized jointly by the Department of

Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, the

Department of Scientific Disciplines of the University of Rome 3,

the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari, and CRS4

(Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in

Sardinia), under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc.

———————— BRIEF SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS —————————

PAPERS AND POSTERS

Submissions are invited that describe original academic or

industrial research on some aspect of user modeling.

Papers should describe significant, mature research; they will

be published in full length in the proceedings and presented in

talks at the conference.

Posters typically describe research which does not yet

represent a substantial advance but which can stimulate the

exchange of ideas. Summaries of posters will be included in the

proceedings.

The timetable and the length requirements for poster and paper

submissions are the same. Submissions to the poster category may

make more use of graphics and tables than is usual for paper

submissions, but they must be self-explanatory. If the authors do

not indicate a preference for the paper or poster category, the

program committee will judge which category is more appropriate.

Submissions must fit within 12 single-spaced pages printed with

a 12-point font. These 12 pages must include all elements of the

submission. Page 1 must include the title of the paper, a short

abstract (150 words), a list of keywords, and the authors' postal

and e-mail addresses and fax and phone numbers. The abstract and

the author information on Page 1 must also be included in an

e-mail message that is sent to the program co-chairs one week

before the submission of the manuscript.

A manuscript can be submitted either electronically (as a

PostScript file) or as hard copy. Details of the procedure for

electronic submission will be found in the full submission

instructions for UM97, which authors can obtain via the

conference Web site or by e-mail from the program co-chairs.

All authors should obtain these full submission instructions,

which will also contain information about style files designed to

facilitate manuscript preparation and general tips on how to

maximize the likelihood of acceptance.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The doctoral consortium will offer PhD students a chance to

discuss their plans and the intermediate results of their

research with a diverse and knowledgeable international audience.

Summaries of the accepted presentations will be included in the

proceedings volume.

Further information on the doctoral symposium, including

information about possible sources of funding, can be obtained

via the UM97 Web site and by e-mail from the doctoral consortium

organizers.

WORKSHOPS

Half-day workshops will permit discussion and debate on topics

of current interest. The format for each workshop will be

determined by the proposer of that workshop, who will also set

any necessary deadlines for participants. Before submitting a

proposal, each proposer should obtain instructions and advice via

the conference Web site and/or by e-mail from the UM97 workshop

coordinator.

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

Various platforms will be available for unrefereed system

demonstrations. Prospective presenters should contact the

demonstration organizer by e-mail and specify their hardware and

software requirements.

——————————— CONTACT ADDRESSES ————————————

Up-to-date conference information and detailed submission

instructions can be obtained via either of the following World

Wide Web sites:

http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ (site in Germany) or

http://www.crs4.it/UM97/ (site in Sardinia)

The following addresses can be used for queries and (where

applicable) for submissions:

ORGANIZING CHAIR

um97-organization@cs.uni-sb.de

Fax: Alessandro Micarelli, +39-6-5573030

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

um97-papers@cs.uni-sb.de

Hard-copy submissions:

Anthony Jameson

Department of Computer Science

University of Saarbruecken

Stuhlsatzenhausweg, Building 36.1

66125 Saarbruecken, Germany

Phone: +49-681-302-2474

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ORGANIZERS

um97-doctoral@cs.uni-sb.de

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR

um97-workshops@cs.uni-sb.de

DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZER

um97-demos@cs.uni-sb.de

———————————— IMPORTANT DATES ————————————

{|
|PAPERS AND POSTERS
|-
| ||
|-
| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of abstracts and
|-
|25 November 1996 ||author information
|-
| ||
|-
| Monday, || Receipt of electronic submissions
|-
| 2 December 1996 ||(optional)
|-
| ||
|-
| Tuesday, || E-mail notification to authors if the
|-
| 3 December 1996 || requirement of hard-copy submission is waived
|-
| ||
|-
| Friday, ||Receipt of 5 hard copies of each
|-
| 6 December 1996 ||manuscript (except where the hard-copy requirement was waived on 3 December)
|-
| ||
|-
|Wednesday, || Notification of authors by e-mail about
|-
| 26 February 1997 || acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
| ||
|-
| Monday, || Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
| 31 March 1997 || camera-ready papers and summaries of posters
|-
| ||

|-
|DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
|-
| ||
|-
| Wednesday, ||Receipt by e-mail of 3-page submissions
|-
|5 February 1997 ||as ASCII text
|-
| ||
|-
| Wednesday, ||Notification to authors by e-mail about
|-
| 5 March 1997 || acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
| ||
|-
| Monday, ||Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
|31 March 1997 || camera-ready summaries of presentations
|-
| ||
|-
|WORKSHOPS
|-
| ||
|-
| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of 3-page workshop
|-
| 20 January 1997 || proposals as ASCII text
|-
| ||
|-
| Friday, || Notification by e-mail to workshop
|-
| 14 February 1997 || proposers about acceptance or rejection of proposals
|-
| ||
|-
| Friday, || Submission, by proposers of accepted
|-
| 21 February 1997 ||workshops, of final calls for participation
|-
| ||
|-
| Tuesday, || Availability via the UM97 Web site
|-
| 25 February 1997 ||and by e-mail of calls for participation in workshops
|-
| ||
|-
|SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS
|-
| ||
|-
|Tuesday, || Registration of system demonstrations
|-
| 15 April 1997 ||by e-mail
|}

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Topic 2:

Subject: Generation thesis available

Date: 20 June 1996

From: Manfred Stede <stede@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Manfred Stede: Lexical semantics and knowledge representation in

multilingual sentence generation.

University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science, 1996.

This thesis develops a new approach to automatic language generation

that focuses on the need to produce a range of different {\em

paraphrases} from the same input representation. One feature of the

system is its solidly grounding representations of word meaning in a

background knowledge base, which enables the production of paraphrases

stemming from certain inferences, rather than from purely lexical

relationships alone.

The system is designed in such a way that the paraphrasing mechanism

extends naturally to a {\em multilingual} generator; specifically, we

will be concerned with producing English and German sentences. The

focus of the system is on {\em lexical} paraphrases, and one of the

contributions of the thesis is in identifying, analyzing and extending

relevant linguistic research so that it can be used to handle the

problems of lexical semantics in a language generation system. The

{\em lexical entries} are more complex than in previous generators,

and they separate the various aspects of word meaning, so that

different ways of paraphrasing can be systematically related to the

different motivations for saying a sentence in a particular way. One

result of accounting for lexical semantics in this fashion is a

formalization of a number of {\em verb alternations}, for which a

generative treatment is given.

While the actual {\em choice} of one paraphrase as the best-suited utterance

in a given situation is not a focal point of the thesis, two dimensions

of {\em preferring} a variant of a sentence are discussed: that of

assigning {\em salience} to the different elements of the sentence, and

that of {\em connotational} or {\em stylistic} features of the utterance.

These dimensions are integrated into the system, and it can thus

determine a preferred paraphrase from a set of alternatives.

To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, the proposed

generation architecture has been implemented as a protoype, along with a

domain model that serves as the background knowledge base for specifying

the input to the generator. A range of generated examples is presented

to show the functionality of the system.

> If interested in either a hardcopy or a postscript file, please

> contact the author at stede@cs.tu-berlin.de

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Topic 3:

Subject: Call for Participants TALC96 - Teaching and Language Corpora

Date: Lanncaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996

From: "Mr S P Botley" <spb@comp.lancs.ac.uk>

<center> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS</center>

<center>TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA</center>

<center>Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996</center>

<center><http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/></center>

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well

established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching

purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create

teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora

by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages.

Talc96 will build upon the success of Talc94, which brought together

researchers and teachers who are involved in such work, to take part in

an international exchange of current experience and expertise.

THEMES

KEY THEME: Talc96 will have a special focus on evaluating the claims

made for corpora in linguistics and language teaching.

OTHER THEMES: which the conference is expected to cover include -

1.) The use of corpora in student led learning and investigation.

2.) Software for corpus based language and linguistics learning.

3.) Developing corpora for teaching purposes.

4.) The exploitation of corpus based teaching and learning materials.

5.) The theory and practice of corpus based teaching and learning.

WORKSHOPS

Talc96 will also host several workshops related to teaching and

language corpora. To give an example of what those workshops may be,

Talc94 had a variety of workshops such as "Multilingual Corpus

Building" and "Concordancing and Corpus Retrieval". Workshops will be

of one to two hour duration.

<center>TALC96 - Programme of Events</center>

Is available at <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/>

Please register BEFORE 21st July 1996, otherwise we cannot guarantee

availability of accommodation.

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Topic 4:

Subject: KBCS-96 (2nd CFP) Deadline Extended

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 - Deadline 15 August 1996

From: KBCS Word Processing <kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in>

<center> Second Call for Papers</center>

<center>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON</center>

<center> KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS</center>

<center> National Centre for Software Technology</center>

<center> Bombay, India</center>

<center> December 16-18, 1996</center>

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 15, 1996

<center>URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html</center>
____________________________________________________________________________
The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be held

in Bombay, India during December 16-18, 1996. The conference is intended to

act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of

Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. There will be a two day

conference during December 16-17, 1996 followed by one day of

post-conference tutorials on December 18, 1996.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on

all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the

following:
{|
|o AI Applications ||o AI Architectures
|-
|o Artificial Life ||o Automatic Programming
|-
|o Cognitive Modeling ||o Expert Systems
|-
|o Foundations of AI ||o Genetic Algorithms
|-
|o Information Retrieval ||o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
|-
|o Knowledge Acquisition ||o Knowledge Representation
|-
|o Machine Learning ||o Machine Translation
|-
|o Natural Language Processing ||o Neural Networks
|-
|o Planning and Scheduling ||o Reasoning
|-
|o Robotics ||o Search Techniques
|-
|o Speech Processing ||o Theorem Proving
|-
|o Uncertainty Handling ||o User Interfaces
|-
|o User Modeling || o Vision
|}

Programme Committee:

{|
|S. Arunkumar, IIT, Bombay ||Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
|-
|Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay ||Margaret A. Boden, U of Sussex, UK
|-
|Nick Cercone, U of Regina, Canada ||B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
|-
|R. Chandrasekar, NCST, Bombay ||S. K. Goyal, GTE Labs , USA
|-
|S. S. Gupta, TUL, Bombay ||J. R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
|-
|Aravind K. Joshi, ||R. A. Kowalski, Imperial College, UK
|-
|U of Pennsylvania, USA
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|H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore ||M. Narasimha Murthy, IISc, Bangalore
|-
|R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore ||S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay (Chair)
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|P. V. S. Rao, TIFR, Bombay ||Patrick Saint-Dizier,U of Paul Sabatier, France

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|R. Sangal, IIT, Kanpur ||R. Uthurusamy, GMR, USA
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|M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore
|}
Format of Submission:

Authors should submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words (including

figures and references) either electronically or in hard copy. Papers

should be in English. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200

words in length. Papers outside the specified length are subject to

rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the authors'

names and affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given

only on a separate cover sheet. Hard copy submissions should be sent in

triplicate. Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following

formats: plain text, Postscript, Latex, Microsoft Word, or Wordstar.

Submissions in electronic form are preferred.

Send papers to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Paper Submission Deadlines:

o Papers due: August 15, 1996

o Acceptance Notification: October 15, 1996

o Camera Ready Copy due: December 1, 1996

Call for Tutorials:

Proposals are invited for post-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be

half-day or full-day, and will be held on December 18th, 1996. The

proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page

topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their

qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Tutorial Submission Deadlines:

o Proposal Submission: July 31, 1996

o Acceptance Notification: August 31, 1996

o Complete Tutorial materials due: December 1, 1996

Send proposals to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Organizing Committee:

{|
|George Arakal, NCST (Chair) ||K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, NCST
|-
|P. Ravi Prakash, NCST ||Durgesh D. Rao, NCST
|-
|M. Sasikumar, NCST ||T. Suresh, NCST
|}

For further information please refer to the KBCS-96 home page or

write to the KBCS-96 Secretariat.

___________________________________________________________________________

Address

{|
|KBCS-96 Secretariat || Phone : +91 (22) 620 1606
|-
|National Centre for Software Technology ||Fax : +91 (22) 621 0139
|-
|Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9 ||E-mail : kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in
|-
|Juhu, Bombay 400 049, India
|}

URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
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==2005==

===Issue 1===

SIGGEN Newsletter

www.siggen.org

Date: 05 June 2005

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TOPICS:

1. INF: Recent SIGGEN updates; board election, state of SIGGEN

2. CfB: Call for Bids for INLG'06

3. CfP: EWNLG'05 in Aberdeen [Early Registration by June 17]

4. CfP: Symposium on Dialog Modeling and Generation [July 7]

5. CfP: Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation [July 14]

6. TUT: Statistical Machine Translation and Generation [Aug. 11]

7. JOB: Postdoctoral Position in Adaptive Spoken Language, NY

8. JOB: Research Fellow/PostDoc, Aberdeen

9. Stu: Funded Studentship, Aberdeen

10. ANN: Surge 2.3 now available

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{|
|SIGGEN Board Members:||
|-
|Tilman Becker ||Tilman.Becker(at)dfki(dot)de
|-
|Charles Callaway ||ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
|-
|Irene Langkilde-Geary ||irenelg(at)cs(dot)byu(dot)edu
|-
|David McDonald ||dmcdonald(at)bbn(dot)com
|-
|David Reitter ||dreitter(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

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TOPIC 1: Recent SIGGEN updates; board election, state of SIGGEN

Dear SIGGEN members,

Tilman Becker, the last remaining member from the previous SIGGEN
board, has been joined by the 4 new board members from this winter's
election: Charles Callaway, Irene Langkilde-Geary, David McDonald, and
student representative Dave Reitter.

As mentioned before, the website has been moved to www.siggen.org,
(change your bookmarks!) hosted at DFKI, and has been updated, most
significantly in regards to the membership on the Who's who page.
This page, which now lists 145 members, has been revamped to ensure
that all links are valid. If you, or someone you know, would like to
be added to this list, please don't hesitate to email us. The mailing
list has been similarly checked to ensure valid email addresses, and
now contains 209 members. This means that those who do not receive
copies of this newsletter are not currently on the email list, not
considered to be members, and thus cannot vote in future elections.
(A copy of the current SIGGEN constitution is located at:
http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/constitution_v2.html)

Your board members will be attending a wide array of conferences this
summer, so if you see us, please don't hesitate to talk to us, or of
course send us email. We will quickly respond to any suggestions or
comments you may have.

-- The SIGGEN Board

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TOPIC 2: SIGGEN: Call for Bids to Host INLG-2006

http://www.siggen.org/event/bidinlg06.html

SIGGEN (Special Interest Group in Generation of the Association for
Computational Linguistics) invites proposals to host the International
Natural Language Generation (INLG) Conference in 2006. INLG
conferences are usually held in the summer, and sometimes co-located
with other NLP events, such as ACL. INLG attendance is usually on the
order of 80 people (that is, more than 50 and less than 120).

As INLG-2004 was in the ACL European region, we especially welcome and
will prefer proposals for holding INLG-2006 in the ACL Americas or
Asia/Pacific regions.

Draft proposals should be emailed to ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk by 30 Sept
2005.

These proposals should outline:

* conference location and practicalities (venue, accomodation,
meals). Note that INLG's have traditionally been held in places
which are secluded but easily accessible (within a few hours drive
of a major international airport), such as Brighton, UK (2004);
mid-State New York (2002); Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (2000);
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada (1998); Hertsmonceux Castle, UK
(1996); and Kennebunkport, USA (1994).

* approximate conference date. Will it be possible for INLG
attendees to combine attendance at INLG with attendance at other
conferences of interest to the NLG community (for example, INLG-02
immediately preceded ACL-02, INLG-98 immediately preceded ACL-98,
and INLG-92 immediately followed ANLP-92).

* rough budget and expected sponsorship. Approximately how much will
participants need to pay to attend, including accomodation and
meals as well as conference registration? Note that attendance
cost for previous INLG's has generally been US$500 or less.

* local arrangements. Who will be in charge of organising the
conference, and how will finances be handled (eg, can participants
pay by credit card)?

Draft proposals will be considered by a committee that includes some
SIGGEN board members and previous INLG chairs. This committee may
contact proposers and request additional information.

For more information, see:

 * http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/inlg04/ for information about INLG-2004. 

* http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ for information about INLG-2002. 

* http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/bids/ for draft bids for ACL-01 (a
bit different from INLG draft bids, but useful as examples). 

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TOPIC 3: EWNLG'05 in Aberdeen [Early Registration by June 17]

 Call for Participation

8-10 August 2005 Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

 Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language
processing that focuses on the generation of written texts in natural
languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of
information, generally from databases or knowledge
sources. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of
different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual
reports, summaries, machine translation, dialogue applications, and
embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the
automated production of language is associated with a large number of
highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality
poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues
include content selection, text organization, production of referring
expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as
well as coordination with other media.

 The workshop continues a biennial series of workshops on natural
language generation that has been running since 1987. Previous
European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein,
Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, Toulouse (2001) and Budapest (2003). The
series provides a regular forum for presentation of research in this
area, both for NLG specialists and for researchers who may not think
of themselves as part of the NLG community.

 The 2005 workshop will span the interest areas of natural language
generation and Artificial Intelligence, with a special focus on
research that integrates NLG with AI, including vision, robotics,
intelligent agents, and knowledge discovery. We also encourage papers
that investigate the use of state-of-the-art generation technology in
real world applications to handle both spoken and text output, and
apply language generation techniques to interactive AI systems like
communicating robots, to allow the user to enter into short
conversations with the system in search for information. There will be
demonstrations of working NLG systems, and special sessions for
posters describing real-world applications and advanced language
technology systems.

 Papers will be presented on formal, corpus-based, implementational and
analytical work on conventional NLG topics (realisation,
microplanning, etc), and especially papers with a focus on the
following themes:

 * Embodied agents and robot communication (special track)

* NLG for real-world applications

* Use of ontologies in NLG

* Statistical methods for NLG

 * Information organization for planning and NLG

 * Robust methods and techniques for NLG

* Evaluation of NLG systems

Invited Speaker:

Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California) will give an invited talk on Tree Transducers for Machine
Translation and Generation

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TOPIC 4: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation

 Call for Participation

July 7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing
together the dialogue modelling and language generation/production
communities and will provide an opportunity for researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including linguistics, computer science and
psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas.

We invited talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in
dialogue modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003, and
many other recent papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig,
2003, and, again, many more) and the influence of social relations
between interlocutors on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal
work by Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and asked presenters to shed light
on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue modelling
by:

* relating them to issues in language generation/production or

* drawing out similarities and differences between applications of
such notions in discourse generation versus interpretation or

* describing computational/implemented models, in particular, for
generation/production or

* comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering approaches
to dialogue modelling. 

The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones that deal with
natural language interpretation or structural properties of discourse.

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TOPIC 5: Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation

Call for Participation

July 14, Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

We aim to bring together researchers who use corpora for NLG research
either in the traditional, manual way, or automatically, involving
machine learning and statistical methods. The goal of the workshop is
to present and discuss current research, to compare manual and
automatic corpus exploitation, to evaluate achievements, and to
identify challenges for the future.

Registration is open at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 website. Please
note that Using Corpora for NLG is a full-day workshop, and that you
do not need to register for the main conference. Simply select the
appropriate options in the registration form. The workshop
registration fee is 70 Pounds.

Papers will be presented on all aspects of using corpora for natural
language generation, including, but not limited to:

 * (Partial) automation of traditional corpus analysis for NLG

* Issues in annotating corpora for NLG

* Statistical approaches to deep and/or surface generation

* Machine learning methods for deep and/or surface generation

* Role of corpora in the evaluation of NLG systems

 * Reuse of resources developed for NLU (e.g. treebanks) in NLG

 * Domain-specific vs. general purpose corpora for NLG 

We would like to emphasise that where we say `NLG' we mean to include
the language generation components of machine translation and dialogue
systems.

Invited Speaker:

Irene Langkilde-Geary (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA) will give
an invited talk with the provisional title: Constraint programming as
a Whiteboard Architecture for Probabilistic NLG.

Panel on Exploiting Corpora for NLG:

We will hold a panel discussion on the topics of the workshop. The
panel members are:

Chris Brew, Linguistics, Ohio State University, USA

Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, USA

Ehud Reiter, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK

Donia Scott, CRC, Open University, UK

Bonnie Webber, Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

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TOPIC 6: Tutorial: Statistical Machine Translation and Generation

August 11, Aberdeen, Scotland (Immediately following EWNLG'05)

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/knight.html

Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA

The statistical approach to machine translation provides a set of
techniques for (1) automatically learning translation knowledge from
bilingual data, and (2) applying that knowledge to translate
previously-unseen sentences. When it was first introduced, statistical
MT was far too slow and inaccurate to be useful -- it was an
interesting lab experiment. In 2005, we see statistical MT
significantly outperforming other methods in many language pairs and
domains, at speeds permitting commercial applications like foreign
news broadcast translation. What made this possible? This tutorial
will cover the basic theory and the major technical advances of the
past few years. Of course, there is a long way to go! The tutorial
will also cover known limitations of current MT models and describe
current research trends. We will also discuss problems in natural
language generation, where the input is typically more abstract than
foreign text, and describe how statistical MT research is currently
exploiting linguistic categories.

This tutorial is free of charge. It is hosted by the Natural Language
Generation group at the University of Aberdeen. We are grateful for
the support of EPSRC grant EP/C523156/1 which has made this tutorial
possible.

If you are interested in attending this tutorial, please send an email
to ccameron(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk so that you can be allocated a place and
informed of any further developments. For more information, contact
Chris Mellish (cmellish(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk).

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TOPIC 7: Postdoctoral Position in Adaptive Spoken Language

StonyBrook, NY

The Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science Departments at Stony
Brook University are collaborating on an innovative project, funded by
the National Science Foundation: "Adaptive Spoken Dialog with Human
and Computer Partners." We seek a postdoctoral associate to
collaborate with us. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in
Psychology, Linguistics, or Computer Science, or a relevant
interdisciplinary field.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following:
experiment design, statistics, linguistic phonetics, computational
linguistics, speech processing, psycholinguistics techniques such as
eyetracking.

Depending on the candidate's background and qualifications, duties
will include:

1) Contributing to empirical (laboratory and corpus-based) studies of
language use (both comprehension and production). This involves
working with human subjects, designing experiments, collecting
data, and conducting detailed analyses of text and spoken corpora

2) Contributing to our efforts to model human language behavior and
test computational models using data.

3) Generating independent sub-projects relevant to project's research
questions.

4) Supervising graduate and undergraduate student researchers in
day-to-day activities across one or more projects conducted within
the PI's laboratories

5) Assisting with management of laboratory resources, such as ordering
equipment, software installation, etc.

6) Writing up results for publication

7) Traveling to conferences and workshops as appropriate

8) Developing expertise in relevant techniques and procedures that
span Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science

This is a full time position. The Research Foundation of SUNY is a
private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research
Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines, and
availability of funding. Projected start date: January 1, 2006
(flexible)

Application Procedure: Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled. More details about the project can be found at
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~adaptation/. Applications for the may be
submitted on-line at http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Admin/CampusJob.nsf
via the "Postdoctoral positions" link, or else submit a cover letter
and resume to:

Prof. Susan E. Brennan

Department of Psychology

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, New York 11794-2500

Fax: 631-632-7876

Stony Brook University, flagship campus of the S.U.N.Y. system, is a
world-class, student-centered research university located 60 miles
from New York City.

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TOPIC 8: Research Fellow/PostDoc: Towards a Unified Algorithm for the generation of referring expressions

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Applications due: July 15, 2005

Contact: Dr Kees van Deemter

kvdeemte(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk

Background:

Natural Language Generation programs generate text from an underlying
Knowledge Base. It can be difficult to find a mapping from the
information in the Knowledge Base to the words in a
sentence. Difficulties arise, for example, when the Knowledge Base
uses `names' (i.e., databases keys) that a hearer/reader does not
understand. This can happen, for instance, if the Knowledge Base
contains an artificial name like `#Jones083', because `Jones' alone is
not uniquely distinguishing; it is also true if the Knowledge Base
deals with entities for which no names at all are in common usage
(e.g., a specific tree or a chair). In all such cases, the program has
to "invent" a description that enables the reader to identify the
referent. In the case of Mr. Jones, for example, the program could
give his name and address; in the case of a tree, some longer
description may be necessary (e.g., `the green oak on the corner of
... and ...'. The technical term for this set of problems is
Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE). GRE is a key aspect of
almost any Natural Language Generation system.

Aims:

Existing GRE algorithms tend to focus on one particular class of
referring expressions, for example conjunctions of atomic or
relational properties (e.g., `the black dog', `the book on the
table'). Our research is aimed at designing and implementing a new
algorithm for the generation of referring expressions that generates
appropriate descriptions in a far greater variety of situations than
any of its predecessors. The algorithm will be more complete than its
predecessors because it is able to construct a greater variety of
descriptions (involving negations, disjunctions, relations, vagueness,
etc.). The descriptions generated should also be more appropriate
(i.e., more natural in the eyes of a human hearer/reader), because the
algorithm will be based on empirical studies involving corpora and
controlled experiments. Among other things, these empirical studies
will address the question under what circumstances the descriptions
should be logically under- or overspecific; they will also allow us to
prune the search space (i.e., the space of all descriptions) which
would otherwise threaten to make the problem intractible. The project
combines (psycho)linguistic, computational and logical challenges and
should be of interest to people whose intellectual home is in either
of these areas.

General Info:

http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/tuna/TUNA-index.html

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TOPIC 9: Funded Studentship: Managing Ambiguity in Generated Text

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Applications due: July 15, 2005
{|
|Contact: ||Dr Kees van Deemter
|-
| ||kvdeemte(at)csd(dot)abdn(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

General Info for prospective students at Aberdeen:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply5

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TOPIC 10: Surge 2.3 now available for download

{|
|Contact: ||Charles Callaway
|-
| ||ccallawa(at)inf(dot)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk
|}

Surge 2.3, the latest version of the SURGE English grammar, has been
packaged for download at the following location. Improvements have
been made for written and spoken dialogue, XML and LATEX formatting,
punctuation, and additional coverage rules derived from the Penn
TreeBank. For use with FUF5.3.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/index-c.html

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===Issue 2 (lost)===
===Issue 1 (lost)===
==1998==

===Issue 1===

Date: 25 Mar 1998

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TOPICS:

1. A: INLG Registration & Program [Act by May 1st 1998]

2. CFP: TAG+ Workshop [Philadelphia - Deadline Apr 15th 1998]

3. A: CSLU Spring Short Courses [Portland, OR - May 5 - May 18]

4. JOB: ITRI Brighton PhD Studentship [Apply by Apr 30, 1998]

5. CFP: COLING/ACL98 Discourse Relations Workshop [Deadline Apr 6]

6. CFP: Special issue NRHM Adaptivity and User Modeling [Deadline Jun 1]

7. CFP: Computational Treatment of Portuguese - Brazil [Deadline May 4]

8. A: KPML Mailing List

9. P: Diana McKinnie [Generating reports from dictated X-ray reports]

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TOPIC 1:

A: INLG Registration & Program [Act by May 1st 1998]

From: Graeme Hirst <gh(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>

9th International Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

 5-7 August 1998

Prince of Wales Hotel 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Preliminary details of the program and registration information and
forms are now available for the 9th biennial Workshop on Natural
Language Generation. 

This message gives basic information on participation. For full
information, please visit the INLG-98 Website:
 http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE:
The workshop will begin with an opening reception on the evening of
Tuesday 4 August, and end with lunch on Friday 7 August.

The program includes approximately 30 papers, demonstrations, and a
panel session to be presented over 2 1/2 days. (The complete list of
accepted papers is on the conference Web site.) 

In addition, the social program includes an outing to Niagara Falls
with dinner at the top of the Skylon Tower.

LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION:
The workshop will be held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, in the scenic
town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is easily accessible from Toronto
International Airport. See our Web page on transportation for details
of transfers to Niagara-on-the-Lake from Toronto International Airport,
on Buffalo Airport as an alternative, and for directions to
Niagara-on-the-Lake by car, bus, and train.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION:
A discount accommodation-and-meal package has been negotiated with the
Prince of Wales Hotel for the workshop. To get the discount, you must
book your accommodation on the conference registration form, which is
available from our Web site.

Registration paid by credit card will be accepted by e-mail and fax.

NOTE!!! Space at the workshop is limited. We will allocate space in
the order that registrations are received, except that a space will be
held for one author of each submitted paper (whether accepted or not)
until **1 May 1998**. If the workshop is oversubscribed before the
final June deadline, we will endeavour to find additional space, but
cannot promise to succeed nor that any space found will be as cheap as
the reserved space. Workshop registration and hotel reservations must
be received by **1 June 1998**. Any unassigned hotel rooms will be
released after this date. Late registrants will be accommodated only if
space is available, and will have to pay the hotel's full rack rates.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
We anticipate having funds to subsidize attendance at the workshop by
graduate students and unfunded researchers. Details should be known by
mid-April.

TOURISM:
See the INLG Web pages for links to information on tourism in the
Niagara region, Toronto, and Montreal.

TRANSPORTATION TO MONTREAL FOR COLING:
The workshop is to be held in the week immediately prior to the joint
conference of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998).
After the workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend
COLING / ACL directly to the Toronto train station for an express
train to Montreal.

WORKSHOP SPONSOR AND ORGANIZERS:
The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University of
Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General enquiries concerning registration and accommodation:

Jean Webster, University of Waterloo

jrwebster(at)icr(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca 

phone +1 519-888-4567 extension 5076.

General workshop questions:
Chrysanne DiMarco, University of Waterloo
cdimarco(at)logos(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca
 phone +1 519 888 4443

For more information, program, and registration forms, visit the
INLG-98 Website:
http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

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TOPIC 2:

CFP: TAG+ Workshop [Philadelphia - Deadline Apr 15th 1998]

From: Jennifer MacDougall <jmacdoug(at)central(dot)cis(dot)upenn(dot)edu>

<center>TAG+ WORKSHOP -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

August 1 to August 3, 1998

TAG TUTORIALS -- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

July 28 to July 31, 1998

Philadelphia, PA, USA
URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html</center>

The fourth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks
(hence the + after TAG) will be held at the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in August 1998,
from August 1 to August 3. Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl
(1990), UPenn (1992), and Univ. Paris 7 (1994).

Papers on all aspects of TAG (linguistic, mathematical, computational,
and applicational), as well as papers relating TAGs to other
frameworks, are invited. As in the past there will be some invited
talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships
to TAGs (for example, Categorial Grammars and HPSG).

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts should be at most two pages (exclusive of references), and
should be submitted in ASCII format, as a .ps file, or as SELF-CONTAINED latex file to jmacdoug (at) central (dot) cis (dot) upenn (dot) edu. (If email
is not available, please send the abstract to the address given
below.) Please indicate on the abstract if you would prefer to give a
short presentation (10 minutes) or a long one (30 minutes). The
abstract should contain your name, address, and email address.
Proceedings including extended versions (4 pages) of accepted
abstracts will be available at the workshop.

{|
|Deadline for submission for abstracts: || April 15
|-
|Notification of acceptance: || May 15
|-
|Deadline for submission of camera-ready||
|-
|extended abstract:|| July 6
|-
|Workshop Dates: || August 1 to August 3
|}

If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we
would appreciate it if you could inform us by email by July 6 (unless
you have already done so). If you would like to present a demo,
please let us know as soon as possible, including information about
required hard and software.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeille (Universit'e Paris 7)

Tilman Becker (DFKI)

Christy Doran (University of Pennsylvania)

Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University)

Klaus Netter (DFKI)

Richard Oehrle (University of Arizona)

Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)

Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)

Yuka Tateisi (University of Tokyo)

K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)

David Weir (University of Sussex)

CONTACT ADDRESS:

Jennifer MacDougall

553 Moore Building

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

USA

Telephone: (215) 898-3191

FAX: (215) 898-0587

Email: jmacdoug (at) central (dot) cis (dot) upenn (dot) edu

TUTORIAL:

Prior to the workshop there will be a tutorial (including labs and
demos) from July 28 to July 31 1998. Details about the tutorial will
be sent out soon. We are trying to get some partial support for some
of the students attending the tutorials. If you may be interested in
attending this tutorial, please contact Jennifer MacDougall at the
address above (preferably by email) and we will send you more
information. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeille (Paris 7)

Tilman Becker (DFKI)

Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)

Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)

K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)

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TOPIC 3:

A: CSLU Spring Short Courses [Portland, OR - May 5 - May 18]

From: "Terri Durham" <durham(at)cse(dot)ogi(dot)edu>

Institute in Portland, Oregon will be giving two spring short courses in May
to coincide with the ICASSP '98 Conference in Seattle Washington.

Please visit our web page for a full description of each course and to fill
out your registration form. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/shortcourse2/

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to give me a call.

Thank You,

Terri Durham

CSLU Center Administrator

PO Box 91000 Portland, OR. 97291

20000 NW Walker Rd., Beaverton, OR. 97006

Phone: 503-690-1630 // Fax: 503-690-1306

May 5-8th Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Instructors:

Paul Taylor

Center for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh

Alan Black

Center for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh

Michael Macon

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

May 18-22 Building Spoken Dialogue Systems

Instructors:

Stephen Sutton

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

Teaching Assistants:

Andrew Cronk

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

Ed Kaiser

Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute

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TOPIC 4:
JOB: ITRI Brighton PhD Studentship [Apply by Apr 30, 1998]

From: postgrad-admissions(at)itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk

<center> Information Technology Research Institute

University of Brighton

PhD Studentship for October 1998</center>

Application deadline: 30 April 1998

The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) invites
applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence
in October 1998. The studentship will be awarded in one (or more)
of the following topics in Computational Linguistics:

DOCUMENT GENERATION (including TEXT GENERATION): architectures;
corpus analysis; diagrammatic reasoning; discourse; evaluation;
hybrid generation; implementation; layout; multilinguality;
multimodality; representation languages; pragmatics; tools

LEXICONS: corpus analysis; evaluation; lexical statistics;
lexicalized grammars; lexicography; lexicon induction from text;
multilinguality; representation; tools; tuning; word sense
disambiguation

NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES: dialogue; interface design

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics.

EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents
of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other
EU residents are only eligible for fees (and so would need to be
able to support themselves during their studies).

The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently
approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general
information on EPSRC studentships, please consult
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm.

Further information on the Institute's research programme can be
found on the ITRI home page (http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk) and
information about students and how to apply on our research
students page (http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/students).

If we already have your application on file for consideration this
year, you do not need to apply again.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 1998

For additional advice and information, please contact:

Ms. Vivienne Wicks, Research Administrator
Information Technology Research Institute
 University of Brighton
Lewes Rd.
Brighton
BN2 4GJ, UK

Email: postgrad-admissions (at) itri (dot) brighton (dot) ac (dot) uk
Tel: +44 1273 642900
Fax: +44 1273 642908

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TOPIC 5:

CFP: COLING/ACL98 Discourse Relations Workshop [Deadline Apr 6]

From: <stede(at)cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de>

<center>Coling-ACL '98 workshop</center>

<center> "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers”</center>

<center> August 15, 1998</center>

<center> Universit� de Montr�al</center>

<center>Montr�al/Canada</center>

(See also: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html)

The notion of discourse relation has received many different
interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one
another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that
intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and
that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including
so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and
other markers.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on
discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic
traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the
workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of
linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one
or more of the following questions:

o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers
(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?

o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with
potential realizations?

o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled?
Are there any that are never lexically signalled?

o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to
signal a relation?

o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at
all?

o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate
signals for a given relation?

o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other
decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph
structure)?

o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations
from surface cues?

o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as
"and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?

o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for
both analysis and production?

o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the
entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization
decision? What features would one like to have handy in a
representation so that choices can be made easily?

o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and
written language?

o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above
issues?

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)
Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)

Requirements for submission

 Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.
Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the
text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11
to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by
ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty Papers
can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or
as hardcopies.

Submissions from North America should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

hovy (at) isi (dot) edu

Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following:

{|
|Manfred Stede || Leo Wanner
|-
|TU Berlin ||Computer Science Department
|-
|KIT Project Group || Intelligent Systems Group
|-
|Sekr. FR 6-10 ||University of Stuttgart
|-
|Franklinstr. 28/29 || Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
|-
|D-10587 Berlin || D-70565 Stuttgart
|-
|Germany || Germany
|-
|stede(at)cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de || wannerlo(at)informatik(dot)uni-stuttgart(dot)de
|}

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: April 6, 1998

Deadline for hardcopy submissions: April 9 (arrival date)

Notification of acceptance: May 25, 1998

Final manuscripts due: June 15, 1998

Program committee

{|
|||Sandra Carberry (U Delaware)
|-
| || Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh)
|-
| || Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI)
|-
| || Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh)
|-
| || Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh)
|-
| || Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.)
|-
| || Ted Sanders (U Utrecht)
|-
| || Donia Scott (U Brighton)
|-
| || Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg)
|-
| || Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
|-
| || Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College)
|-
| || Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs)
|-
| || Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart)
|}

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TOPIC 6:

CFP: Special issue NRHM Adaptivity and User Modeling [Deadline Jun 1]

From: Maria Milosavljevic <mariam(at)alba.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU>

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

1998 call for submissions on the themes of 'adaptivity and user modeling
in hypertext/hypermedia systems', and 'hypermedia for museums and
cultural heritage’.

NRHM (previously Hypermedia, one of the original journals on the subject)
is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. The new editorial team has introduced themed
issues, each issue (normally 10-12 papers) will review and explore one or
two topical themes from a variety of perspectives. The main theme of the
1997 issue was the evaluation of hypermedia and multimedia systems.

The themes for the 1998 issue of the New Review will be:

- hypermedia for museums and cultural heritage
Theme editors Douglas Tudhope and Daniel Cunliffe

- adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems:
Guest editors Peter Brusilovsky and Maria Milosavljevic (also see
Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia Home Page
http://www.education.uts.edu.au/projects/ah/index.html)

Papers should be submitted to the appropriate theme editors no later than
June 1st 1998. For Instructions to Authors, see
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/ or contact the Editor.

Submissions are welcomed on all aspects of the two themes, including but
not restricted to:

Adaptive hypermedia
{|
||| user modeling in adaptive hypermedia
|-
| ||adaptive educational hypermedia systems
|-
| ||adaptive information systems
|-
| ||adaptive museum hypermedia
|-
| ||adaptive navigation support
|-
| ||natural language techniques for dynamic hypertext generation
|-
| || adaptive WWW navigation aids
|-
| ||adaptive visualization of hypertext structure
|-
| || empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia
|-
| ||content adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia
|-
| ||personalized information spaces
|-
| || adaptivity and adaptability in a hypermedia context
|-
| ||adaptive information retrieval
|}

Guest editors

Peter Brusilovsky - plb (at) cs (dot) cmu (dot) edu

School of Computer Science,

Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA 15213,

USA.

Maria Milosavljevic - mariam (at) mpce (dot) mq (dot) edu (dot) au

MRI Language Technology Group,

Macquarie University,

Sydney, NSW 2109,

Australia.

Hypermedia for Museums and Cultural heritage
{|

| || hypermedia link services
|-
| ||networked access

|-
| ||time-varying interactive presentations

|-
| ||image, audio and video databases

|-
| || navigation design

|-
| ||intelligent hypermedia and agents

|-
| ||web-based museum hypermedia

|-
| ||spatial and temporal models

|-
| ||evaluation and studies of use

|-
| || metadata and intellectual access

|-
| ||thesauri and semantic representations

|-
| ||copyright /IPR for digital multimedia standards
|}

Editor

Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope (at) glamorgan (dot) ac (dot) uk

Department of Computer Studies

University of Glamorgan

Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL

Wales, UK

fax +1443-482715

tel +1443-482271

Associate Editor (US) Andrew Dillon - adillon (at) ucs (dot) indiana (dot) edu

Associate Editor (UK) Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif (at) glamorgan (dot) ac (dot) uk

For subscription information, contact

Taylor Graham Publishing, 500 Chesham House,

150 Regent Street, London W1R 5FA, UK.

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TOPIC 7:

CFP: Computational Treatment of Portuguese - Brazil [Deadline May 4]

From: lucia (at) dc(dot) ufscar(dot) br (Lucia Rino)

III PROPOR

WORKSHOP ON THE COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT OF THE

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

November 3-4, 1998

PUCRS Campus

Porto Alegre - RS

BRAZIL

Sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)

Organized by the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Along with the XIV SBIA'98 (Artificial Inteligence Brazilian Symposium), to
be held in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in the PUCRS Campus between 04 and 06
of November, 1998, there will be carried out the III PROPOR - III WORKSHOP
ON THE COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE - on the 3rd and 4th of November, 1998.

The former two PROPOR workshops occurred in Portugal and in Brazil,
respectively in Feb/1993 and Oct/1996. The third one intends to bring
together researchers working on Computational Linguistics, specially those
whose work is in any sense related to the processing of the Portuguese
language. The main goals of the workshop are to provide the means for the
researchers to exchange information and to explore and discuss the
availability of resources to solve problems related to Natural Language,
having Portuguese as the central language. Contributions should address one
or more of the following topics:

* The automatic interpretation of the Portuguese language

* The automatic generation of the Portuguese language

* Verbal discourse processing: problems and resources of the Portuguese language

* Differences and similarities between the treatment of spoken and written Portuguese

The above topics naturally include a broader discussion on Natural Language
Processing as such, and other issues in the Computational Linguistics
spectrum. Researchers are invited to submit articles or demoes, in order to
integrate, and exchange, experiences with the participants during the
event.

Workshop organization
The workshop will consist of technical pannels, conference and discussion
sessions. Participants are also invited to present demoes and systems
resulting from project and development of software.

Requirements for submission

Papers and software are invited that address any of the topics listed
above, preference given to conclusive work. Work reporting ongoing MsC or
PhD research can be submitted to the Workshop of Unconcluded Dissertations
and Theses, which is held along with SBIA'98. In this case, submission
requirements can be found in the following address:

http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~flavio/sbia98/sbia98.html.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Technical papers and software descriptions: May 04, 1998 (mailing date)

Notification of acceptance: July 01, 1998 (by email)

=46inal manuscripts due: August 15, 1998 (mailing date)

No electronic submission will be accepted.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Manuscripts must be written either in Portuguese or in English. Please use
A4 letter format, doubleline spacing, classical fonts such as Times Roman
or Computer Modern, 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and
title. Maximum length is 15 pages including figures and references. Small
caps or figures must be avoided, since the manuscripts may be reduced for
the proceedings. The content of the first page must include the title of
the article, the author(s) fullname(s), institution of origin, address, and
a summary of the work. Faxed or emailed work will not be accepted for
revision. Software descriptions must contain title, goals and a short
characterization, besides the names of the authors, their institution of
origin and address, and the specification of software/hardware needs for
demoes.

=46our hardcopy copies of both, technical papers or software descriptions,
must be accompanied by a letter of submission containing the title of the
work, authors, and the name of the contact person. Submissions should be
sent to:

<center> Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima</center>

<center>Instituto de Informatica -PUCRS</center>

<center> Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - Pr=E9dio 16 - Sala 160</center>

<center>CEP 90619-900 Porto Alegre Brasil</center>

<center> E-mail: vera (at) andros(dot)inf(dot)pucrs(dot)br</center>

Organizing committee
{|
| ||Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima (PUCRS)

|-
| ||Flavio Moreira de Oliveira (PUCRS)

|-
| ||Rosa Maria Viccari (UFRGS)</center>
|}

Program committee
{|
| ||Ariadne M. B. R. Carvalho (IC-UNICAMP)
|-
| || Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza (DI-PUCRJ)

|-
| ||Elisabete Ranchhod (FL-UL)

|-
| ||Isabel Trancoso (INESC)

|-
| ||Jacques Robin (DI-UFPe)

|-
| ||Jos=E9 Gabriel Pereira Lopes (FCT-UNL)

|-
| || Laura S. Garcia (CEFET-PR)

|-
| ||L=FAcia Machado Rino (DC-UFSCar)

|-
| || Mike Dillinger (IL-UFMG)

|-
| ||Raul S. Wazlawick (DI-UFSC)

|-
| ||Rosa Maria Viccari (II-UFRGS)

|-
| || Vera L=FAcia Strube de Lima(II-PUCRS)
|}

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TOPIC 8:

A: KPML Mailing List

From: Elke Teich <elke(at)dude(dot)uni-sb(dot)de>

<center> Announcing the KPML mailing list</center>

KPML (Komet-Penman MultiLingual) is a grammar development environment
for Systemic Functional Grammars and a sentence generator for English,
German,
Dutch and a few other languages. The system was developed at the
Institute
for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) of the
German
National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Darmstadt,
Germany (http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/IPSI/index.html) and is now being
further developed at the Center for Language and Communication
research at the University of Stirling, UK
(http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication).

KPML is based on the Penman system for generation of English sentences
originally developed at the Information Sciences Institute, University
of Southern California.

Added functionalities include

- multilinguality

- facilities for versioning and back-up for large-scale grammar resources

- graphic-based grammar writing tools

- graphic-based grammar exploration tools

- tools for preparing teaching materials

- specialized example and test suite management tools.

KPML has been used in a number of projects and is currently one of the
most popular platforms for developing grammars for generation. Users
of the system currently develop generation grammars for languages as
diverse as English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Finnish, Greek,
Czech, Russian and Bulgarian. More information about KPML can be
found at

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/

including the requirements for installing the system, downloading the
system, documentation etc.

You might also want to have a look at a sample generated document where

the text parts are generated with KPML:

 http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/kometpave-pics-96.html

Other relevant pages:

KPML basic:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/kpml.html

KPML documentation (online):

http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/kpml-1-doc/kpml.html

KPML documentation (downloadable hardcopy):

file://ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de/pub/komet/KPML-1.0/

The Grammar Exploration Tool:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/Grexplorer/grexplorer.html

The generation grammar bank:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/communication/Computational-tools/generation-bank.html

This mailing list offers users of KPML the opportunity of exchanging
information, seeking and giving advice in issues of linguistic
specification and computational implementation, announcing and making
available add-on functionalities and new resources etc. The list is
managed by the department of English Linguistics, Institute of Applied
Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting of the University of the
Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany
(http://www.uni-sb.de/~sl16eset/elke.html).

 Subscribe NOW and keep in touch!

To subscribe send e-mail to

 elke(at)dude(dot)uni-sb(dot)de

by putting 'subscribe MY-E-MAIL-ADDRESS' in the subject field.

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TOPIC 9:

P: Diana McKinnie [Generating reports from dictated X-ray reports]

From: Diana McKinnie <LDDMCKIN(at)ihc(dot)com>

I am a PhD student in the Medical Informatics program at the University of
Utah. My project deals with generating natural language reports from
parsed, dictated X-ray reports. I find the field of natural language
generation fascinating and frustrating. I look forward to talking to others
with the same fascinations and frustrations.

My e-mail address at the University is: d.mckinnie(at)m(dot)cc(dot)utah(dot)edu.

Thanks- Diana McKinnie

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==1997==

===Issue 3===
Date: 07 Dec 1997

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TOPICS:
1. Q: Evaluation of NL dialogue systems?

2. CFP: COLING-ACL 98 -- Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals -- Deadline: 31 Dec 97

3. CFP: Book -- Advances in Scalable Text Summarization Deadline: 30 Dec 97

4. CFP: ETAI -- Electronic Transactions on AI

5. CFP: TAPD'98 -- Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction Deadline: 12 Dec 97

6. CFP: SIGDAT'98 -- Very Large Corpora Deadline: 20 Apr 98

7. CFP: FOIS'98 -- Formal Ontology in Information Systems Deadline: 15 Dec 97

8. CFP: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers -- Coling/ACL'98 Deadline: 10 Mar 98

9. CFP: INLG'98 -- International Workshop on NL Generation Deadline: 28 Jan 98

10.JOB: ITRI, Brighton -- Research opportunities

11.JOB: ELRA/ELDA

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Topic 1: Q: Evaluation of NL dialogue systems?

From: "gas0" <GAS0(at)elvira(dot)ugr(dot)es>

Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado

Electronics and Computer Technology Dept.

University of Granada

18071 Granada, Spain

e-mail: gas0(at)elvira(dot)ugr(dot)es

Fax: +34-58-243230

Dear SIGGEN colleagues:

I am a PhD student and a researcher in the Department of
Electronics and Computer Technology at the University of
Granada. I am working on a natural language dialogue system
that aims to answer product orders and questions of clients
in fast-food restaurants. It may be considered a rule-based
expert system whose behaviour is decided from a recorded
dialogue corpus obtained at a real restaurant. The system is
quite developed at the moment, though it needs some improvement
to enhance the level of understanding and naturalness.

I would like to get information about the available evaluation
methods of such a system, as well as information about the
evaluation of natural language dialogue systems in general (used
techniques, bibliography, web sites, etc.).

In order to provide more information, I enclose a short abstract
about the system I am working on.

--- Abstract ----

The system goal is to simulate the restaurant-clerk behaviour. It
must be able to provide information and ask client questions
similarly to how a human clerk does. In addition we
want it to process spontaneous voiced-speech, which at a
linguistic level means to consider phenomena such as unnecessary
word repetition, grammatical order change, anaphora, discordances,
context information, grammatical mistakes, etc. We also expect a
learning ability for the system to allow new information (foods,
drinks, ingredients, etc.) acquisition from client interaction.

The basis for the system development is as follows:

- Unnecessary information in client utterance: Usually,
not all words in a sentence are necessary to obtain its semantic
interpretation, which can be achieved from meaning words only
(keywords). To obtain such interpretation, the system uses
keywords and a keyword lattice analysis. This analysis is carried
out by means of syntactic and semantic rules. From dialogue corpus
we found out that clients usually use a small number of words in
their utterances (communication client-clerk tends to be
telegram-like), therefore a system dictionary can be size-reduced.

- Use of a small number of patterns: Clients tend to communicate
using a small number of patterns to order products, ask questions,
or modify previous product orders. Using these patterns the system
can extract most semantic meanings from clients' utterances. In case
the meaning cannot be obtained, clients are asked to help the system
understanding process or to repeat the utterance input differently.

The system is a compound of several modules: Input Interface, Control
Module, Memory Module, Restaurant-product Knowledge Base, Lexicon, and
Output Interface.

At the moment the system takes about 30.000 C++ code lines. Its inputs
and outputs are natural language text sentences.

Its Input interface is well developed but still needs to define some
syntactic and semantic rules, since now only product orders and
questions are carried out.

We are about to start the Modification Module set up. This module
will be activated when the desire of modification of previous orders
is detected in client input.

Also, the Learning Module needs to be started. This module will be
activated when "possible" unknown foods, ingredients, drinks, etc.
are detected in client input. These new products will be learnt, so
they could be recognized the next time they appear in client
sentences.

The Natural Language Generator needs improvement to enhance the
expression power, though at the moment, the system can build
both syntactically and semantically right sentences, in a very
natural fashion, by using pronouns and context information available
at the moment of the natural language generation.

The system uses a graphic interface that now is useful but simple. In
future we would like to improve it by including product-pictures and
graphics of the "artificial" restaurant-clerk face, in order to
improve a friendly communication.

We think the integration of the system in a voice-controlled
response system represents its best application. To
do so, it would need a speech-to-text interface that
provides a text-word sequence from client voice. A text-to-speech
interface should transform the system output into synthesized voice.
Theoretically the whole system could be part of an
automatic front-end dialogue system for clients in restaurants,
or for those at home who use telephone for ordering.

--- End of Abstract ---

I do not know if this short abstract would be enough for you to
get an idea of the system, so in case you need any further
information, or in case you have any comment or remark, please
let me know.

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado

Electronics and Computer Technology Dept.

University of Granada

18071 Granada

Spain.

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Topic 2: CFP: COLING-ACL 98 -- Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals

From: pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk (Pete Whitelock)

<center>COLING-ACL '98</center>

<center>WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS</center>

<center> CALL FOR PROPOSALS</center>

<center>University of Montreal</center>

<center> Montreal</center>

<center> Quebec </center>

<center> Canada</center>

The Programme Commitee would like to receive proposals for tutorials
and workshops to be held in conjunction with the Joint COLING-ACL
Conference.

TUTORIALS

Tutorials will be held on Sunday 9th August, the day preceeding the
conference proper. Tutorials may address any topic of current or
possible future relevance to the field. The duration of each tutorial
should be approximately 3 hours. Those interested in presenting a
tutorial should send a 300-500 word proposal to Pete Whitelock,
pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk, describing the relevance of the subject matter to
the conference participants, an outline of the tutorial's content, and
a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of August,
immediately following the conference proper. Workshops will normally
be one day in length, but may extend to a second day if
required. Those interested in organising a workshop should send a
brief proposal to Pete Whitelock, pete(at)sharp(dot)co(dot)uk, describing the
topic of the workshop and its relevance to Coling, the approximate
number of participants expected and the likely duration of the
workshop, and a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience.

It is hoped that it will be possible to accomodate all proposals for
tutorials and workshops, but the room space available will place an
upper limit on the number. Since proposals will be accepted primarily
on a first-come first-served basis, proposers are encouraged to submit
as early as possible. Early submission is particularly important if
workshop presentations are to be refereed. In any event, no proposals
will be accepted after the final deadline of Dec 31st.

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Topic 3: CFP: Book -- Advances in Scalable Text Summarization

From: Inderjeet Mani <mani(at)azrael(dot)mitre(dot)org>

<center> CALL FOR PAPERS (BOOK)</center>

<center>ADVANCES IN SCALABLE TEXT SUMMARIZATION</center>

<center>Inderjeet Mani and Mark Maybury, editors</center>

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line information in recent
years, demand for text summarization technology appears to be
growing. Commercial companies are starting to offer text summarization
capabilities, often bundled with information retrieval tools. Further,
there is considerable interest in mining information from large
databases, many of which have text content. These recent developments
offer opportunities as well as substantial challenges for research in
text summarization. In general, such developments have created a
practical need for summarization systems which scale up when applied
to large volumes of unrestricted text.

In response to this challenge, a number of new approaches have
emerged. Traditionally, shallower techniques have been leveraged to
achieve the desired levels of scalability and domain-independence, but
recent advances in robust information extraction as well as approaches
integrating statistical and symbolic techniques have opened up
possibilities for more powerful yet scalable summarization techniques.

With the renewed interest in text summarization, another challenge is
to develop rigorous criteria to help evaluate different methodologies,
in order to better advise investors and the interested public on
technology choices. This state-of-the-art collection will bring
together research aimed at advancing the scientific frontiers of text
summarization to meet these new practical challenges and
opportunities. **The principal aim of this book is to collect some
of the key results to date and to identify promising research issues
for the benefit of students, corporate researchers, and research
program managers interested in learning more about this field.**

Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of text
summarization, including, but not limited to:

TECHNIQUES

 * Statistical, linguistic, and knowledge-based techniques in intelligent
summarization

 * Text summary generation 

 * Capturing cohesion and coherence relations in text

 * Exploiting advances in information extraction in summarization

 * Exploiting domain knowledge in scalable text summarization

 * Combining scalability with abstraction in summarization

 * Tailoring summaries to particular users, tasks, and contexts

NEW PROBLEMS

 * Multilingual summarization

 * Multimodal summarization 

 * Multi-document/multi-source summarization 

FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES in THEORY AND PRACTICE

 * Classification of summarization systems

 * Theoretical foundations, including cognitive models

 * Evaluation methods and metrics

 * Summarization in operational contexts: requirements, architectures,
lessons learned

Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance,
and significance of results. The papers will be reviewed by a
committee of experts. In addition, authors will be asked to relate the
content of their papers to other related papers in the book. In
addition to new contributions, the book will also include reprints of
classic papers in the field.

Submission Information

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: December 30, 1997

PAPERS REVIEWED BY: March 15, 1997

DRAFT TO PUBLISHERS: July 15, 1997

Interested authors should submit to the address below three copies of
a previously unpublished paper no more than 20 pages long,
single-spaced, addressing a specific text summarization issue or
reporting novel methods and results. Authors should indicate whether
the paper is being submitted elsewhere. Please include your name and
address on the first page.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Inderjeet Mani

The MITRE Corporation, W640

11493 Sunset Hills Road

Reston, Virginia 22090, USA

Internet: imani(at)mitre(dot)org

Phone: (703) 883-6149

Fax: (703) 883-1379

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Topic 4: CFP: ETAI -- Electronic Transactions on AI

From: Elisabeth Andre <Elisabeth.Andre(at)dfki(dot)de>

<center> *** Call for Papers for the First Issues of the ***</center>
<center> ETAI - ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE</center>
<center> Organized and published under the auspices of the</center>
<center> European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)</center>
<center> http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai</center>

AREA: Intelligent User Interfaces

SCOPE:

The ETAI is organized into several specialized areas. The area of
Intelligent User Interfaces focuses on design principles,
methodologies and tools that make man-machine communication easier and
more effective. For ETAI, papers are invited from the whole spectrum
of Intelligent User Interfaces research. Topics of interest include,
but are not restricted to:

- knowledge-based tools and environments for user interface design and development

- adaptive and customizable user interfaces

- user modeling

- intelligent interface agents and agent-based interaction

- knowledge-based presentation of information

- intelligent interfaces to the internet, for tasks such as design, presentation, access and navigation

- natural-language and multimodal interfaces

- intelligent front-ends to multimedia, hypermedia and virtual environments

- architectures for intelligent user interfaces

- evaluation and analysis of intelligent user interfaces applications, such as tutoring and advisory systems, computer-supported collaborative work, computer-aided design, decision-support systems, information kiosks

CONTRIBUTIONS:

The ETAI welcomes contributions for the first issues of the area:
Intelligent User Interfaces. Beside high-quality papers, we seek
conference and workshop reports, book reviews and links to software
that is available and can be run over the net. Submission guidelines
can be found under http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/submission.html
For more details contact the area editor (address see below).

AREA EDITOR: Elisabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany

AREA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE (as of September 1997):

Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University, Denmark

Peter Brusilovsky, CMU, USA

Lynda Hardmann, CWI, NL

James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA

Joe Marks, MERL, USA

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK

Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH, Greece

Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy

Annika Waern, SICS, Sweden

WHAT IS THE ETAI?

The ETAI represents a novel approach to electronic publishing. We do
not simply inherit the patterns from the older technology, but instead
we have rethought the structure of scientific communication in order
to make the best possible use of international computer networks as
well as electronic document and database technologies.

Articles submitted to the ETAI are reviewed in a 2-phase process.
After submission, an article is open to public online discussion in
the area's News Journal. After the discussion period of three months,
and after the authors have had a chance to revise it, the article is
reviewed for acceptance by the ETAI, using confidential peer review
and journal level quality criteria. This second phase is expected to
be rather short because of the preceding discussion and possible
revision. During the entire reviewing process, the article is already
published in a "First Publication Archive", which compares to
publication as a departmental tech report.

Compared to mailgroups, the News Journals offer a more persistent and
reputable forum of discussion. Discussion contributions are preserved
in such a way that they are accessible and referencable for the
future. In other words, they also are to be considered as "published".

One additional type of contributions in News Journals is for links to
software that is available and can be run over the net. This is
particularly valuable for software which can be run directly from a
web page.

The creation of bibliographies, finally, is a traditional activity in
research, but it is impractical in paper-based media since by their
very nature, bibliographies ought to be updated as new articles
arrive. The on-line maintenance of specialized bibliographies within
each of its topic areas is a natural function in the ETAI.

For more details see: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/

ADDRESS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Elisabeth Andre

DFKI GmbH

Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3

D-66123 Saarbruecken

Germany

Phone: +49 681 302 5267

Fax: +49 681 302 5341

email: andre(at)dfki(dot)de

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Topic 5: CFP: TAPD'98 -- Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction

From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr>

<center> TAPD'98</center>

<center> 1st Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'</center>

<center> April 2-3, 1998</center>

<center> Paris, France</center>

<center> Organized by INRIA</center>

<center> in collaboration with CEDRIC of CNAM</center>

<center> WEB page: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html</center>

MOTIVATIONS

Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly
redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language
Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract
Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity,
non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed
whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve
computation sharing and loop detection. In addition, tabulation also
offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies
and to represent ambiguity by shared structures (Shared Proof or Parse
Forest).

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these
different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation
and tabular systems to potential users in different application
areas. One major area of application is Natural Language Processing,
where tabulation has been known for a long time (CKY, Earley, chart
parsing). However, sophisticated tabulation techniques are required
for the more and more complex grammatical formalisms now used in NLP
(unification, constraints, structural complexity). Contributions in
other areas, such as picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete
deduction techniques, are also encouraged.

TOPICS (not exclusive)

-- Tabulation Techniques: 

Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms

-- Applications:

Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases,Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving

 -- Static Analysis:

Improving tabular evaluation

-- Parsing or resolution strategies.

-- Efficiency issues:

 Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing),

Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption).

-- Shared structures (parse or proof forest):

Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 2-day event that provides a
forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as
well as group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before December
12, 1997 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical
contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time
constraints, submissions will be handled exclusively electronically
(LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submissions should include
the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

Submissions must be sent to Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr

The collection of selected papers will be available at the
workshop. After the workshop, authors are invited to submit a full
paper for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logic
Programming oriented towards Natural Language Processing. The authors
should note that this second submission will be treated according to
the standards of the Journal of Logic Programming.

SCHEDULE:
{|
|-
| Submission of contributions: || 12 December 1997
|-
| Notification of acceptance: ||26 January 1998
|-
| Final versions due: ||20 February 1998
|}

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

{|
|-
| Bernard Lang (chairman) ||-- INRIA, France
|-
|Francois Bry || -- University of Munich, Germany
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie || -- INRIA, France
|-
| Marc Dymetman || -- Xerox, France
|-
| Mark Johnson || -- Brown University, USA
|-
| Baudouin Le Charlier || -- University of Namur, Belgium
|-
| Mark Jan Nederhof || -- University of Groningen, NL
|-
|David Rosenblueth || -- University of Mexico, Mexico
|-
|Manuel Vilares || -- University of La Coruna, Spain
|-
|David S. Warren || -- University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
|}

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

{|
|-
| Francois Barthelemy ||-- CNAM, Paris, France
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie ||-- INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
|-
| Bernard Lang || -- INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
|-
| Manuel Vilares || -- University of La Coruna, Spain
|}

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

{|
|-
| Claudie Thenault ||--INRIA, Relations Exterieures, France
|}

ORGANIZATION: Up-to-date information will be available at

<center> http://pauillac.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html</center>

For request, please contact:

{|
|-
| Eric de la Clergerie||
|-
| INRIA Rocquencourt ||Tel: +33 1 39 63 54 10
|-
|Domaine de Voluceau - BP 105 ||Fax: +33 1 39 63 53 30
|-
|78153 Le Chesnay Cedex || E-mail: Eric.Clergerie(at)inria(dot)fr
|}

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Topic 6: CFP: SIGDAT'98 -- Very Large Corpora

From: Eugene Charniak <ec(at)cs(dot)brown(dot)edu>

<center>SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA</center>

<center> Preliminary Call for Papers</center>

WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)

WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in
corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest
include (but are not limited to):

 - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis

- part of speech tagging

 - term and name identification

- word sense disambiguation

- morphological analysis

 - anaphora resolution

- event categorization

- discourse structure identification

- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology

 - language modelling

- lexicography

- machine translation

 - spelling and grammar correction

PROGRAM CHAIR:

{|
| Eugene Charniak ||Brown University
|}

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit
six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene
Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. Authors
should consult the primary call for papers in February for updated
specifications.

SCHEDULE:

{|
| Submission Deadline: ||April 20, 1998
|-
| Notification Date: || June 1, 1998
|-
| Camera ready copy due: ||June 22, 1998

|}

CONTACT:

Eugene Charniak

e-mail ec(at)cs(dot)brown(dot)edu

Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998

Department of Computer Science

Brown University

Providence RI 02912-1910

Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998

Department of Computer Science

Johns Hopkins University

NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21218-2694

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Topic 7: CFP: FOIS'98 -- Formal Ontology in Information Systems

From: Alessandro Artale <artale(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it>

<center> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON</center>

<center>FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS</center>

<center> FOIS'98</center>

<center> In conjunction with</center>

<center> the 6th International Conference on Principles of</center>

<center> Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'98 </center>

<center>TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998</center>

<center> Under the auspices of the Project</center>

<center> ONTOINT </center>

<center>(Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration)</center>

<center>funded by the Italian National Research Council </center>

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer
science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse
as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing,
knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic
information science, and intelligent information access. Various workshops
addressing the engineering aspects of ontology have been held in the past
few years. However, ontology - by its very nature - ought to be a unifying
discipline. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area
of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for
this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific
principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and
applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first
step in this direction.

As the heterogeneity of the program committee indicates, the conference
will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants
include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and
philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical
issues, methodological proposals as well as papers addressing concrete
applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome.

TOPICS

Examples of problem areas that may be addressed at the conference include:

THEORETICAL ISSUES

* Foundations:

parthood, constitution, identity, integrity, dependence, causality

* Kinds of entity:

particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents,

abstracta vs. concreta, attributes, relations, qualities,

quantities, tropes or moments, states, situations, environments

* Matter, space, time, motion, change

 * Natural kinds, organisms, artifacts

* The ontology of social reality:

legal and administrative entities, artistic expressions

* The ontology of information and information processing:

representations, signs, software products, virtual reality, cyberspace

 * Top-level ontological taxonomies:

new proposals or critical analyses of existing ones

* Cognitive foundations of ontological distinctions

* Kinds of ontology:

top-level ontologies, domain ontologies, task ontologies,application ontologies

* Ontological commitment

APPLICATION AREAS

 * Knowledge organization, integration and standardization

 * Intelligent information access

 * Information systems design

 * Knowledge engineering

 * Conceptual modelling

 * Qualitative modelling

 * Lexical semantics

 * Terminology integration

 * Product knowledge integration

 * Geographic information systems

 * Legal information systems

TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES

 * Ontological and linguistic instruments for conceptual analysis

 * Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers will be selected on the basis of a rigorous review of full paper
contributions. Authors should submit 5 copies to the Conference Chair by
December 19, 1997. Papers received after the deadline or not conforming to
the submission format will be rejected without review.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantially different from papers
under review. Papers that have been or will be presented at small
workshops/symposia whose proceedings are available only to attendees may be
submitted.

Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s),
affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating
the topic areas listed above that best describe the
contribution. Submissions must be at most 16 pages, excluding the title page
and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of
75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt)
using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Papers should be sent in 5 copies. Fax or
electronic submissions will not be accepted.

Those proposing to submit papers must complete the form at the WWW address
<http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/> by Monday December 15, 1997. If
intending authors do not have WWW access, then an e-mail message must be
sent to <fois98(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it> by the same date, giving details of any
proposed submission in the following format:

Title: <Title of paper>

Author: <Last name, initials>

Author: <Insert as many more author lines as necessary>

...

CorrespondingAuthor: <name of corresponding author>

CorrespondingEmail: <email of corresponding author>

CorrespondingAddress: <address of corresponding author>

Keywords: <insert list of keywords, preferably chosen from above list>

Abstract: <insert short abstract, max 200 words>

EndAbstract: 

Should intending authors not have e-mail access, the information above
should be sent by letter to arrive to the Conference Chair by Monday
December 15, 1997.

The proceedings will be published in the IOS-Press (Amsterdam) bookseries
'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications' and will be
available at the conference. Final camera-ready copies of the accepted
papers will be due by March 9, 1998. Authors will be responsible for
preparing the final camera-ready in conformity with the formatting
requirements laid down by the publisher (see instructions at the FOIS'98 web
page http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/submissions.html). Final papers
will be allowed at most fourteen (14) pages in the conference proceedings
style (corresponding to approximately 20 article-style LaTex pages).

SCHEDULE

{|
|-
|Monday, December ||15, 1997 Electronic abstracts due
|-
|Friday, December ||19, 1997 Papers due
|-
|Friday, February || 6, 1998 Results sent to authors
|-
|Monday, March || 9, 1998 Final papers due
|-
|Saturday-Monday, June || 6-8, 1998 FOIS'98
|}

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

{|
|-
|CONFERENCE CHAIR || ORGANIZATION CHAIR
|-
|Nicola Guarino || Alessandro Artale
|-
|National Research Council || ITC-IRST
|-
|LADSEB-CNR || Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy
|-
|Corso Stati Uniti, 4 || e-mail: artale(at)irst(dot)itc(dot)it
|-
|I-35127 Padova, Italy||
|-
|e-mail: guarino(at)ladseb(dot)pd(dot)cnr(dot)it||
|}

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

{|
|Alessandro Artale - Enrico Franconi || (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy)
|-
|Nicola Guarino - Claudio Masolo || (LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy)
|-
|Luca Pazzi - Sonia Bergamaschi || (Univ. of Modena, Italy)
|-
|Geri Steve - Aldo Gangemi || (ITBM-CNR, Roma, Italy)
|-
|Cristiano Castelfranchi - Rino Falcone || (IP-CNR, Roma, Italy)
|}

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Topic 8: CFP: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers -- Coling/ACL'98

From: Eduard Hovy <hovy(at)ISI(dot)EDU>

<center> Coling/ACL 98 workshop</center>

<center> Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers</center>

<center> August 15, 1998</center>

<center> Universite de Montreal</center>

<center> Montreal/Canada</center>

The notion of discourse relation has received many interpretations, some
of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a
consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between
adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by
linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts,
theme inversions, and other markers.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse
relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and
different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is
the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic
realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of
the following questions:

* What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers

(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?

* What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with

potential realizations?

* Are there discourse relations that are *always* lexically signalled?

Are there any that are *never* lexically signalled?

* What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? 

* In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all?

* In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation?

* In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)?

* In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues?

* In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?

* What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production?

* What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What 
features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily?

* Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language?

* How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues?

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

Manfred Stede (Technical University, Berlin)

Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)

Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)

This call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can
be found at http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998

Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date)

Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998

Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998

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Topic 9: CFP: INLG'98 -- International Workshop on NL Generation

From: Graeme Hirst <gh(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>

<center> =============================</center>
<center> 9th International Workshop on </center>

<center> NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION</center>

<center> 5-7 August 1998</center>

<center>Prince of Wales Hotel </center>

<center> Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada</center>

<center> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

(For more information, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 )

The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held
in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in
Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998.

The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop
attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and
research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related
fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning,
and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop,
which traditionally has had a very diverse international
representation.

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's
major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from
Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with
many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake
bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its
main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops,
cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one
of the top North American repertory theatre companies.

The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference
of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the
workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL
directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal
(approximately 4 hours).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should
emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should
also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible.

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this
fact on the first page.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title,
references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with
margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.

System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an
outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that
describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots.
Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller
than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not
satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be
rejected without review.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file.
This file should be sent to hovy(at)isi(dot)edu, with the subject field "INLG
submission".

SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY

Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or
demonstration outline should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy, INLG-98

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

DEADLINES

Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that
they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic
submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI.

Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers
will be returned unreviewed.

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of
acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers
prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer,
must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release
statement.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University
of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General workshop questions:

Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco(at)logos(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca, phone +1 519 888 4443

General paper-submission questions:

Eduard Hovy, hovy(at)isi(dot)edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair)

Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland

Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto

Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto

Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal

Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh

Marie Meteer, BBN

Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney

Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen

Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney

Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park

For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website:

http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

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Topic 10: JOB: ITRI, Brighton -- Research opportunities

From: Donia Scott <donia.scott(at)itri(dot)bton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

<http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/summer97.html>

ITRI, University of Brighton

The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the University
of Brighton, is a major centre for research in Computational Linguistics
and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are natural
language generation, lexicons, corpora and human computer interfaces.
Our current research programme addresses the following theoretical
issues: anaphora, architectures for natural language generation,
automated interface design, constraint based reasoning, controlled
languages, corpora, diagrammatic reasoning, discourse, document design,
integrating text and graphics, lexical knowledge bases, lexical
representation, multilinguality, natural language interfaces, text
generation, underspecification, word sense disambiguation.

The Institute is comprised of around twenty staff and students: research
professors, readers, research fellows, research assistants, postgraduate
students and technical and administrative staff. We also regularly host
visiting researchers from other universities worldwide.

The Institute is housed in a self-contained brand new office suite with
excellent computing and network facilities and full administrative
support. As a dedicated research department, we place great emphasis on
career management and development, and participation in the wider
research community.

We are currently recruiting to fill up to six fixed-term research posts
over the next few months, ranging from research officers to principal
research fellows for up to three or five years in duration. A number of
PhD studentships may also be available.

If you are interested in working with us, we would be interested in
hearing from you. Please address all enquiries, enclosing a CV if
possible, to the address below. Suitable potential candidates will be
sent further information. Meanwhile, more detailed information regarding
the Institute is available on our web site.

Ms Vivienne Wicks, Research Administrator, Information Technology
Research Institute, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2
4GJ, United Kingdom.

{|
|Tel: +44 1273 642900 || Email: admin(at)itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk
|-
|Fax: +44 1273 642908 ||URL: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/
|}

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Topic 11: JOB: ELRA/ELDA

From: elra-elda(at)calva(dot)net (Malin Nilsson)

===============================================
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT at ELRA/ELDA in Paris
===============================================

ELRA, the European Language Resources Association, has an immediate vacancy
for a Technical assistant for ELDA, its Paris-based distribution agency.
ELRA, a non-profit association registered in Luxembourg, was established in
1995 and receives financial support from the European Commission and
national governments to promote the development and exploitation of Language
Resources - monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech
databases and terminology - in Europe. Enjoying strong backing from the
language engineering industry, ELRA's operations are conducted by the CEO
and his team at ELDA.

The role of the new technical assistant will be to contribute to the work of
a small support team in the development of the infrastructure for the
collection, validation, and licensing of LR and in the interactions with the
relevant players (i.e. producers, owners and users of LR who may be in the
industrial, commercial or academic world; and governmental and
non-governmental agencies), with a particular focus on textual and
terminological resources.

This position yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and
motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in
establishing/building the European Union Language Engineering field. Terms
and conditions of employment are subject to negotiation, but will be
commensurated with the responsibilities of the post and will include
performance-based incentives. ELRA will pay relocation expenses for the
selected candidate. This is initially a one-year appointment with a strong
possibility of a further two years or permanent employment.

Qualifications:

- Excellent track record in Language Engineering and related fields.

- Technical experience in design and development of Language Engineering

solutions (preference for candidats with experience in the fields of written

text and/or terminology).

- Experience in collecting, validating, and marketing language resources,

software or other forms of intellectual property. =09

- Experience in packaging language resources for distribution using=

CD-ROM,

ftp facilities, etc.. will be a plus.

- Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country.

- Ability to work in at least two European languages including English.

Applicants should send a cover letter addressing the points listed above,
together with a current Curriculum Vitae, to:
ELRA Distribution Agency (ELDA), Dr. Khalid Choukri, 87, Avenue d'Italie
F-75013 Paris, France
Fax +33 1 45 86 44 88; e-mail: elra(at)calvanet(dot)calvacom(dot)fr
For more information on ELRA, see:http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
(English) or /ELRA/fr/home.html (French)
Initial applications by e-mail will be accepted with follow-up by post/fax.

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===Issue 2===

<center> =============================</center>

<center>9th International Workshop on </center>

<center> NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION</center>

<center> 5-7 August 1998</center>

<center>Prince of Wales Hotel </center>

<center>Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada</center>

<center>CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

(For more information, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 )

The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held
in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in
Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998.

The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop
attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and
research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related
fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning,
and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop,
which traditionally has had a very diverse international
representation.

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's
major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from
Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with
many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake
bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its
main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops,
cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one
of the top North American repertory theatre companies.

The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference
of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the
workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL
directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal
(approximately 4 hours).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should
emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should
also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible.

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this
fact on the first page.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title,
references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with
margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.

System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an
outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that
describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots.
Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller
than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not
satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be
rejected without review.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file.
This file should be sent to hovy@isi.edu, with the subject field "INLG
submission".

SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY

Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or
demonstration outline should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy, INLG-98

Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

U.S.A.

DEADLINES

Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that
they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic
submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI.

Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers
will be returned unreviewed.

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of
acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers
prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer,
must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release
statement.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University
of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General workshop questions:

Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443

General paper-submission questions:

Eduard Hovy, hovy@isi.edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair)

Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland

Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto

Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto

Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal

Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh

Marie Meteer, BBN

Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney

Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen

Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney

Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park

For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website:

http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98

===Issue 1===

Date: 2 Jan 1997
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TOPICS:

1. NEW! SIGGEN WEB SITE <http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/siggen>

2. Contribute: workshop papers, thesis, siggen directory.

3. ELRA News

4. CFP: RIAO'97 Computer Assisted Information Searching On Internet

25 June 97, Montreal - Deadline March 3, 1997

<mailto:Abdellatif.Saoudi(at)irin(dot)univ-nantes(dot)fr> 

5. NLP Research Positions in Sydney, Australia <rdale(at)mpce(dot)mq(dot)edu(dot)au>

6. CFP: EMNLP-2 (SIGDAT) - Deadline: March 3, 1997

August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97) - Brown University

7. CFP: EUROSPEECH 97 - Deadline: 1 February 1997

Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997

8. CFP: BISFAI'97 - Deadline: February 2nd 1997

June 16-18, 1997, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Topic 1:

From: siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il (Michael Elhadad)

Subject: SIGGEN Web site

Happy new year! SIGGEN is finally moving to the era of the World Wide Web.

The SIGGEN Web site is:

<http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/siggen>

Please check it and contribute material to add there. Send me all your

comments. I have been thinking about adding a members directory. I believe

the best way is if you want to have your name and http address added there with

a short description of your interests, please mail them to me and I will

maintain the directory (until someone contributes a program to do these things

automatically).

From now on, I will add conference and workshop announcements on the Web site

and only send pointers in the newsletter (which will become much shorter).

With the new year, feel free again to contribute to this newsletter: send

questions, update on your research, paper announcements, reaction on published

papers, reviews etc.

The newsletter is sent approximately every two months. If you want to remove

your name from the list, please send email to siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il.

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Topic 2:

From: siggen(at)cs(dot)bgu(dot)ac(dot)il (Michael Elhadad)

Subject: Previous workshop papers

Many people have observed that many Generation papers have appeared in one of

the previous Workshops on Generation. These papers are difficult to find. We

should make every effort to make them more available. This is a call to all

authors of papers previously published in one of the Generation Workshops to

send to SIGGEN a pointer to the file(s) of the paper.

The SIGGEN Web site also contains pointers to generation resources: papers,

thesis, software. Contribute!

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Topic 3:

From: elra(at)calvanet(dot)calvacom(dot)fr (Khalid Choukri)

Subject: INFORMATION FROM ELRA (European Language Resources Association)

<center>INFORMATION FROM THE </center>

<center>European Language Resources Association </center>

<center> ELRA News </center>

ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in

February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the

creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition

to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested

parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as

the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with

similar bodies in other parts of the world. Funded in the medium term by

membership fees, grants from the European Commission and national governments,

together with projects income, the Association will be financially

self-supporting in the long run. A 12-member Board is in charge of the strategy

and objectives to be adopted by the Association.

Relevant LR are Spoken Databases, Lexica, Grammars, Written Corpora and

Terminological Data. These are required for the development of speech and text

processing systems for a large number of applications in various information

technology areas.

ELRA licences LR for R&D, as soon as these are made available. According to the

agreements made between ELRA and its providers, resources can be either

reserved for research purposes or used for the development of products and

services. Licence agreements, drawn with the support of lawyers, are used for

negotiations. Such contracts are available at ELRA office. Lexica, Corpora

(spoken and written), Grammars and Tools are described in easy-to-understand

presentation forms. All these documents can be found on the ELRA Web site.

<center> ELRA Newsletters</center>

A Newsletter is released by ELRA every Quarter. The next three issues will

primarily and alternatively be devoted to each of the 3 Colleges of the

Association : spoken, written and terminological resources. The October

Newletter (vol.1 n.3) is already available at ELRA office. It is entirely

dedicated to Terminology. The next two issues will be dedicated to written and

spoken resources.

<center> The ELRA Web site</center>

The ELRA Web site is now available in English and French. The URL addresses
are:
English version: <http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html>

French version : <http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html>

<center>ELRA Language Resources catalogue </center>

A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on

our Web site. For quotation, please refer to this site or directly to ELRA

office. A published version is released twice a year (together with number 1

and 3 of the Newsletter).

Resources appearing in the catalogue are separated according to the three

Colleges : spoken resources, written resources (corpora, lexica and tools) and

terminological resources. The catalogue consists of :

1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone,

continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.).

2) Written resources :

* 9 monolingual and multilingual corpora 

* 12 monolingual lexica 

* Over 30 multilingual lexical 

* A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 

3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains

and several languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian,

Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese).

<center> ELRA Membership</center>

ELRA members are entitled to substantial discounts on public prices of the

resources and other products (such as the Guide for Terminology Agreements and

several commercial reports).

ELRA membership is open to any organization, public or private, with full

membership (including voting privileges) being available to organizations

registered in Europe. Purely for organizational purposes, members will be

assigned to one of the Colleges on the basis of their main area of

interest. The annual membership fee has been set at a modest ECU 1,000 to

encourage broad participation. You may also opt to join more than one College,

in which case you will be required to pay multiple membership fees.

Please ask for a membership form or download it from the ELRA Web site.

For further information :
<center> ELRA/ELDA</center>

<center>87, Avenue d'Italie</center>

<center>FR-75013 PARIS </center>

<center>FRANCE </center>

<center>Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00</center>

<center>Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88</center>

<center>E-mail : elra(at)calva(dot)net</center>

<center>http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</center>

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Topic 4:

From: Abdellatif.Saoudi(at)irin(dot)univ-nantes(dot)fr (Abdellatif Saoudi)

<center>CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

<center>5TH RIAO CONFERENCE</center>

<center> COMPUTER ASSISTED INFORMATION SEARCHING ON INTERNET</center>

<center> 25th-27th June 1997</center>

<center> McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7,Canada,</center>

"RIAO 97" will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO 85 took place in

France, RIAO 88 at MIT (Cambridge MA., U.S.A.), RIAO 91 in Barcelona, Spain,

and RIAO 94 in New York. The Conference is organized by the "CENTRE DE HAUTES

ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE" (CID) Paris.

Facing the growth of document information available throught the Internet way

(Web sites, NewsGroups or emails), it is necessary to offer new technologies,

mechanisms and systems to manage all that information. The huge amount of

information implies rapid indexing and retrieval engines, efficient datamining

and knowledge discovery systems in oder to find relevant or strategic

information. On one hand,linguistic tools are necessary when managing textual

information ; one the other hand specifics problems have to be solved regarding

the management of multimedia information : multimedia information

characterisation, search mechanisms, multimedia interfaces. Tools are also

necessary to deal with the diversity of the information source. Where is the

relevant information stored? Which are the best sources? How can heterogeneous

repositories be queried, ...? Finally, the current ways of diffusing

information such as the Internet lead to security problems that must not be

overlooked.

The purpose of this conference is to confront specialists in media contents

with specialists in Web-based searching.

More specifically, papers are expected to cover one or more of the following

topics :

A - Rapid indexing and retrieval engines, automatic abstracting

B - Evaluation of linguistic tools in information retrieval

C - Information Retrieval from several repositories

- Identification of duplicated documents in different

repositories (different languages, structures or versions),

 - Unification of documents from heterogeneous repositories ;

datawarehousing,

- Interest of the use of datamining and knowledge discovery

strategies when querying large repositories,

- Evaluation of repository for a given search strategy.

D - Technology watch techniques using strategy on the Web ;

content adressable electronic mail, news group, WWW systems.

E - Architecture

- How can large data flows be exploited by information retrieval tools,

- Distributed, multi-agent architectures

F - Image
 - Image content characterisation, human and automatic image description methods,

- Image search strategies

G - Sound
 - Sound content characterisation,

- Automatic identification of sound type: speech, music...,

- Spoken language recognition,

 - Word-spotting.

H - Content-based compression techniques

I - Multimedia interfaces : Iconic, navigational, speech interface

to web search

J - Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime

K - Web-related international conventions and policies

IMPORTANT DATES :

{|
| Closing date for submission:|| 20 January 1997
|-
| Notification of acceptance: || 10 March 1997
|-
| Camera-ready copy: ||10 May 1997
|-
| Conference start-date: ||25 June 1997
|}

Detailed information regarding RIAO-97 can be found on the World Wide

Web Server :

http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97/

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Topic 5:

From: Robert Dale <rdale(at)mpce(dot)mq(dot)edu(dot)au>

Subject: NLP Research Positions in Sydney, Australia

Are you in the northern hemisphere? Chilly, huh? Well: why not carry

out research in language technology in Sydney, Australia ...

The Microsoft Research Institute's Language Technology Group, situated

on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, is currently seeking

to hire two research scientists. The successful candidates will work

on a number of ongoing and new projects in the areas of natural

language processing and language engineering. We are particularly

interested in hiring people to work in the following three areas:

automatic text generation;

intelligent text processing and information extraction; and

connecting language and action.

Generally, we expect research staff to spend approximately 50% of

their time working on group projects, and 50% pursuing other research

avenues of their own devising. We are particularly interested in

candidates with previous experience in one or more of the following

areas:

corpus-based and statistical methods;

message extraction and understanding;

the use of natural language processing techniques in information

retrieval;

the design and development of dialogue systems;

text planning; and

linguistic realisation.

Applicants should have a postgraduate degree in computational

linguistics, computer science or linguistics, and competence in

several areas drawn from the following portfolio:

Computational linguistic theory: a basic understanding of parsing

techniques; a grounding in one or more syntactic theories; a

familiarity with techniques in statistical text processing; an

understanding of issues in discourse processing; an awareness

of the breadth of issues in the field; and

The ability to program (well!) in one or more of: C, C++, or Lisp.

MRI offers excellent computational facilities and the opportunity to

work in an expanding team that carries out leading-edge research in

language technology. MRI is located on the campus of Macquarie

University in North Ryde, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, one of the

world's most beautiful cities.

The positions will become available from January 1997, although actual

start dates are negotiable. The positions are open to those

considering postdoctoral positions as well as more experienced

candidates. Please send your application (including a CV and list of

publications) by email to Robert Dale (Robert.Dale(at)mq(dot)edu(dot)au) as soon

as possible and by January 1st 1997 at latest. Early indications of

interest would be useful if received by December 13th 1996. Informal

enquiries can be sent to the same address.

Find out more about MRI at <http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/ltg/>

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Topic 6:

From: yarowsky(at)blaze(dot)cs(dot)jhu(dot)edu (David Yarowsky)

Subject: Call for Papers - EMNLP-2

The Association for Computational Linguistics and its

Special Interest Group SIGDAT announce the

<center> Second Conference on</center>

<center>Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing</center>

<center>(EMNLP-2) </center>

<center> Preliminary Call For Papers </center>

WHEN: August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97)

WHERE: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general

forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural

language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited

to):

- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis

- part of speech tagging

- term and name identification

- word sense disambiguation

- morphological analysis

- anaphora resolution

- event categorization

- discourse structure identification

- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology

- language modelling

- lexicography

- machine translation

- spelling and grammar correction

SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the

strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as

applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR).

In recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic

linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these

techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc.,

handle the specific problems encountered in practical language

processing tasks like information extraction and information

retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods

have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms

for these tasks or to address problems specific to information

extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution?

How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of

IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system

effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language

understanding?

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

{|
| Claire Cardie || Cornell University (chair)
|-
| Ralph Weischedel ||BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair)
|}

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

{|
| Eugene Charniak ||Brown University

|}

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper

(3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic

submissions should be mailed to "cardie(at)cs(dot)cornell(dot)edu" and must

either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US

letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use

the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript)

figures. The aclsub style file is available at

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via

ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy

submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and

should include six (6) copies of the paper.

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted

for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any

other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be

considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the

submission.

SCHEDULE:

{|
|-
|Submission deadline: || March 3, 1997
|-
|Notification date: ||April 21, 1997
|-
|Camera-ready copy due: ||June 10, 1997
|-
|Conference dates: ||August 1-2, 1997
|}

CONTACTS:

{|
|-
|Claire Cardie || Ralph Weischedel
|-
|Cornell University ||BBN Systems and Technologies
|-
|Department of Computer Science ||70 Fawcett Street
|-
|4142 Upson Hall || Cambridge, MA 02138
|-
|Ithaca, NY 14850 USA || USA
|-
|cardie(at)cs(dot)cornell(dot)edu || weischedel(at)bbn(dot)com
|-
|(607)255-9206 ||(617)873-3496

|}

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Topic 7:
From m.scordilis(at)wcl(dot)ee(dot)upatras(dot)gr Mon Dec 23 17:46:27 1996

Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

<center> European Speech Communication Association</center>

<center> (ESCA)</center>

<center> EUROSPEECH'97</center>

<center> 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE20</center>

<center> ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY</center>

<center> RHODES, GREECE</center>

<center> 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997</center>

<center> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

AIMS

The Fifth biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology,

EUROSPEECH'97, of the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), will be

held on the island of Rhodes, Greece, organized by the University of Patras,

Wire Communications Laboratory. Rhodes is situated in the southern Aegean Sea,

in the Mediterranean and it is famous for its natural beauty, its archeological

treasures and its highly developed tourism. ESCA is the European organization

that promotes research, development and applications in SPEECH COMMUNICATION

AND TECHNOLOGY. Host cities of the previous conferences were Paris (1989),

Genova (1991), Berlin (1993) and Madrid (1995). The upcoming conference will

include the latest developments in this field of major international

importance, presented in oral and poster sessions . Furthermore it will

include several keynote addresses by distinguished scientists. All

presentations and printed material will be in English, which is the official

language of the conference. In addition to the technical program, an exhibition

of products, services and prototypes related to Speech and Language

Communication and Technology will be held during the conference. Prospective

authors are invited to propose papers in any of the listed technical areas.

TECHNICAL AREAS

A. Speech production and perception

B. Phonetics and phonology

C. Prosody

D. Neurophysiology, psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics of speech

E. Auditory modeling

F. Speech analysis and modeling

G. Neural networks for speech and language processing

H. Robust speech processing, signal enhancement and noise reduction

I. Text-to-speech synthesis

J. Speech and audio coding and transmission

K. Speech recognition and understanding

L. Language modeling

M. Spoken dialogue systems design

N. Speaker and language recognition

O. Spoken language resources, assessment, standards and human factors

P. Multimodal speech and language processing20

Q. Technology for speech and language acquisition and learning

R. Applications for speech, language and hearing disorders and aids for

the communication impaired

S. Speech and language engineering for the telecommunications

T. Systems, hardware and architectures for speech processing

U. Applications of speech technology

V. Other related areas or emerging techniques and applications

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of original, not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either

by post (four copies must be submitted) or by e-mail in postcript or ascii

format only. They must be received no later than 1 February 1997 together with

the completed EUROSPEECH'97 Abstracts Cover Form given below. Abstracts should

not exceed two A4 pages (including figures and references). All submissions

will be acknowledged. E-mail abstracts will be acknowledged within 24 hours. If

they are not acknowledged, please check the e-mail address and resubmit. All

abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Programme Committee. Submission of

an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted.

ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION ADDRESS:

EUROSPEECH'97

Wire Communications Laboratory

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Patras

26110 Rion, Patras, GREECE

E-mail: Abstracts-EURO97(at)wcl(dot)ee(dot)upatras(dot)gr

SPECIAL SESSIONS

EUROSPEECH'97 will include a Special Session on "Education for Language &

Speech Communication Sciences", which aims to address educational issues of

Phonetics, Spoken Language Engineering, Speech and Language Therapy, Computer

assisted learning (CAL) and the use of internet. Abstracts submitted for this

session must be indicated in the space provided in the Abstracts Cover

Form. For more information please contact:
{|
|Gerrit Bloothooft || 20
|}
Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS)

Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands

Phone: +31.30.2536042

Fax: +31.30.2536000

Email: Gerrit.Bloothooft(at)let(dot)ruu(dot)nl

SCHEDULE

{|
|Submission of abstracts ||To be received by ||1 February 1997
|-
|Notification of acceptance ||To be mailed out by ||1 April 1997
|-
|Submission of photo-ready papers ||To be received by ||20 May 1997
|}

SATELLITE EVENTS

ESCA WORKSHOP ON INTONATION, 18-20 September 1997, at Athens, Greece.

Information contact: Antonis Botinis

Tel: +30 1 7211119

Fax: +30 1 7228981

E-mail: tonesca(at)di(dot)uoa(dot)gr

WWW server: http://www.di.uoa.gr/esca

EU SPEECH PROJECTS DAY, Monday, 22 September 1997, 9:00-13:00,

Convention Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece.

Information contact: Giovanni Battista Varile

European Commission, DG XIII E5 - Language Engineering

Tel: +352 430 132 867 Fax: +352 430 134 999
E-mail: Giovanni.Varile(at)lux(dot)dg13(dot)cec(dot)be

COCOSDA WORKSHOP'97 (The International Coordinating Committee for Speech

Databases and Speech I/O Systems Assessment), Friday, 26 September 1997,

9:00-13:00, Convention Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel.

Information contact: Mark Liberman

University of Pennsylvania

Tel: +1 215 898 0464 Fax: +1 215 573 2175

E-mail: myl(at)unagi(dot)cis(dot)upenn(dot)edu

European Tutorial & Research Workshop on AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING:

Computational & Cognitive Science Approaches, 27-28 September 1997,

Centre, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes (Greece).

Information contact: Christian BENOIT

Institut de la Communication Parlee, UPRESA CNRS No 5009, Universite

Stendhal,20

BP 25 X, F38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, FRANCE

Tel: (+33).4.76.82.43.36 Fax: (+33).4.76.82.43.35

E-mail: benoit(at)icp(dot)grenet(dot)fr

Web page: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/

COST WORKSHOP (Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical

research), 26-27 September 1997, Athens, Greece. Information contacts:

COST 249 COST 250

Continuous Speech Recognition Speaker Recognition in Telephony

{|
|Jean Pierre Martens ||Andrea Paoloni
|-
|Tel: +32 91 264 3395 ||Tel: +39 6 5480 3351
|-
|Fax: +32 91 264 3594 ||Fax: +39 6 5480 4405
|-
|E-mail: martens(at)elis(dot)rug(dot)ac(dot)be ||E-mail: pao(at)fub(dot)it
|}

WEB-SITE

The Call for Papers, Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors, all necessary

forms, and continuously updated information about the Conference, as

well as about Greece and Rhodes, can be found at our web site at:

<http://www.cti.gr/~ee-www/>

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Topic 8:

From: Leo Joskowicz <josko(at)cs(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il>

Subject: BISFAI'97

<center> ****** Call for Papers ****** </center>

<center> BISFAI '97 </center>

<center>The Fifth Bar-Ilan Symposium on </center>

<center>Foundations of Artificial Intelligence </center>

<center> June 16-18, 1997 </center>

<center> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel </center>

<center> in cooperation with </center>

<center> Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence </center>

<center> Israeli Society for Theoretical Computer Science </center>

<center> Gelbart Institute for Mathematical Sciences </center>

<center> The Association for Mathematics of Language </center>

<center> The Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science </center>

The focus of BISFAI '97 will be on Intelligent Agents. The Symposium will,

however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers

in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning,

automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, natural

language processing, etc.

The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial

intelligence and mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or

software system that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its

environment and other agents. An agent can also be pro-active in taking the

initiative in goal-directed behaviour.

We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in

particular in the area of Intelligent Agents. Agents have a clear and

growing importance, both practical and theoretical. Because of their

commercial relevance, we encourage practitioners from industry to submit

papers dealing with various practical aspects.

Distinguished Invited Speakers (tentative):

{|
|C. Boutilier ||(U. of British Columbia)
|-
|V. Lesser ||(U. of Massachusetts)
|-
|J. Rosenschein ||(Hebrew U.)
|-
|G. Shafer ||(Rutgers U.)
|-
|Y. Shoham || (Stanford U.)
|-
|P. Struss ||(Technical University of Munich)
|-
|W. Wahlster || (DFKI GmbH)
|}

THE 1997 ISRAELI FEDERATED COMPUTING CONFERENCE: The Symposium will be part

of the new Israeli Federated Computing Conference (IFCC). For contact

points on this conference, see below). The IFCC will also include the

Eighth Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software

Engineering (CBSE), which will take place on June 18-19, 1997, and the

Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS'97),

which will take place on June 17-19, 1997.

Paper Submission: Submit three hard copies of an extended abstract (4-10

pages), or full paper, by February 2nd 1997, to

Leo Joskowicz

Institute of Computer Science

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

E-mail: josko(at)cs(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20th March 1997. A final version

of the accepted will appear in the conference preprints, which will be

distributed to participants at the symposium. Selected refereed full

length papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of

Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the

Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the

Symposium.

Information on registration, accommodations, etc., will appear in future

announcements, or contact: bisfai(at)cs(dot)biu(dot)ac(dot)il.

The web page site is:

<http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html>

{|
| Symposium Chair
|-
|S. Kraus ||(Bar-Ilan U.)
|-
| Program Co-Chairs
|-
|D. Lehmann || (Hebrew U.)
|-
|L. Joskowicz ||(Hebrew U.)
|}

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==1996==
===Issue 7===
Date: 19 Nov 1996

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TOPICS:

1. CFP AI-ED 97 Kobe, Japan. Deadline January 23rd 1997 (partial)

2. Call for Participation KBCS - Bombay, India. Dec 16-18 1996 (partial)

3. Subject: UM97 CFP - Deadline Nov 25 1996 (full)
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Topic 1:

From: miz(at)ei(dot)sanken(dot)osaka-u(dot)ac(dot)jp (Riichiro MIZOGUCHI)

Subject: CFP AI-ED 97 Kobe, Japan. Deadline January 23rd 1997

NOTE: Full call for paper on the Web.

CALL FOR PAPERS

A I - E D 9 7

8TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION

--- Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems ---

19th - 22nd August, 1997

Kobe International Conference Center, JAPAN

URL: http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/aied97/cfp.html

Co-Sponsored by:

Artificial Intelligence in Education Society(AI-ED) and

Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education(JSISE)

In Cooperation with:

Asia-Pacific Chapter of the AACE

Japanese Association for Artificial Intelligence

The 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

(AI-ED 97) is one of a series of international conferences designed to

report the best research in the field of AI in Education and to

provide opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of information and

ideas on research and applications in this field.

The theme for 1997 will be Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems,

and papers that explore the emerging roles of intelligent multimedia

and distributed technologies as well as computer supported

collaboration within that theme will be particularly welcome.

You are invited to submit proposals for research papers, survey papers,

themed papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, and panels.

All proposals will be reviewed for inclusion in the technical program.

Scope

The technical program focuses on research activities linking

Artificial Intelligence theories and techniques with Educational

theory and practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Agents

Architectures

Authoring systems and tutoring shells

Case-based systems

Cognitive development

Cognitive diagnosis

Collaboration and collaborative tools

Computer-assisted language learning

Conceptual change

Educational robotics

Evaluation of instructional systems

Human factors and interface design

Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems

Intelligent tutoring systems

Knowledge and skill acquisition

Knowledge representation for instruction

Learning environments and microworlds

Modelling pedagogical interactions

Motivation

Natural language interfaces

Networked learning and teaching systems

Non-standard and innovative interfaces

Principles and tools for instructional design

Social and cultural aspects of learning

Student modelling

Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition

Theories of teaching

Visual and graphical interfaces

+In addition to RESEARCH papers and posters in the above areas, SURVEY

papers will also be accepted. A survey paper will offer a coherent and

critical summary of achievements and outstanding problems in an area.

+To provoke debate and reflection, THEME papers are also sought under

the specific title "Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems - the next

15 years".

+Exhibits are expected to be an integral part of the AI-ED 97

conference. Companies or institutions offering to exhibit AI-ED

products are invited.

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Topic 2:

From: KBCS Word Processing <kbcs(at)cs(dot)uni-sb(dot)de

<center>IMPORTANT DATES </center>

PAPERS AND POSTERS
{|
| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of abstracts and
|-
|25 November 1996 || author information
|-
|
|-
| Monday, || Receipt of electronic submissions
|-
|2 December 1996 || (optional)
|-
|
|-
|Tuesday, || E-mail notification to authors if the
|-
|3 December 1996 ||requirement of hard-copy submission is waived
|-
|
|-
|Friday, || Receipt of 5 hard copies of each
|-
|6 December 1996 || manuscript (except where the hard-copy requirement was waived on 3 December)
|-
|
|-
|Wednesday, ||Notification of authors by e-mail about
|-
|26 February 1997 ||acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
|
|-
|Monday, || Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
|31 March 1997 || camera-ready papers and summaries of posters
|}

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

{|
|Wednesday, ||Receipt by e-mail of 3-page submissions
|-
|5 February 1997 ||as ASCII text
|-
|
|-
|Wednesday, ||Notification to authors by e-mail about
|-
| 5 March 1997 ||acceptance or rejection of submissions
|-
|
|-
|Monday, ||Receipt of electronic versions of
|-
|31 March 1997 ||camera-ready summaries of presentations
|}

WORKSHOPS

{|
|Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of 3-page workshop
|-
| 20 January 1997 ||proposals as ASCII text
|-
|
|-
| Friday, || Notification by e-mail to workshop
|-
|14 February 1997 || proposers about acceptance or rejection of proposals
|-
|
|Friday, ||Submission, by proposers of accepted
|-
| 21 February 1997 ||workshops, of final calls for participation
|-
|
|-
|Tuesday, ||Availability via the UM97 Web site
|-
| 25 February 1997 || and by e-mail of calls for participation in workshops
|}

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

{|
|Tuesday, || Registration of system demonstrations
|-
|15 April 1997 ||by e-mail
|}

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<center> REASONS TO SUBMIT TO UM97</center>

As a potential author, you may now be wondering whether to

write up your work for UM97 or for a journal or another conference.

Here are some points to bear in mind:

1. A paper that appears in the proceedings will have the status of a

peer-reviewed publication in an internationally distributed

edited volume, which will be published by SpringerWien-New York.

2. As an additional means of ensuring accessibility of the

proceedings, electronic versions of the papers will remain

available on the World Wide Web site of User Modeling, Inc.

for a long time after the conference.

3. Publication in the proceedings volume can be viewed as a

step along the way to the production of a major journal article

about your research. The deadline will encourage you to produce

an initial version; the comments of the members of the international

program committee will help you to improve it; and the feedback

that you get on the final conference paper will help you to

produce a strong full journal manuscript. Journal editors will

not in general be bothered by the fact that a related

conference-length paper has been published, as long as your

journal submission is sufficiently longer, more detailed, and

otherwise expanded relative to the conference paper. (The journal

"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction" is already reserving

space for articles of this sort.)

4. Experience with previous conferences in the UM series has

shown that they provide an exceptionally good environment for

exchanging ideas and making new contacts. There is a sharp

contrast with broader conferences, at which it is often hard to

find someone who is interested in the same topics as you are.

5. Finally, people who have visited Sardinia often claim that

it is one of the most beautiful places the world. There is

nothing wrong with enjoying this beauty for a few days before or

after UM97.

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===Issue 6===
Date: 20 Oct 1996

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TOPICS:

1. E W N L G - 9 7 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
DEADLINE NOV 15 1996!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Post in Computational Linguistics, Stirling <jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk>

3. Practical Human-computer conversation 1997 <yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk>
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Topic 1:

From: he232ho(at)rs1-hrz(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de (Wolfgang Hoeppner)

Subject: EWNLG-97

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CALL FOR PAPERS

E W N L G - 9 7

6th European Workshop on

Natural Language Generation

March 24 - 26, 1997

Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in Natural

Language Generation from such different perspectives as Linguistics,

Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Engineering.

The meeting continues the tradition of a series of workshops held

biannually in Europe (Royaumont, 1987; Edinburgh, 1989; Judenstein,

1991; Pisa, 1993; and Leiden, 1995) but it is open to researchers from

all over the world.

Program Committee:

Stephan Busemann, Saarbruecken

Alison Cawsey, Edinburgh

Robert Dale, Sydney

Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (chair)

Richard Kittredge, Montreal

Stephan Mehl, Duisburg

Koenrad deSmedt, Bergen

Michael Zock, Paris

Papers, posters and demonstrations are invited on original and

substantial work related to the automatic generation of natural

language, including computational linguistics research, artificial

intelligence methods, computer models of human language processing,

empirical research, and the development and evaluation of applied

systems. Contributions on all aspects of natural language generation are

welcome, but the special theme of this workshop will be

'System Architectures for Text Generation'.

This topic comprises a variety of more specific questions, e.g. planning

and/or schemata, pragmatic impact on content selection and form

determination, serial or incremental processing, macro-planning and

micro-planning.

To encourage a workshop atmosphere while allowing a relatively large

number of people to participate, selected papers will be given large time

slots including ample discussion time; other papers will be grouped for

shorter presentations and mutual interaction, and there will be sessions

for posters and computer demonstrations.

Submissions:

Researchers wishing to present a PAPER are requested to submit three

copies of an original unpublished article (10 pages). To allow for

anonymous reviewing the name(s) and complete adress(es) of the

author(s) have to be provided on a separate sheet. We would appreciate

that you additionally send an electronic version of the paper (email or

diskette).

Researchers wishing to present a POSTER are invited to submit three

copies of a reduced version of their poster on 4 normal pages that

together form an A2 size sheet. Use a normal character size. As with

papers any personal information about the author(s) should appear on a

separate sheet.

Researchers wishing to demonstrate a computer PROGRAM are invited to

send three copies of a short description of their program together with

some examples of input and output and hardware requirements. Please

include the name(s) and complete address(es) of the author(s) in the

description.

<center> ********** N E W D E A D L I N E *************</center>

All contributions must be sent BEFORE NOVEMBER 15, 1996 to the

Program Chairman at the following address:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner

Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg

FB3 * Computational Linguistics

D-47048 Duisburg, Germany

Tel.: +49 203 379-2006/2008

email: hoeppner(at)unidui(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de

Internet: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/EWNLG-96.html

Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection by January 17, 1997.

Local arrangements:

Local arrangements are handled by: Wolfgang Hoeppner and Stephan

Mehl (University of Duisburg).

The meeting will be held from the morning of Monday March 24, 1997

through afternoon on Wednesday 26, in 'Die Wolfsburg' situated in the

municipal forest of Duisburg. This conference site congresses and

workshops from all scientific areas and is equipped with excellent

presentation facilities and modern guest rooms.

The cost of the workshop to each participant is currently estimated at

about DM 500 including accommodation and meals, but the participants'

fee may turn out to be lower depending on funding. The workshop will

also be open to a limited number of participants not contributing a

paper, poster or demo. A call for participation including more

information and a registration form will be sent out later as soon as the

program has been put together.

Please direct any inquiries to the adress above.

---------->------->----->--->->>> <<<-<---<-----<-------<----------

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner *********

Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg *======*

Fachbereich 3 * Computerlinguistik *====*

D-47048 Duisburg *==*
----------------- *

Tel.: (0203) 379-2006/2008

email: hoeppner(at)unidui(dot)uni-duisburg(dot)de

internet: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/hoeppner.html

or: http://verdi.uni-duisburg.de/Englisch/hoeppner.html
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Topic 2:

From: Dr Judy L Delin <jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk>

Subject: Post in Computational Linguistics, Stirling

Lectureship in Computational and Descriptive Linguistics

University of Stirling, Scotland

The University wishes to expand its growing activity in descriptive and

computational linguistics by appointing a Lecturer to work alongside Dr.

Judy Delin in the Department of English Studies.

We are looking for an established researcher in the field who will invest in

the development of research and teaching at Stirling, with expertise in

discourse, pragmatics, contrastive text analysis, natural language

generation, and/or speech generation. Experience or an interest in

contrastive text analysis in languages other than English, especially

Japanese, would be particularly desirable. The level of the appointment

reflects our expectation that the new person will be able to generate

external research funds and will have initiative in developing

collaborative research within and outside the group. The post will be

research-led, but the ideal candidate would also be able to help develop

future undergraduate and postgraduate teaching modules in linguistics

and computational linguistics. Future teaching and our research

development will also require expertise in programming for NLP.

Stirling is a small University situated in what is perhaps the most

beautiful campus in the U.K., and within easy reach of Edinburgh and

Glasgow. The accommodation is modern and well-equipped (networked,

Unix workstation or other platform if preferred). The Lecturer will be part

of the Language and Communication Research Group, an interdisciplinary

group that includes researchers from Psychology, Education, English

Studies, Japanese Studies, and the Centre for English Language

Teaching. Initiative in establishing further cross-disciplinary links will be

particularly encouraged.

The post would be for two years in the first instance with good prospects of

renewal. The appointment will be on the Lecturer B Scale, L. 20677 to

L. 26430 a year, with placement according to qualifications, experience,

and potential. Starting date is negotiable, although we hope that the new

Lecturer will be with us by January 1997.

Informal enquiries are welcome: please contact Dr Judy Delin on(+44) (0)

1786 467974, email: jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk, or consult the Web page at

http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/Communication/post.html. Anyone sending

email or making an enquiry will be informed of the official closing date,

which is likely to be during September 1996, and will be sent a copy of

the further particulars for the post once this date is finalised with

our Staff Office.

Dr Judy Delin

Department of English Studies/Language and Communication Research Group

University of Stirling

Stirling FK9 4LA

Scotland

Tel: (+44) (0) 1786 467974

Fax: (+44) (0) 1786 466201

email: jld1(at)stir(dot)ac(dot)uk

URL: http://www.stir.ac.uk/english/Communication/post.html

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Topic 3:

From: Yorick Wilks <yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk>

Subject: Practical Human-computer conversation by Lake Como 1997

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: PLEASE RECIRCULATE THIS WIDELY

1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION

Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997

We are seeking expressions of interest before formally

announcing a rather different kind of workshop: one that

will survey and demonstrate techniques for practical,

plausible, human computer conversation. The workshop would

be in the spirit of the Loebner Competition meetings, but

would not constitute any kind of "Turing" competition

under controlled deception conditions, but would, we hope,

give opportunity for extensive demonstrations of

working conversational systems, preferably without domain

restrictions.

As well as practical demonstrations we would hope for papers

and discussions on How-To-Do-It: including abstract

discussions of the computer individual as well as reports of

practical experiences of using the large resources and knowledge data

bases now available through forms of information retrieval

and natural language processing and their impact (together

with fast access techniques) on high-quality conversation

simulations. The meeting is not intended to be yet another

get together on linguistic methods for dialogue modelling

or human-computer interaction, but rather based on the

assumption that, in a range of places, great strides are

actually being made in real conversation simulations from

practical techniques and points of view, and that all would

benefit from face-to-face interaction on this, as well as

exploring the industrial/commercial applications of these

technologies in HCI/WWW environments in the very near

future.

The proposed site is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni,

in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como, the

legendary site of Pliny's villa where the two arms of the

lake meet, and one of the most beautiful spots in the world,

though easily reached from Milan. The date, 14-16 July 1997,

immediately follows the EACL/ACL in Madrid.

Working system demonstrations

would be central, and there would also be a range of panels

on aspects of the state of the art.

Interest is solicited by email at the address below from anyone

with new ideas, results or ongoing work to report on any aspect of

human-computer conversation, or those with an interest in or commitment

to the exploitation of this technology.

The emphasis should be on the software techniques for

communication in natural language and NOT on speech recognition

or speech synthesis. Given sufficient interest

a committee will be established and conditions for submission

announced before the end of November 1996. Please put

Serbelloni in the message line of your email. Updatings of

developments for this workshop will be posted to:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/

*********************************

Professor Yorick Wilks

AI and NN Research Group,

Department of Computer Science

University of Sheffield

Regent Court

211 Portobello St.,

Sheffield S1 4DP

UK

phone: (44) 114 282 5561

fax: (44) 114 278 0972

email: yorick(at)dcs(dot)shef(dot)ac(dot)uk

www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/People/Y.Wilks
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===Issue 5===
Date: 07 Jul 1996
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TOPICS:

1. User Modeling Conference 1st CFP - <Cecile.Paris@itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

2. Generation thesis available - Lexical Semantics and Knowledge
Representation in Multilingual Sentence Generation - <stede@cs(dot)tu-berlin(dot)de>
3. Call for Participants - TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA
Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996 - <spb@comp(dot)lancs(dot)ac(dot)uk>

4. 2nd CFP - International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
Bombay, India - December 16-18, 1996 - Deadline Aug 15, 1996 -
<kbcs@konark(dot)ncst(dot)ernet(dot)in>

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Topic 1:

Subject: UM97: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Date: June 2-5 1997 - Deadline 25 November 1996

From: Cecile Paris <Cecile.Paris@itri(dot)brighton(dot)ac(dot)uk>

<center>UM97</center>

<center> SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING</center>

<center>Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, June 2-5 1997</center>

<center>http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ or</center>

<center> http://www.crs4.it/UM97/</center>

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Contents:

Background

Conference Topics

Conference Organization

Brief Submission Instructions

Contact Addresses

Important Dates

————————————— BACKGROUND ——————————————

User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness

and/or usability of software systems in a wide variety of

situations. A user model is an explicit representation of

properties of a particular user. A system that constructs and

consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance

to individual users.

Techniques for user modeling have been developed and evaluated

by researchers in a number of fields, including artificial

intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer

interaction, and information science.

The International Conferences on User Modeling provide a forum

in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these

fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modeling

issues. The size and format of the meetings support intensive

discussion, which often continues long after the conference has

ended.

UM97 follows the Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on

User Modeling, which took place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in

August 1994 and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in January 1996,

respectively. UM97 will include tutorials, invited talks, paper

and poster sessions, a doctoral consortium, workshops, and system

demonstrations.

Accepted papers, as well as summaries of other conference

contributions, will be published in a proceedings volume.

Information about the form of this publication will be made

available via the conference World Wide Web site. The Web site

will also provide access to electronic versions of contributions

to the conference.

The journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction" is

reserving space for expanded versions of the best papers of UM97.

A $500 Best Paper Award is being sponsored by Kluwer Academic

Publishers.

UM97 is being sponsored by AI*IA, the Italian Association for

Artificial Intelligence.

——————————— CONFERENCE TOPICS ————————————

The following nonexhaustive list gives some examples of topics

that are relevant to UM97:

Construction of models of users' ...

* knowledge, beliefs, and misconceptions,
* preferences,
* goals and plans,
* typical behaviors,
 * cognitive styles, ....

Exploitation of user models to achieve ...

* adaptive information filtering and retrieval,
* tailored information presentation,
* transfer of task performance from user to system,
* selection of instructional interventions,
* interface adaptation, ....

Inference techniques involving ...

* neural networks,
* psychometric methods,
* numerical uncertainty management,
* epistemic logic or other logic-based formalisms,
* default reasoning and truth maintenance,
* stereotype hierarchies, ....

Practical issues of ...

* privacy and user model inspectability,
* user model consistency,
* empirical evaluation,
* standardization of user modeling shell systems, ....

Systems for adaptive ...

* tutoring and provision of learning environments,
* explanation of system actions,
* on-line aiding,
* hypermedia and multimodal interaction,
* knowledge-based presentation design,
* product presentation,
* information management on the Internet,
* support of end-user programming,
* accommodation of users with special needs,
* support of collaboration, ....

—————————— CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ——————————

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|General Chair:
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| Carlo Tasso || University of Udine, Italy
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|Organizing Chair:
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|Alessandro Micarelli ||University of Rome 3, Italy
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|Program Co-Chairs:
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|Anthony Jameson ||University of Saarbruecken, Germany
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|Cecile Paris || University of Brighton, UK
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|Program Committee:
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|Nicholas J. Belkin ||Rutgers University, USA
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|Beatrice Cahour || CNRS Rouen, France
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|Sandra Carberry ||University of Delaware, USA
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|Albert Corbett ||Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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|Fiorella de Rosis ||University of Bari, Italy
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|Oren Etzioni ||University of Washington, USA
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|Gerhard Fischer ||University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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|Helen M. Gigley ||Office of Naval Research, USA
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|Brad Goodman ||The MITRE Corporation, USA
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|Eric Horvitz ||Microsoft Research, USA
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|Judy Kay ||Sydney University, Australia
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|Alfred Kobsa ||GMD FIT, Germany
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|Diane Litman ||AT&T Research, USA
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|Pattie Maes ||MIT Media Lab, USA
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|Uwe Malinowski ||Siemens Corporate R&D, Germany
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|Gordon McCalla ||University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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|Michael McTear ||University of Ulster, UK
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| Alessandro Micarelli || University of Rome 3, Italy
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| Robert J. Mislevy ||Educational Testing Service, USA
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| Riichiro Mizoguchi ||Osaka University, Japan
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| Edie M. Rasmussen ||University of Pittsburgh, USA
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| John Self ||University of Leeds, UK
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| Julita Vassileva ||Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany
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|Wolfgang Wahlster || DFKI, Germany
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| Geoff Webb ||Deakin University, Australia
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| Ingrid Zukerman || Monash University, Australia
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|Doctoral Consortium Organizers:
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|Nadja De Carolis ||University of Bari, Italy
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|Fiorella de Rosis ||University of Bari, Italy
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|Workshop Coordinator:
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|Christoph G. Thomas ||GMD FIT, Germany
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|Demonstration Organizer:
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|Giorgio Brajnik ||University of Udine, Italy
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UM97 is being organized jointly by the Department of

Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, the

Department of Scientific Disciplines of the University of Rome 3,

the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari, and CRS4

(Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in

Sardinia), under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc.

———————— BRIEF SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS —————————

PAPERS AND POSTERS

Submissions are invited that describe original academic or

industrial research on some aspect of user modeling.

Papers should describe significant, mature research; they will

be published in full length in the proceedings and presented in

talks at the conference.

Posters typically describe research which does not yet

represent a substantial advance but which can stimulate the

exchange of ideas. Summaries of posters will be included in the

proceedings.

The timetable and the length requirements for poster and paper

submissions are the same. Submissions to the poster category may

make more use of graphics and tables than is usual for paper

submissions, but they must be self-explanatory. If the authors do

not indicate a preference for the paper or poster category, the

program committee will judge which category is more appropriate.

Submissions must fit within 12 single-spaced pages printed with

a 12-point font. These 12 pages must include all elements of the

submission. Page 1 must include the title of the paper, a short

abstract (150 words), a list of keywords, and the authors' postal

and e-mail addresses and fax and phone numbers. The abstract and

the author information on Page 1 must also be included in an

e-mail message that is sent to the program co-chairs one week

before the submission of the manuscript.

A manuscript can be submitted either electronically (as a

PostScript file) or as hard copy. Details of the procedure for

electronic submission will be found in the full submission

instructions for UM97, which authors can obtain via the

conference Web site or by e-mail from the program co-chairs.

All authors should obtain these full submission instructions,

which will also contain information about style files designed to

facilitate manuscript preparation and general tips on how to

maximize the likelihood of acceptance.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The doctoral consortium will offer PhD students a chance to

discuss their plans and the intermediate results of their

research with a diverse and knowledgeable international audience.

Summaries of the accepted presentations will be included in the

proceedings volume.

Further information on the doctoral symposium, including

information about possible sources of funding, can be obtained

via the UM97 Web site and by e-mail from the doctoral consortium

organizers.

WORKSHOPS

Half-day workshops will permit discussion and debate on topics

of current interest. The format for each workshop will be

determined by the proposer of that workshop, who will also set

any necessary deadlines for participants. Before submitting a

proposal, each proposer should obtain instructions and advice via

the conference Web site and/or by e-mail from the UM97 workshop

coordinator.

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

Various platforms will be available for unrefereed system

demonstrations. Prospective presenters should contact the

demonstration organizer by e-mail and specify their hardware and

software requirements.

——————————— CONTACT ADDRESSES ————————————

Up-to-date conference information and detailed submission

instructions can be obtained via either of the following World

Wide Web sites:

http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ (site in Germany) or

http://www.crs4.it/UM97/ (site in Sardinia)

The following addresses can be used for queries and (where

applicable) for submissions:

ORGANIZING CHAIR

um97-organization@cs.uni-sb.de

Fax: Alessandro Micarelli, +39-6-5573030

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

um97-papers@cs.uni-sb.de

Hard-copy submissions:

Anthony Jameson

Department of Computer Science

University of Saarbruecken

Stuhlsatzenhausweg, Building 36.1

66125 Saarbruecken, Germany

Phone: +49-681-302-2474

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ORGANIZERS

um97-doctoral@cs.uni-sb.de

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR

um97-workshops@cs.uni-sb.de

DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZER

um97-demos@cs.uni-sb.de

———————————— IMPORTANT DATES ————————————

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|PAPERS AND POSTERS
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| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of abstracts and
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|25 November 1996 ||author information
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| Monday, || Receipt of electronic submissions
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| 2 December 1996 ||(optional)
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| Tuesday, || E-mail notification to authors if the
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| 3 December 1996 || requirement of hard-copy submission is waived
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| Friday, ||Receipt of 5 hard copies of each
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| 6 December 1996 ||manuscript (except where the hard-copy requirement was waived on 3 December)
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|Wednesday, || Notification of authors by e-mail about
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| 26 February 1997 || acceptance or rejection of submissions
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| Monday, || Receipt of electronic versions of
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| 31 March 1997 || camera-ready papers and summaries of posters
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|DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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| Wednesday, ||Receipt by e-mail of 3-page submissions
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|5 February 1997 ||as ASCII text
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| Wednesday, ||Notification to authors by e-mail about
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| 5 March 1997 || acceptance or rejection of submissions
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| Monday, ||Receipt of electronic versions of
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|31 March 1997 || camera-ready summaries of presentations
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|WORKSHOPS
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| Monday, || Receipt by e-mail of 3-page workshop
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| 20 January 1997 || proposals as ASCII text
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| Friday, || Notification by e-mail to workshop
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| 14 February 1997 || proposers about acceptance or rejection of proposals
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| Friday, || Submission, by proposers of accepted
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| 21 February 1997 ||workshops, of final calls for participation
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| Tuesday, || Availability via the UM97 Web site
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| 25 February 1997 ||and by e-mail of calls for participation in workshops
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|SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS
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|Tuesday, || Registration of system demonstrations
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| 15 April 1997 ||by e-mail
|}

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Topic 2:

Subject: Generation thesis available

Date: 20 June 1996

From: Manfred Stede <stede@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Manfred Stede: Lexical semantics and knowledge representation in

multilingual sentence generation.

University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science, 1996.

This thesis develops a new approach to automatic language generation

that focuses on the need to produce a range of different {\em

paraphrases} from the same input representation. One feature of the

system is its solidly grounding representations of word meaning in a

background knowledge base, which enables the production of paraphrases

stemming from certain inferences, rather than from purely lexical

relationships alone.

The system is designed in such a way that the paraphrasing mechanism

extends naturally to a {\em multilingual} generator; specifically, we

will be concerned with producing English and German sentences. The

focus of the system is on {\em lexical} paraphrases, and one of the

contributions of the thesis is in identifying, analyzing and extending

relevant linguistic research so that it can be used to handle the

problems of lexical semantics in a language generation system. The

{\em lexical entries} are more complex than in previous generators,

and they separate the various aspects of word meaning, so that

different ways of paraphrasing can be systematically related to the

different motivations for saying a sentence in a particular way. One

result of accounting for lexical semantics in this fashion is a

formalization of a number of {\em verb alternations}, for which a

generative treatment is given.

While the actual {\em choice} of one paraphrase as the best-suited utterance

in a given situation is not a focal point of the thesis, two dimensions

of {\em preferring} a variant of a sentence are discussed: that of

assigning {\em salience} to the different elements of the sentence, and

that of {\em connotational} or {\em stylistic} features of the utterance.

These dimensions are integrated into the system, and it can thus

determine a preferred paraphrase from a set of alternatives.

To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, the proposed

generation architecture has been implemented as a protoype, along with a

domain model that serves as the background knowledge base for specifying

the input to the generator. A range of generated examples is presented

to show the functionality of the system.

> If interested in either a hardcopy or a postscript file, please

> contact the author at stede@cs.tu-berlin.de

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Topic 3:

Subject: Call for Participants TALC96 - Teaching and Language Corpora

Date: Lanncaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996

From: "Mr S P Botley" <spb@comp.lancs.ac.uk>

<center> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS</center>

<center>TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA</center>

<center>Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996</center>

<center><http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/></center>

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well

established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching

purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create

teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora

by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages.

Talc96 will build upon the success of Talc94, which brought together

researchers and teachers who are involved in such work, to take part in

an international exchange of current experience and expertise.

THEMES

KEY THEME: Talc96 will have a special focus on evaluating the claims

made for corpora in linguistics and language teaching.

OTHER THEMES: which the conference is expected to cover include -

1.) The use of corpora in student led learning and investigation.

2.) Software for corpus based language and linguistics learning.

3.) Developing corpora for teaching purposes.

4.) The exploitation of corpus based teaching and learning materials.

5.) The theory and practice of corpus based teaching and learning.

WORKSHOPS

Talc96 will also host several workshops related to teaching and

language corpora. To give an example of what those workshops may be,

Talc94 had a variety of workshops such as "Multilingual Corpus

Building" and "Concordancing and Corpus Retrieval". Workshops will be

of one to two hour duration.

<center>TALC96 - Programme of Events</center>

Is available at <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/>

Please register BEFORE 21st July 1996, otherwise we cannot guarantee

availability of accommodation.

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Topic 4:

Subject: KBCS-96 (2nd CFP) Deadline Extended

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 - Deadline 15 August 1996

From: KBCS Word Processing <kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in>

<center> Second Call for Papers</center>

<center>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON</center>

<center> KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS</center>

<center> National Centre for Software Technology</center>

<center> Bombay, India</center>

<center> December 16-18, 1996</center>

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 15, 1996

<center>URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html</center>
____________________________________________________________________________
The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be held

in Bombay, India during December 16-18, 1996. The conference is intended to

act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of

Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. There will be a two day

conference during December 16-17, 1996 followed by one day of

post-conference tutorials on December 18, 1996.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on

all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the

following:
{|
|o AI Applications ||o AI Architectures
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|o Artificial Life ||o Automatic Programming
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|o Cognitive Modeling ||o Expert Systems
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|o Foundations of AI ||o Genetic Algorithms
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|o Information Retrieval ||o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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|o Knowledge Acquisition ||o Knowledge Representation
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|o Machine Learning ||o Machine Translation
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|o Natural Language Processing ||o Neural Networks
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|o Planning and Scheduling ||o Reasoning
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|o Robotics ||o Search Techniques
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|o Speech Processing ||o Theorem Proving
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|o Uncertainty Handling ||o User Interfaces
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|o User Modeling || o Vision
|}

Programme Committee:

{|
|S. Arunkumar, IIT, Bombay ||Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
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|Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay ||Margaret A. Boden, U of Sussex, UK
|-
|Nick Cercone, U of Regina, Canada ||B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
|-
|R. Chandrasekar, NCST, Bombay ||S. K. Goyal, GTE Labs , USA
|-
|S. S. Gupta, TUL, Bombay ||J. R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
|-
|Aravind K. Joshi, ||R. A. Kowalski, Imperial College, UK
|-
|U of Pennsylvania, USA
|-
|H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore ||M. Narasimha Murthy, IISc, Bangalore
|-
|R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore ||S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay (Chair)
|-
|P. V. S. Rao, TIFR, Bombay ||Patrick Saint-Dizier,U of Paul Sabatier, France

|-
|R. Sangal, IIT, Kanpur ||R. Uthurusamy, GMR, USA
|-
|M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore
|}
Format of Submission:

Authors should submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words (including

figures and references) either electronically or in hard copy. Papers

should be in English. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200

words in length. Papers outside the specified length are subject to

rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the authors'

names and affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given

only on a separate cover sheet. Hard copy submissions should be sent in

triplicate. Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following

formats: plain text, Postscript, Latex, Microsoft Word, or Wordstar.

Submissions in electronic form are preferred.

Send papers to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Paper Submission Deadlines:

o Papers due: August 15, 1996

o Acceptance Notification: October 15, 1996

o Camera Ready Copy due: December 1, 1996

Call for Tutorials:

Proposals are invited for post-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be

half-day or full-day, and will be held on December 18th, 1996. The

proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page

topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their

qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Tutorial Submission Deadlines:

o Proposal Submission: July 31, 1996

o Acceptance Notification: August 31, 1996

o Complete Tutorial materials due: December 1, 1996

Send proposals to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Organizing Committee:

{|
|George Arakal, NCST (Chair) ||K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, NCST
|-
|P. Ravi Prakash, NCST ||Durgesh D. Rao, NCST
|-
|M. Sasikumar, NCST ||T. Suresh, NCST
|}

For further information please refer to the KBCS-96 home page or

write to the KBCS-96 Secretariat.

___________________________________________________________________________
Address

{|
|KBCS-96 Secretariat || Phone : +91 (22) 620 1606
|-
|National Centre for Software Technology ||Fax : +91 (22) 621 0139
|-
|Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9 ||E-mail : kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in
|-
|Juhu, Bombay 400 049, India
|}

URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
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===A===
*[http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG]
**[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer (Australia)
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
*[http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
**Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Senior Technical Staff
**[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent]
*[http://www.cs.aueb.gr Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
**[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos]
===B===
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer]
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
**[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier]
**[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch]
*[http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
**Irene Langkilde-Geary
===C===
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
**Nathalie Colineau
**Cécile Paris
*Calvin College, USA
**[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden]
*[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology
*[http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
**[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge]
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown]
**[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau]
**[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow]
*[http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
**[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim]
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
**Claude Ponton
===D===
*[http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann]
*[http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
**[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich]
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
**[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher]
===E===
*[http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
**[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak]
===F===
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
**[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin]
*[http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
**[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro]
*France Telecom, France
**[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget]
===G===
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
**[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble]
*Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
**[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal]
*Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
**Vladimir Popescu, [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS]
===H===
*[http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
**[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz]
*[http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
**[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia]
**[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab]
===I===
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue]
**Nicolas Nicolov
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw]
*[http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
**[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll]
*[http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock]
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
**[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy]
**[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu]
*[http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
**[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani]
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
**Mark Maybury
*[http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
**[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn]
*[http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
**Aravind K. Joshi
**Rashmi Prasad
*Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR
**Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki, [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory]
*Intel
**[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran]
===J===
*[http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ Joint Research Center], European Commission
**[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer
===L===
*[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
**[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock] ([mailto:michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr email])
*La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
**[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science]
===M===
*Macquarie University], Australia
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology]
**[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology]
*[http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
**[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen]
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
**[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS]
*[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/ Microsoft Research]
**[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
**Bilge Say
*Monash University, Australia
**[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering]
===N===
*[http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
**Sabine Geldof, Researcher
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
**Gregory Sanders
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
**[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan]
*[http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications]
**Ronald Kaplan, Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
**James Lester
**[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor
*[http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
**[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman]
===O===
*[http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University (OSU)], Columbus, OH, USA
**[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://ling.ohio-state.edu Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Deptartment of Linguistics]
*Open University, England, UK
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
*Otago University, New Zealand
**[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science]
===Q===
*[http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard]
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison]
===R===
*Rutgers University, USA
**[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science]
===S===
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler]
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek]
**[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI]
*[http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
**[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds]
*[http://www.sift.net/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
**[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald]
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
**[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt]
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
**[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH
===T===
*[http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
**[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg]
*[http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
**[mailto:blake.howald@thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist
**[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager
*[http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher
===U===
*[http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás]
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás]
**[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid]
*[http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
**[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], Dipartimento di Informatica
*Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
**[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha]
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction]
*[http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
**[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey]
*Universite Paris 7, France
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
*[http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
**[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers]
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], Scotland
**[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student
**[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han]
**[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter]
*[http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André]
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
**[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman]
*University of Brighton, UK
**[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)]
**[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG]
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
**[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini]
*[http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
*University of Cambridge], UK
**[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab]
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey]
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy]
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
**[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed]
*University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
**[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences]
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence]
**[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics]
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
**[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou]
**[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
**[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls]
*[http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
**[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student
**[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis]
*[http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
**[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel]
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
**[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock]
*[http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio]
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu]
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
**[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali]
*University of Liverpool, UK
**[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
**[mailto:bikash.gyawali@loria.fr Bikash Gyawali]
**[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan]
*[http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
**[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt]
*University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
**[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information]
*University of New York, Queens College], USA
**[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth]
*University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
**[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences]
*University of Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program]
**[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman]
*University of Potsdam, Germany
**[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs Department of Computer Science]
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks]
*[http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
**[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies]
*[http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
**[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin]
*University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
**[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme]
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill]
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva]
**[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott]
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
**[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff]
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
**[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni]
*[http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
**[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal]
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
**[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward]
*[http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
**[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer]
**[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi]
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
**[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst]
*University of Trento], Trento, Italy
**[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology]
*[http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
**[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger]
*University of Twente, The Netherlands
**[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction]
*[http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
**[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney]
*University of Waterloo, Canada
**[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science]
*University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
**[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
**[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng]
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller]
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul]
*[http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
**[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis]
*Université de Montpellier 2, France
**[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
===V===
===W===
*Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
**[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell]
===X===
===Y===
===Z===

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MISCELLANEOUS
*[http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/ The Linguist List Personal Pages of Linguists]
*[http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=People Who's who in NLP/CL in the ACL Wiki]

Natural Language Generation Portal

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[[File:Siggen_logo_small.JPG|right]]
''This portal is based on and replaces the [http://www.siggen.org/resources/moin.html NLG Resources Wiki] run by [http://www.siggen.org/ ACL SIGGEN] from November 2005 to February 2009.''

== Resources for Natural Language Generation ==

* [[Downloadable NLG systems]]
* [[Data sets for NLG]]
* [[Generation grammars]]
* [[Online NLG demos]]
* [[NLG publications list]]
* [[NLG research groups]]

Additionally, a large [http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/ database of implemented NLG systems with references] has been
put together by Michael Zock and John Bateman, and is now maintained in a Semantic Wiki at http://nlg-wiki.org.

[[Category:Natural Language Generation|*]]
[[Category:Imported from the SIGGEN Resources Wiki]]
[[Category:Resources]]
[[Category:Natural Language Generation Portal]]

SIGGEN: Newsletter Archive

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SIGGEN: ACL Reports

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{|
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|[[File:Siggen_logo_small.JPG|left]]||Listed below are annual reports of the SIGGEN board to the Association for Computational Linguistics.
|}

__TOC__
More ACL reports can be found in the [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Reports ACL Admin Wiki] and in the [http://www.aclweb.org/archive/reports.html ACL Report Archive].

==SIGGEN report 2009 (submitted 2 July 2009)==

ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009

SIGGEN continues to be a valued shared resource for an active and developing
community of researchers in natural language generation. Over the past year we
have achieved full compliance with ACL SIG requirements, held elections for
the board, updated our online presence, given endorsement to three related
workshops (with three more in the pipeline), and agreed a host for the next
INLG conference, in Ireland in 2010.

SIGGEN is now fully compliant with ACL SIG requirements, including (slightly
reluctantly) the assignment of officer roles (chair, secretary, treasurer,
webmaster) to various board members. The new arrangements were fully confirmed
in an election to the board at the end of 2008 - the next election is due at
the end of 2010. We would like to thank the outgoing board members, Charles
Callaway, David McDonald, Jette Viethen for their hard work on behalf of the
generation community, and welcome our new members, Cecile Paris,
Christian Pietsch and Sebastian Varges who join Roger Evans and Mike White on
the SIGGEN board.

SIGGEN organises the biennial INLG conferences, and this year was a rest year
after the very successful INLG 2008 at Salt Fork, Ohio, USA. Following an open
bidding process in early 2009, we were delighted to award organisation of INLG
2010 to Ielka van der Sluis (Trinity College, Dublin), John Kelleher and Brian
McNamee (Dublin Institute of Technology). INLG 2010 will be held in Trim,
County Meath, Ireland, 7-9 July 2010. In addition, SIGGEN offers
(non-financial) endorsement to workshops and activities related to generation,
and this year we were pleased to support the Third Workshop on Constraints in
Discourse (Potsdam, August 2008), a Workshop on the Question Generation Task
and Evaluation Challenge (Arlington, September 2008) and the 12th European
Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09) (Athens, April 2009).
Support for three further workshops in July and August 2009 (UCNLG+Sum, GIVE-2
and PRE-Cogsci 2009)is also already agreed, so we look forward to a busy year
for the NLG community.

In January 2009, Christian Pietsch took over the role of SIGGEN webmaster, and
gave our online presence a much needed review. As well as a general tidy-up of
the main pages, Christian undertook to transfer the SIGGEN wiki site,
previously hosted at Edinburgh by David Reitter, into the main [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Natural_Language_Generation_Portal ACL wiki],
and to re-establish clear email addresses for contacting the SIGGEN board
through the main ACL mail server (siggen-board (at) aclweb (dot) org etc.). We continue
to explore effective ways to support communication and access to resources for
the generation community.

SIGGEN's financial position is healthy. We last reported our account balance
(as a subaccount of the ACL account) in 2007 as $928 (all figures in US
dollars). We have since confirmed that INLG 2006 did not alter this balance
(as it ran as an ACL workshop, hence the risk and any surpus were assumed by
the main conference), and can now report that INLG 2008 made a surplus of
$2943, so that our current balance stands at $3871. Such a reserve is useful
to underwrite risk in free-standing events, and to allow for the possibility
of subsidising attendance to the INLG conference.

Roger Evans, Cecile Paris, Christian Pietsch, Sebastian Varges, Mike White

SIGGEN board
2 July 2009

==SIGGEN report 2008 (with minor corrections made by Roger Evans in July 2009)==
The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on
our web site, http://www.siggen.org. We organize international workshops every
other year. This is an 'on' year and we just finished our workshop at Salt
Fork, Ohio (linguistics.osu.edu/inlg2008/). Over 50 people attended, with many
new faces. We colocated with the 2008 referring expression generation
challenge: (http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08).

We lend our name in endorsing natural language generation (NLG) related events
when we are asked and the topic of the event seems appropriate to the NGL
community. This past year we sponsored [http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ivdsluis/mog2008/ the second workshop ]on Multimodal
Output Generation, MOG 2008, in Aberdeen, Scotland in April; and Using Corpora for NLG:
[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ Language Generation and Machine Translation].

This year we had a referendum to choose among several alternative for how to
bring our constitution in line with the ACL guidelines. We had about a 20%
response rate. The now compliant revised document is on our web page.

We have been accumulating and posting the papers of old workshops of any sort
that involve NLG on http://www.siggenarchive.org.uk/.
==SIGGEN report 2007==
ACL SIGGEN report 2006-2007

SIGGEN is in good health. SIGGEN members have organised a range of meetings,
with more in the pipeline - the SIGGEN board would particularly like to thank
all the organisers of these events for their hard work on behalf of the
community.

Events this year:

- INLG'06 (Sydney, August 2006 - part of ACL'06)

- Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (Aberdeen, January 07)

- Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in NLG (Arlington,
April 07)
- ENLG'07 (Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2007 - prior to ACL'07)

Future events:

- Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and Machine
Translation (Copenhagen, September 07 - part of MT Summit)

- INLG'08 (Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008)

There has been a lot of discussion and engagement in the SIGGEN community over
the last year, in particular associated with proposals to set up 'shared task'
evaluations which have become a feature in many other areas of NLP. This has
resulted in the establishment of the first Shared Task and Evaluation Campaign
for NLG, organised by Anja Belz (Brighton), Ehud Reiter and Albert Gatt
(Aberdeen) and Jette Viethen (Macquarie), taking place from May-September
2007.

Electronic communication has been quite modest. The SIGGEN website has been
well maintained, but the mailing list has seen fairly low volumes of traffic,
and the wiki has also not quite taken off yet, although it does have quite a
lot of useful content. The SIGGEN board aim to improve the SIG's electronic
profile over coming months, reviewing the role and delivery of the wiki, and
exploring the establishment of a repository for NLG papers not submittable to
the main ACL repository.

Elections for three committee posts were held in 2006, resulting in the
appointment of Michael White, Roger Evans and Jette Viethen (student
representative). The board thanks the outgoing members (Tilman Becker, Irene
Langkilde-Geary and David Reiter) for their work on behalf of SIGGEN. The
board has responded to the ACL request to improve compliance with SIG
guidelines, and are now fully compliant apart from board and election
structure - this requires consultation with the membership and possible
constitutional changes and will be pursued over coming months. A call for
proposals to host INLG'08 was issued, resulting in a successful bid from
Michael White and Crystal Nakatsu (Ohio State) and David McDonald (BBN) to
host in Ohio. Budgets and a contract with the venue have been negotiated. The
SIGGEN shadow account shows a balance of $928, but figures for INLG'06 have
not yet been taken into account.

Charles Callaway, Roger Evans, David McDonald, Jette Viethen, Michael White

SIGGEN board

==SIGGEN report 2006==
SIGGEN report 2005-2006

Conferences and Workshops:

- [http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W05/ ENLG 2005, Aberdeen]

- INLG 2006, Sydney

- [http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/Proceedings/index.html Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG]

- planned:

 - WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL OUTPUT GENERATION
to be held on January 25 and 26, 2007 at Aberdeen University

- ENLG 2007 (with ACL 2007, Prag early June)

Other activities:

- finalized INLG 2004 finances w/ profit

- newsletter, mailing list

- website with Wiki hosted at DFKI and UEDIN: www.siggen.org

upcoming elections

1) Tilman B. has finished his two years

2) Irene G. has finished the last year of Lyn Walker's term

3) David R. has finished as students get only a one-year term

4) David M. and Charles have one year left
==SIGGEN report 2005==
SIGGEN annual report for the period July 2004 to June 2005

SIGGEN, the special interest group in Natural Language Generation has started a
number of activities this year. Charles Callaway, David McDonald and Irene Geary
were elected as new regular members, David Reitter was elected as the student
member and Tilman Becker is staying on the board for another year.

The SIGGEN website is now located at
http://www.siggen.org
and it is hosted at DFKI. The content has been completely revised, including the
who-is-who. At the same time, the mailing-list which doubles as the membership
register has been validated and currently has 209 entries.
Also, a regular newsletter has been re-instated, the first issue May/June 2005 has just
been published.

SIGGEN is currently preparing for its main event, the bi-annual conference INLG.
A call for bids for INLG 2006 has been posted. In the last year, four events have
been officially sponsored by SIGGEN:

-EWNLG 2005, the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
8-10 August 2005, in Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

- 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
30th July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland (as part of IJCAI-2005)
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/CMNA5/ 

- Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
July 14, in Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

- Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation
at the Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 7, 2005
http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Tilman Becker,

 June 2005

==SIGGEN report 2003==
SIGGEN (Owen Rambow)

Owen Rambow, rambow AT cs.columbia.edu

SIGGEN report 2003

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year was INLG-02, which
SIGGEN sponsored and supported. It was held in Columbia University's Arden
House, near New York City, just before ACL (which took place in Philadelphia).
While submissions were as in previous years (with, as in previous years, an
acceptance rate of about 50%), attendance was below expectations (about 75
paying attendants, down from the record 100 at the workshop in 1998, with the
first conference in Israel in 2000 having a lower attendance, presumably due to
the location). An attempt to extend the audience by having special paper
tracks on both dialog and summarization were not successful, perhaps due to
lack of sufficient publicity outside of the standard NLG communities, and/or
lack of NLG-related work in these areas outside of the NLG community (which
would submit anyway). A further factor for low attendance may have been the
co-location with ACL, from which it was separated by the July 4 holiday.

It was decided that INLG04 will be organized by a group at the University of
Brighton and take place near Southampton, England.

There has been a request by Susan Haller to co-sponsor a special track on user
modeling and HCI approaches in natural language generation at FLAIRS.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: The web site needs to be updated.Helmut Horacek and
Tilman Becker have jointly taken over this task.

ELECTION: A contested election was held for new board members. Tilman Becker
(Saarbrücken) and Marilyn Walker (Sheffield) replaced Maria Milosavljevic and
Ehud Reiter as permanent board members, and Stephen Wan (Sydney) replaced
NoŽmie Elhadad as student member.

==SIGGEN report 2002==
Report on SIGGEN 01-02

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year is INLG-02,
which SIGGEN is sponsoring and supporting. It will be held in Columbia
University's Arden House, near New York City, just before ACL. For
more information see the conference web site at
http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/.

SIGGEN did not this year receive any requests to offer "support
in name" for NLG workshops. This is probably because there are no
specific NLG events this year other than INLG. This would be worrying
if it marks the start of a trend, but we hope it is just a one-off
blip, and that next year we will again see NLG workshops either stand-alone
or as part of other conferences.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: One technical change, which is that the
mailing list was moved to a new server. But in general both seem to
bw working well, and providing useful information to the community.

ELECTION: An election was held for new board members. Owen Rambow and
Helmut Horacek replaced Daniel Marcu and Keith vander Linden as
permanent board members, and Noemie Elhadad replaced Irene Langkilde
as student member.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: Comments were solicited from the community on
a formal constitution, and a draft constitution was posted on the
SIGGEN web page. We expect to discuss the constitution at INLG-02,
and then hold a formal acceptance vote.
==SIGGEN report 2001==
SIGGEN Report

Ehud Reiter

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: SIGGEN solicited bids for INLG-02.
One bid was received, from Kathy McKeown to hold INLG in Arden
House in New York State. The committee of previous INLG chairs
accepted this bid, after passing on some comments and suggestions
to Kathy. SIGGEN also offered "support in name" to the 2001
European NLG workshop (which is associated with ACL'01) and
to the International workshop on Computational Models of
Natural Language Argument (associated with ICCS'01). We also
decided we would like to keep statistical data (papers, attendees,
finances) on INLG conferences, and managed to retrospectively
gather such data for several past INLGs.

MAILING LIST: We had some perhaps inappropriate postings
on the SIGGEN mailing list (and some people shortly afterwards
removed themselves from the list), so we decided to make it moderated.
The moderators are two board members (Maria Milosavljevic
and Ehud Reiter). After moderation, the SIGGEN mailing list is
low-frequency (less than 10 messages per month) but high quality,
and very few people have unsubscribed from the list subsequently.

WEB SITE: Our Web site continues to be an up-to-date list of
conferences, announcements, jobs, books, and other information
useful to the NLG community.

ELECTION: As agreed in INLG-00, we are holding an election for
two (of the four) non-student board members, plus the student member;
two of the existing non-student members will stay on. A call
for candidates was sent out on 1 May 2001, and the election itself
will happen over the summer.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: We discussed the new ACL Guidelines for
SIG's, but felt that any changes to SIGGEN's structure should
be discussed and approved at an INLG business meeting, it
would be inappropriate for the current board to act on its own.
==SIGGEN report 1999==
IGGEN (Ehud Reiter, Daniel Marcu)

Report on SIGGEN 98-99

An election for SIGGEN board was held in October 1998, via email.
There were 6 candidates for regular board member, of which 4 were elected,
and 2 candidates for student board member, of which one was elected.
The new board members are Irene Langkilde (ISI, USA; student member),
Daniel Marcu (ISI, USA), Maria Milosavljevic (Dynamic Multimedia Pty Ltd,
Australia), Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen, UK), and Keith Vander Linden
(Calvin College, USA). None of the new members had previously served on
the SIGGEN board.

Activities after the election include

* a new and expanded Web site (http://www.dynamicmultimedia.com.au/siggen)

* a new-look email newsletter (back issues available on the Web page)

* an open discussion (again via the Web page) on the future of the International Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLGW) and other NLG events.

Future plans include creating an archive of NLG material, both technical
(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the
organisation of NLG workshops).

==SIGGEN report 1994==
SIGGEN

David McDonald

mcdonald AT cs.brandeis.edu

As in the past, SIGGEN's activities this past year have revolved around its
moderated bboard, the workshops of the membership, and initiatives being worked
on by its five person organizing committee.

Our bulletin board resides at "siggen (at) benus (dot) bgl (dot) ac (dot) il". Queries, announcements,
and other messages to the group can be sent there and will be collected and
forwarded to the whole group. 

Two workshops on language generation are being held this year. SIGGEN acts just
as a mediator in coordinating workshops, though this year many on the organizing
committee were also principals in these workshops' organizing committees. The
Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be / was held
this June in Kennebunkport Maine. [Details to go into Finite String report] An
invited workshop on generation will be held in Dagstuhl, Germany in July. 

We have started three new projects via SIGGEN and anticipate beginning a fourth.
We are trying to develop a comprehensive description of the field of natural
language generation in terms of a set of well defined and balanced subject
keywords with pointers back to the existing literature. An initial draft of this
list should be available in the early fall for community discussion. The aim is
to be inclusive and non-presumptive, so we are seeking creative ways to present
the keyword and cross-index set that will make this possible.

We are trying to make the unpublished papers of past generation workshops
available in some form over the net. The technical means for accommodating this
is still being worked out since our authors use a wide variety of editors and
formats and the search for a workable common denominator that is not too low is
still ongoing. 

We are also compiling a description of the steps that go into organizing our
workshops and compiling a set of materials that should be reusable so that the
next organizers will not have to start essentially from scratch as has been the
case in the past. 

Finally, with the evaluation of natural language systems having become so
important and with the long-standing difficulty of even defining what it would
mean to compare two generators (different assumptions about the boundaries of
the process, different representations of the source and different kinds and
amounts of information in it, differences in the task and setting, etc.), we
anticipate that we will also initiate a community discussion of evaluation via
our query board, and solicit careful descriptions of common technical problems,
linguistic or semantic phenomena that are problematic for generators (or
presumed to be simple), etc. The result would be a shared and evolving workbook
can be accumulated for researchers to consult. 

==SIGGEN report 1993==
SIGGEN (NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION)

Karen Kukich

18 June 1993

MEMBERSHIP
SIGGEN membership, which currently stands at 170, is open to any member
of the ACL whose dues are paid for the current year. Anyone wishing to
become a SIGGEN member may contact David McDonald at
siggen AT cs.brandeis.edu or at the postal address below. The SIGGEN
mailing/membership list is available to SIGGEN members.

SIGGEN BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The SIGGEN Board of Directors is in transition. Volunteer nominations
were solicited and an election was held in May and June of 93 to
replace two members of the SIGGEN committee with one new professional
member and one new student member. Karen Kukich and Marie Meteer
volunteered to vacate their positions to create new openings. The
results of the nominations and voting were as follows:

PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS:
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{|
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| Michael Elhadad || 23
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|Cecile Paris ||21
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|Koenraad Desmedt ||17
|}

GRAD STUDENT VOLUNTEERS:
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{|
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|Manfred Stede ||25
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|Nicolas Nicolov ||24
|-
|Massimo Fasciano ||9
|}

Thus, the new SIGGEN Board of Directors will be comprised of the following:

{|
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|David McDonald ||Johanna Moore
|-
|Content Technologies ||University of Pittsburgh
|-
|14 Brantwood Road ||520 LRDC
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|Arlington, MA 02174-8004 USA ||Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
|-
|Mcdonald AT cs.brandeis.edu ||jmoore AT cs.pitt.edu
|-
|||
|-
|Robert Dale ||Michael Elhadad
|-
|University of Edinburgh ||Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
|-
|Centre for Cognitive Science ||Ben Gurion University of the Negev
|-
|2 Buccleuch Place ||Beer Sheva 84105
|-
|Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland ||Israel
|-
|R.Dale AT edinburgh.ac.uk ||elhadad AT bengus.BGU.AC.IL
|-
| ||
|-
|Manfred Stede
|-
|Department of Computer Science
|-
|University of Toronto
|-
|Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada
|-
|mstede AT cs.toronto.edu
|}

Board members are meeting at the ACL-93 meeting to plan for the
transistion.

SIGGEN QUERY BOARD

The SIGGEN QueryBoard address will change. During 1993 the QueryBoard
served as a forum for a lengthy discussion of SIGGEN's raison d'etre
and its role in various activities. SIGGEN has sponsored various
workshops and mtgs in the past, but SIGGEN as not itself organized such
meetings. Some SIGGEN members feel strongly that SIGGEN itself should
NOT organize or govern such mtgs, tho it might help coordinate the
scheduling of such mtgs with other ACL functions. Other SIGGEN members
have suggested that some SIGGEN committee, perhaps analogous to the
AAAI secretariate, be set up, by election, to oversee the organization
of such mtgs. These issues will be addressed by the new SIGGEN board
members.

SIGGEN SPONSORED WORKSHOPS

SIGGEN co-sponsored the following workshops during the past year:

1) The Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Burning Issues in Discourse,
Maratea, Italy, 13th - 15th April, 1993. A notice was posted to the
SIGGEN mailing list that proceedings are available for a fee of 8 US
dollars or 5 pounds sterling from:
Donia Scott,
Information Technology Research Institute,
University of Brighton,
Brighton Bn1 4AT,
England

2) The Fourth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation,
Pisa - Italy - April 28-30, 1993. An informal report on this
workshop written by Robin Fawcett and Koenraad de Smedt was posted
to the SIGGEN mailing list. 

3) The ACL Workshop on Intentionality & Discourse Structure, Columbus,
Ohio, June 21, 1993. Proceedings will be available from Owen Rambow,
rambow AT unagi.cis.upenn.edu.

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL NLG WORKSHOP

The International NLG Workshop has been the primary mtg for NLG
researchers. The SIGGEN community has been discussing various issues
concerning how this and related mtgs might be organized in the future.
A committee consisting of McDonald, de Smedt, Fawcett, Hovy, Meteer,
and Scott will be making a recommendation soon.

NLG BIBLIOGRAHY

A new revised version (23rd February 1993) of Robert Dale's NLG
bibliography, in compressed PostScript form, is available by anonymous
ftp from scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Internet 129.215.144.3). This version
includes new material that has appeared within the last year, plus a
significant number of additions and corrections provided by members of
the NLG community.

13. SIGPHON (COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY)

Steven Bird

10 June 93

The purpose of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational
Phonology is to (i) place computational phonology firmly on the
research agenda in computational linguistics, (ii) develop links
between researchers in computational phonology, and (iii) facilitate
the dissemination of research results and software.

Current membership stands at 110 people and members generally have an
active interest in the field rather than just being onlookers. Members
receive a bimonthly newsletter and have access to an FTP directory
which houses the membership directory, newsletter back-issues, research
papers and software. This year, the SIG proposed and was granted a
special issue of _Computational Linguistics_, and 22 papers are
currently under review. The SIG has recently been advertised in
_Phonology_ and in _Computer Speech and Language_, as we try to build
on our membership and promote dialogue between the speech and language
communities.

For further information, contact:

Steven Bird. 

University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science

2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland, U.K.

Telephone: (031) 650-4421/4432. Fax: (031) 650-4587.

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Active topics of interest include:

*Discourse models, content planning.
*Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.
*Architecture of generators.
*Lexical choice.
*Psychological modelling of discourse production.
*Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.
*Multilingual or multi-modal generation.
*Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).
*Learning methods.
*Evaluation of generation results.

Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:

*Grammar theory
*Statistical methods
*Speech synthesis
*Psycholinguistics
*Neuroscience
*Philosophy

== Upcoming Events ==

== 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 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.

== Board ==
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent] ([mailto:Claire(dot)Gardent(ta)loria(dot)fr mail]) CNRS Director of Research based in the LORIA Computer Science research unit of [http://en.nancy-tourisme.fr/ Nancy] France. [mailto:siggen-chair(ta)aclweb(dot)org chair])
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt] ([mailto:albert(dot)gatt(ta)um(dot)edu(dot)mt mail]) [http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/ Institute of Linguistics], [http://www.um.edu.mt/ University of Malta]. ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(ta)aclweb(dot)org secretary] 2011-2012)
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio] ([mailto:bdieugen(ta)cs(dot)uic(dot)edu mail]) [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ Computer Science Department], University of Illinois at Chicago ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(ta)aclweb(dot)org treasurer])
:elected in December 2012 for the period from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2016
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser] ([mailto:v.t(dot)rieser(ta)hw(dot)ac.uk mail]) [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/departments/computer-science.htm School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University], Edinburgh
:elected in December 2012 for the period from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2016
*Xiao Li ([mailto:xiao(dot)li(ta)abdn.ac(dot)uk mail]) University of Aberdeen (student member, [mailto:siggen-webmaster(ta)aclweb(dot)org webmaster])
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2016

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

For questions regarding this website, please email: '''siggen-webmaster (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''.

==[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/siggen.html Workshop Proceedings ] ==

==Archive==

==[[SIGGEN:_Constitution|Constitution]]==
== [[SIGGEN:_Who%27s_Who_in_NLG|Who's Who in NLG]]==
== [[SIGGEN:_What%27s_Where_in_NLG|What's Where in NLG]]==

== Resources ==
[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Portal]]

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{|
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Active topics of interest include:
<ul>
<li>Discourse models, content planning.</li>
<li>Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.</li>
<li>Architecture of generators.</li>
<li>Lexical choice.</li>
<li>Psychological modelling of discourse production.</li>
<li>Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.</li>
<li>Multilingual or multi-modal generation.</li>
<li>Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).</li>
<li>Learning methods.</li>
<li>Evaluation of generation results.</li>
</ul>
Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:
<ul>
<li>Grammar theory</li>
<li>Statistical methods</li>
<li>Speech synthesis</li>
<li>Psycholinguistics</li>
<li>Neuroscience</li>
<li>Philosophy</li>
</ul>
== Upcoming Events ==

== Board ==
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent] ([mailto:Claire(dot)Gardent(at)loria(dot)fr mail]) CNRS Director of Research based in the LORIA Computer Science research unit of [http://en.nancy-tourisme.fr/ Nancy] France. [mailto:siggen-chair(at)aclweb(dot)org chair])
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt] ([mailto:albert(dot)gatt(at)um(dot)edu(dot)mt mail]) [http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/ Institute of Linguistics], [http://www.um.edu.mt/ University of Malta]. ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(at)aclweb(dot)org secretary] 2011-2012)
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio] ([mailto:bdieugen(at)cs(dot)uic(dot)edu mail]) [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ Computer Science Department], University of Illinois at Chicago ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(at)aclweb(dot)org treasurer])
:elected in December 2012 for the period from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2016
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser] ([mailto:v.t(dot)rieser(at)hw(dot)ac.uk mail]) [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/departments/computer-science.htm School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University], Edinburgh
:elected in December 2012 for the period from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2016
*Xiao Li ([mailto:xiao(dot)li(at)abdn.ac(dot)uk mail]) University of Aberdeen (student member, [mailto:siggen-webmaster(at)aclweb(dot)org webmaster])
:elected in December 2014 for the period from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2016

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

For questions regarding this website, please email: siggen-webmaster(at)aclweb(dot)org.

==[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/siggen.html Workshop Proceedings ] ==

==Archive==

==[[SIGGEN:_Constitution|Constitution]]==
== [[SIGGEN:_Who%27s_Who_in_NLG|Who's Who in NLG]]==
== [[SIGGEN:_What%27s_Where_in_NLG|What's Where in NLG]]==

== Resources ==
[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Portal]]

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==[[SIGGEN:_ACL_Reports|annual reports to the ACL]]==
==SIGGEN newsletters (1993–2005)==
==[[SIGGEN: Constitution| ‎SIGGEN constitution]] (including older versions)==
==[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/mailman/private/siggen/ mailing list archive](list members only)==

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==SIGGEN report 2009 (submitted 2 July 2009)==
ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009

SIGGEN continues to be a valued shared resource for an active and developing
community of researchers in natural language generation. Over the past year we
have achieved full compliance with ACL SIG requirements, held elections for
the board, updated our online presence, given endorsement to three related
workshops (with three more in the pipeline), and agreed a host for the next
INLG conference, in Ireland in 2010.

SIGGEN is now fully compliant with ACL SIG requirements, including (slightly
reluctantly) the assignment of officer roles (chair, secretary, treasurer,
webmaster) to various board members. The new arrangements were fully confirmed
in an election to the board at the end of 2008 - the next election is due at
the end of 2010. We would like to thank the outgoing board members, Charles
Callaway, David McDonald, Jette Viethen for their hard work on behalf of the
generation community, and welcome our new members, Cecile Paris,
Christian Pietsch and Sebastian Varges who join Roger Evans and Mike White on
the SIGGEN board.

SIGGEN organises the biennial INLG conferences, and this year was a rest year
after the very successful INLG 2008 at Salt Fork, Ohio, USA. Following an open
bidding process in early 2009, we were delighted to award organisation of INLG
2010 to Ielka van der Sluis (Trinity College, Dublin), John Kelleher and Brian
McNamee (Dublin Institute of Technology). INLG 2010 will be held in Trim,
County Meath, Ireland, 7-9 July 2010. In addition, SIGGEN offers
(non-financial) endorsement to workshops and activities related to generation,
and this year we were pleased to support the Third Workshop on Constraints in
Discourse (Potsdam, August 2008), a Workshop on the Question Generation Task
and Evaluation Challenge (Arlington, September 2008) and the 12th European
Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09) (Athens, April 2009).
Support for three further workshops in July and August 2009 (UCNLG+Sum, GIVE-2
and PRE-Cogsci 2009)is also already agreed, so we look forward to a busy year
for the NLG community.

In January 2009, Christian Pietsch took over the role of SIGGEN webmaster, and
gave our online presence a much needed review. As well as a general tidy-up of
the main pages, Christian undertook to transfer the SIGGEN wiki site,
previously hosted at Edinburgh by David Reitter, into the main [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Natural_Language_Generation_Portal ACL wiki],
and to re-establish clear email addresses for contacting the SIGGEN board
through the main ACL mail server (siggen-board (at) aclweb (dot) org etc.). We continue
to explore effective ways to support communication and access to resources for
the generation community.

SIGGEN's financial position is healthy. We last reported our account balance
(as a subaccount of the ACL account) in 2007 as $928 (all figures in US
dollars). We have since confirmed that INLG 2006 did not alter this balance
(as it ran as an ACL workshop, hence the risk and any surpus were assumed by
the main conference), and can now report that INLG 2008 made a surplus of
$2943, so that our current balance stands at $3871. Such a reserve is useful
to underwrite risk in free-standing events, and to allow for the possibility
of subsidising attendance to the INLG conference.

Roger Evans, Cecile Paris, Christian Pietsch, Sebastian Varges, Mike White

SIGGEN board
2 July 2009
==SIGGEN report 2008 (with minor corrections made by Roger Evans in July 2009)==
The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on
our web site, http://www.siggen.org. We organize international workshops every
other year. This is an 'on' year and we just finished our workshop at Salt
Fork, Ohio (linguistics.osu.edu/inlg2008/). Over 50 people attended, with many
new faces. We colocated with the 2008 referring expression generation
challenge: (http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08).

We lend our name in endorsing natural language generation (NLG) related events
when we are asked and the topic of the event seems appropriate to the NGL
community. This past year we sponsored [http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ivdsluis/mog2008/ the second workshop ]on Multimodal
Output Generation, MOG 2008, in Aberdeen, Scotland in April; and Using Corpora for NLG:
[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ Language Generation and Machine Translation].

This year we had a referendum to choose among several alternative for how to
bring our constitution in line with the ACL guidelines. We had about a 20%
response rate. The now compliant revised document is on our web page.

We have been accumulating and posting the papers of old workshops of any sort
that involve NLG on http://www.siggenarchive.org.uk/.
==SIGGEN report 2007==
ACL SIGGEN report 2006-2007

SIGGEN is in good health. SIGGEN members have organised a range of meetings,
with more in the pipeline - the SIGGEN board would particularly like to thank
all the organisers of these events for their hard work on behalf of the
community.

Events this year:

- INLG'06 (Sydney, August 2006 - part of ACL'06)

- Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (Aberdeen, January 07)

- Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in NLG (Arlington,
April 07)
- ENLG'07 (Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2007 - prior to ACL'07)

Future events:

- Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and Machine
Translation (Copenhagen, September 07 - part of MT Summit)

- INLG'08 (Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008)

There has been a lot of discussion and engagement in the SIGGEN community over
the last year, in particular associated with proposals to set up 'shared task'
evaluations which have become a feature in many other areas of NLP. This has
resulted in the establishment of the first Shared Task and Evaluation Campaign
for NLG, organised by Anja Belz (Brighton), Ehud Reiter and Albert Gatt
(Aberdeen) and Jette Viethen (Macquarie), taking place from May-September
2007.

Electronic communication has been quite modest. The SIGGEN website has been
well maintained, but the mailing list has seen fairly low volumes of traffic,
and the wiki has also not quite taken off yet, although it does have quite a
lot of useful content. The SIGGEN board aim to improve the SIG's electronic
profile over coming months, reviewing the role and delivery of the wiki, and
exploring the establishment of a repository for NLG papers not submittable to
the main ACL repository.

Elections for three committee posts were held in 2006, resulting in the
appointment of Michael White, Roger Evans and Jette Viethen (student
representative). The board thanks the outgoing members (Tilman Becker, Irene
Langkilde-Geary and David Reiter) for their work on behalf of SIGGEN. The
board has responded to the ACL request to improve compliance with SIG
guidelines, and are now fully compliant apart from board and election
structure - this requires consultation with the membership and possible
constitutional changes and will be pursued over coming months. A call for
proposals to host INLG'08 was issued, resulting in a successful bid from
Michael White and Crystal Nakatsu (Ohio State) and David McDonald (BBN) to
host in Ohio. Budgets and a contract with the venue have been negotiated. The
SIGGEN shadow account shows a balance of $928, but figures for INLG'06 have
not yet been taken into account.

Charles Callaway, Roger Evans, David McDonald, Jette Viethen, Michael White

SIGGEN board
==SIGGEN report 2006==
SIGGEN report 2005-2006

Conferences and Workshops:

- [http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W05/ ENLG 2005, Aberdeen]

- INLG 2006, Sydney

- [http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/Proceedings/index.html Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG]

- planned:

 - WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL OUTPUT GENERATION
to be held on January 25 and 26, 2007 at Aberdeen University

- ENLG 2007 (with ACL 2007, Prag early June)

Other activities:

- finalized INLG 2004 finances w/ profit

- newsletter, mailing list

- website with Wiki hosted at DFKI and UEDIN: www.siggen.org

upcoming elections

1) Tilman B. has finished his two years

2) Irene G. has finished the last year of Lyn Walker's term

3) David R. has finished as students get only a one-year term

4) David M. and Charles have one year left
==SIGGEN report 2005==
SIGGEN annual report for the period July 2004 to June 2005

SIGGEN, the special interest group in Natural Language Generation has started a
number of activities this year. Charles Callaway, David McDonald and Irene Geary
were elected as new regular members, David Reitter was elected as the student
member and Tilman Becker is staying on the board for another year.

The SIGGEN website is now located at
http://www.siggen.org
and it is hosted at DFKI. The content has been completely revised, including the
who-is-who. At the same time, the mailing-list which doubles as the membership
register has been validated and currently has 209 entries.
Also, a regular newsletter has been re-instated, the first issue May/June 2005 has just
been published.

SIGGEN is currently preparing for its main event, the bi-annual conference INLG.
A call for bids for INLG 2006 has been posted. In the last year, four events have
been officially sponsored by SIGGEN:

-EWNLG 2005, the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
8-10 August 2005, in Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

- 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
30th July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland (as part of IJCAI-2005)
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/CMNA5/ 

- Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
July 14, in Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

- Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation
at the Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 7, 2005
http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Tilman Becker,

 June 2005
==SIGGEN report 2003==
SIGGEN (Owen Rambow)

Owen Rambow, rambow AT cs.columbia.edu

SIGGEN report 2003

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year was INLG-02, which
SIGGEN sponsored and supported. It was held in Columbia University's Arden
House, near New York City, just before ACL (which took place in Philadelphia).
While submissions were as in previous years (with, as in previous years, an
acceptance rate of about 50%), attendance was below expectations (about 75
paying attendants, down from the record 100 at the workshop in 1998, with the
first conference in Israel in 2000 having a lower attendance, presumably due to
the location). An attempt to extend the audience by having special paper
tracks on both dialog and summarization were not successful, perhaps due to
lack of sufficient publicity outside of the standard NLG communities, and/or
lack of NLG-related work in these areas outside of the NLG community (which
would submit anyway). A further factor for low attendance may have been the
co-location with ACL, from which it was separated by the July 4 holiday.

It was decided that INLG04 will be organized by a group at the University of
Brighton and take place near Southampton, England.

There has been a request by Susan Haller to co-sponsor a special track on user
modeling and HCI approaches in natural language generation at FLAIRS.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: The web site needs to be updated.Helmut Horacek and
Tilman Becker have jointly taken over this task.

ELECTION: A contested election was held for new board members. Tilman Becker
(Saarbrücken) and Marilyn Walker (Sheffield) replaced Maria Milosavljevic and
Ehud Reiter as permanent board members, and Stephen Wan (Sydney) replaced
NoŽmie Elhadad as student member.
==SIGGEN report 2002==
Report on SIGGEN 01-02

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year is INLG-02,
which SIGGEN is sponsoring and supporting. It will be held in Columbia
University's Arden House, near New York City, just before ACL. For
more information see the conference web site at
http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/.

SIGGEN did not this year receive any requests to offer "support
in name" for NLG workshops. This is probably because there are no
specific NLG events this year other than INLG. This would be worrying
if it marks the start of a trend, but we hope it is just a one-off
blip, and that next year we will again see NLG workshops either stand-alone
or as part of other conferences.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: One technical change, which is that the
mailing list was moved to a new server. But in general both seem to
bw working well, and providing useful information to the community.

ELECTION: An election was held for new board members. Owen Rambow and
Helmut Horacek replaced Daniel Marcu and Keith vander Linden as
permanent board members, and Noemie Elhadad replaced Irene Langkilde
as student member.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: Comments were solicited from the community on
a formal constitution, and a draft constitution was posted on the
SIGGEN web page. We expect to discuss the constitution at INLG-02,
and then hold a formal acceptance vote.
==SIGGEN report 2001==
SIGGEN Report

Ehud Reiter

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: SIGGEN solicited bids for INLG-02.
One bid was received, from Kathy McKeown to hold INLG in Arden
House in New York State. The committee of previous INLG chairs
accepted this bid, after passing on some comments and suggestions
to Kathy. SIGGEN also offered "support in name" to the 2001
European NLG workshop (which is associated with ACL'01) and
to the International workshop on Computational Models of
Natural Language Argument (associated with ICCS'01). We also
decided we would like to keep statistical data (papers, attendees,
finances) on INLG conferences, and managed to retrospectively
gather such data for several past INLGs.

MAILING LIST: We had some perhaps inappropriate postings
on the SIGGEN mailing list (and some people shortly afterwards
removed themselves from the list), so we decided to make it moderated.
The moderators are two board members (Maria Milosavljevic
and Ehud Reiter). After moderation, the SIGGEN mailing list is
low-frequency (less than 10 messages per month) but high quality,
and very few people have unsubscribed from the list subsequently.

WEB SITE: Our Web site continues to be an up-to-date list of
conferences, announcements, jobs, books, and other information
useful to the NLG community.

ELECTION: As agreed in INLG-00, we are holding an election for
two (of the four) non-student board members, plus the student member;
two of the existing non-student members will stay on. A call
for candidates was sent out on 1 May 2001, and the election itself
will happen over the summer.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: We discussed the new ACL Guidelines for
SIG's, but felt that any changes to SIGGEN's structure should
be discussed and approved at an INLG business meeting, it
would be inappropriate for the current board to act on its own.
==SIGGEN report 1999==
IGGEN (Ehud Reiter, Daniel Marcu)

Report on SIGGEN 98-99

An election for SIGGEN board was held in October 1998, via email.
There were 6 candidates for regular board member, of which 4 were elected,
and 2 candidates for student board member, of which one was elected.
The new board members are Irene Langkilde (ISI, USA; student member),
Daniel Marcu (ISI, USA), Maria Milosavljevic (Dynamic Multimedia Pty Ltd,
Australia), Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen, UK), and Keith Vander Linden
(Calvin College, USA). None of the new members had previously served on
the SIGGEN board.

Activities after the election include

* a new and expanded Web site (http://www.dynamicmultimedia.com.au/siggen)

* a new-look email newsletter (back issues available on the Web page)

* an open discussion (again via the Web page) on the future of the International Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLGW) and other NLG events.

Future plans include creating an archive of NLG material, both technical
(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the
organisation of NLG workshops).
==SIGGEN report 1994==
SIGGEN

David McDonald

mcdonald AT cs.brandeis.edu

As in the past, SIGGEN's activities this past year have revolved around its
moderated bboard, the workshops of the membership, and initiatives being worked
on by its five person organizing committee.

Our bulletin board resides at "siggen (at) benus (dot) bgl (dot) ac (dot) il". Queries, announcements,
and other messages to the group can be sent there and will be collected and
forwarded to the whole group. 

Two workshops on language generation are being held this year. SIGGEN acts just
as a mediator in coordinating workshops, though this year many on the organizing
committee were also principals in these workshops' organizing committees. The
Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be / was held
this June in Kennebunkport Maine. [Details to go into Finite String report] An
invited workshop on generation will be held in Dagstuhl, Germany in July. 

We have started three new projects via SIGGEN and anticipate beginning a fourth.
We are trying to develop a comprehensive description of the field of natural
language generation in terms of a set of well defined and balanced subject
keywords with pointers back to the existing literature. An initial draft of this
list should be available in the early fall for community discussion. The aim is
to be inclusive and non-presumptive, so we are seeking creative ways to present
the keyword and cross-index set that will make this possible.

We are trying to make the unpublished papers of past generation workshops
available in some form over the net. The technical means for accommodating this
is still being worked out since our authors use a wide variety of editors and
formats and the search for a workable common denominator that is not too low is
still ongoing. 

We are also compiling a description of the steps that go into organizing our
workshops and compiling a set of materials that should be reusable so that the
next organizers will not have to start essentially from scratch as has been the
case in the past. 

Finally, with the evaluation of natural language systems having become so
important and with the long-standing difficulty of even defining what it would
mean to compare two generators (different assumptions about the boundaries of
the process, different representations of the source and different kinds and
amounts of information in it, differences in the task and setting, etc.), we
anticipate that we will also initiate a community discussion of evaluation via
our query board, and solicit careful descriptions of common technical problems,
linguistic or semantic phenomena that are problematic for generators (or
presumed to be simple), etc. The result would be a shared and evolving workbook
can be accumulated for researchers to consult. 
==SIGGEN report 1993==
SIGGEN (NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION)

Karen Kukich

18 June 1993

_NOTOC_===MEMBERSHIP===

SIGGEN membership, which currently stands at 170, is open to any member
of the ACL whose dues are paid for the current year. Anyone wishing to
become a SIGGEN member may contact David McDonald at
siggen AT cs.brandeis.edu or at the postal address below. The SIGGEN
mailing/membership list is available to SIGGEN members.

_NOTOC_===SIGGEN BOARD OF DIRECTORS===

The SIGGEN Board of Directors is in transition. Volunteer nominations
were solicited and an election was held in May and June of 93 to
replace two members of the SIGGEN committee with one new professional
member and one new student member. Karen Kukich and Marie Meteer
volunteered to vacate their positions to create new openings. The
results of the nominations and voting were as follows:

PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS:
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{|
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| Michael Elhadad || 23
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|Cecile Paris ||21
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|Koenraad Desmedt ||17
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GRAD STUDENT VOLUNTEERS:
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{|
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|Manfred Stede ||25
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|Nicolas Nicolov ||24
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|Massimo Fasciano ||9
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Thus, the new SIGGEN Board of Directors will be comprised of the following:

{|
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|David McDonald ||Johanna Moore
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|Content Technologies ||University of Pittsburgh
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|14 Brantwood Road ||520 LRDC
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|Arlington, MA 02174-8004 USA ||Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
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|Mcdonald AT cs.brandeis.edu ||jmoore AT cs.pitt.edu
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|Robert Dale ||Michael Elhadad
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|University of Edinburgh ||Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
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|Centre for Cognitive Science ||Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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|2 Buccleuch Place ||Beer Sheva 84105
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|Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland ||Israel
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|R.Dale AT edinburgh.ac.uk ||elhadad AT bengus.BGU.AC.IL
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|Manfred Stede
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|Department of Computer Science
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|University of Toronto
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|Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada
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|mstede AT cs.toronto.edu
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Board members are meeting at the ACL-93 meeting to plan for the
transistion.

_NOTOC_===SIGGEN QUERY BOARD===

The SIGGEN QueryBoard address will change. During 1993 the QueryBoard
served as a forum for a lengthy discussion of SIGGEN's raison d'etre
and its role in various activities. SIGGEN has sponsored various
workshops and mtgs in the past, but SIGGEN as not itself organized such
meetings. Some SIGGEN members feel strongly that SIGGEN itself should
NOT organize or govern such mtgs, tho it might help coordinate the
scheduling of such mtgs with other ACL functions. Other SIGGEN members
have suggested that some SIGGEN committee, perhaps analogous to the
AAAI secretariate, be set up, by election, to oversee the organization
of such mtgs. These issues will be addressed by the new SIGGEN board
members.

_NOTOC_===SIGGEN SPONSORED WORKSHOPS===

SIGGEN co-sponsored the following workshops during the past year:

1) The Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Burning Issues in Discourse,
Maratea, Italy, 13th - 15th April, 1993. A notice was posted to the
SIGGEN mailing list that proceedings are available for a fee of 8 US
dollars or 5 pounds sterling from:
Donia Scott,
Information Technology Research Institute,
University of Brighton,
Brighton Bn1 4AT,
England

2) The Fourth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation,
Pisa - Italy - April 28-30, 1993. An informal report on this
workshop written by Robin Fawcett and Koenraad de Smedt was posted
to the SIGGEN mailing list. 

3) The ACL Workshop on Intentionality & Discourse Structure, Columbus,
Ohio, June 21, 1993. Proceedings will be available from Owen Rambow,
rambow AT unagi.cis.upenn.edu.

_NOTOC_===SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL NLG WORKSHOP===

The International NLG Workshop has been the primary mtg for NLG
researchers. The SIGGEN community has been discussing various issues
concerning how this and related mtgs might be organized in the future.
A committee consisting of McDonald, de Smedt, Fawcett, Hovy, Meteer,
and Scott will be making a recommendation soon.

_NOTOC_===NLG BIBLIOGRAHY===

A new revised version (23rd February 1993) of Robert Dale's NLG
bibliography, in compressed PostScript form, is available by anonymous
ftp from scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Internet 129.215.144.3). This version
includes new material that has appeared within the last year, plus a
significant number of additions and corrections provided by members of
the NLG community.

_NOTOC_===13. SIGPHON (COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY)===

Steven Bird

10 June 93

The purpose of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational
Phonology is to (i) place computational phonology firmly on the
research agenda in computational linguistics, (ii) develop links
between researchers in computational phonology, and (iii) facilitate
the dissemination of research results and software.

Current membership stands at 110 people and members generally have an
active interest in the field rather than just being onlookers. Members
receive a bimonthly newsletter and have access to an FTP directory
which houses the membership directory, newsletter back-issues, research
papers and software. This year, the SIG proposed and was granted a
special issue of _Computational Linguistics_, and 22 papers are
currently under review. The SIG has recently been advertised in
_Phonology_ and in _Computer Speech and Language_, as we try to build
on our membership and promote dialogue between the speech and language
communities.

For further information, contact:

Steven Bird. /p>

University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science/p>

2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland, U.K./p>

Telephone: (031) 650-4421/4432. Fax: (031) 650-4587.

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==SIGGEN report 2009 (submitted 2 July 2009)==
ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009

SIGGEN continues to be a valued shared resource for an active and developing
community of researchers in natural language generation. Over the past year we
have achieved full compliance with ACL SIG requirements, held elections for
the board, updated our online presence, given endorsement to three related
workshops (with three more in the pipeline), and agreed a host for the next
INLG conference, in Ireland in 2010.

SIGGEN is now fully compliant with ACL SIG requirements, including (slightly
reluctantly) the assignment of officer roles (chair, secretary, treasurer,
webmaster) to various board members. The new arrangements were fully confirmed
in an election to the board at the end of 2008 - the next election is due at
the end of 2010. We would like to thank the outgoing board members, Charles
Callaway, David McDonald, Jette Viethen for their hard work on behalf of the
generation community, and welcome our new members, Cecile Paris,
Christian Pietsch and Sebastian Varges who join Roger Evans and Mike White on
the SIGGEN board.

SIGGEN organises the biennial INLG conferences, and this year was a rest year
after the very successful INLG 2008 at Salt Fork, Ohio, USA. Following an open
bidding process in early 2009, we were delighted to award organisation of INLG
2010 to Ielka van der Sluis (Trinity College, Dublin), John Kelleher and Brian
McNamee (Dublin Institute of Technology). INLG 2010 will be held in Trim,
County Meath, Ireland, 7-9 July 2010. In addition, SIGGEN offers
(non-financial) endorsement to workshops and activities related to generation,
and this year we were pleased to support the Third Workshop on Constraints in
Discourse (Potsdam, August 2008), a Workshop on the Question Generation Task
and Evaluation Challenge (Arlington, September 2008) and the 12th European
Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09) (Athens, April 2009).
Support for three further workshops in July and August 2009 (UCNLG+Sum, GIVE-2
and PRE-Cogsci 2009)is also already agreed, so we look forward to a busy year
for the NLG community.

In January 2009, Christian Pietsch took over the role of SIGGEN webmaster, and
gave our online presence a much needed review. As well as a general tidy-up of
the main pages, Christian undertook to transfer the SIGGEN wiki site,
previously hosted at Edinburgh by David Reitter, into the main [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Natural_Language_Generation_Portal ACL wiki],
and to re-establish clear email addresses for contacting the SIGGEN board
through the main ACL mail server (siggen-board (at) aclweb (dot) org etc.). We continue
to explore effective ways to support communication and access to resources for
the generation community.

SIGGEN's financial position is healthy. We last reported our account balance
(as a subaccount of the ACL account) in 2007 as $928 (all figures in US
dollars). We have since confirmed that INLG 2006 did not alter this balance
(as it ran as an ACL workshop, hence the risk and any surpus were assumed by
the main conference), and can now report that INLG 2008 made a surplus of
$2943, so that our current balance stands at $3871. Such a reserve is useful
to underwrite risk in free-standing events, and to allow for the possibility
of subsidising attendance to the INLG conference.

Roger Evans, Cecile Paris, Christian Pietsch, Sebastian Varges, Mike White

SIGGEN board
2 July 2009
==SIGGEN report 2008 (with minor corrections made by Roger Evans in July 2009)==
The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on
our web site, http://www.siggen.org. We organize international workshops every
other year. This is an 'on' year and we just finished our workshop at Salt
Fork, Ohio (linguistics.osu.edu/inlg2008/). Over 50 people attended, with many
new faces. We colocated with the 2008 referring expression generation
challenge: (http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08).

We lend our name in endorsing natural language generation (NLG) related events
when we are asked and the topic of the event seems appropriate to the NGL
community. This past year we sponsored [http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ivdsluis/mog2008/ the second workshop ]on Multimodal
Output Generation, MOG 2008, in Aberdeen, Scotland in April; and Using Corpora for NLG:
[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ Language Generation and Machine Translation].

This year we had a referendum to choose among several alternative for how to
bring our constitution in line with the ACL guidelines. We had about a 20%
response rate. The now compliant revised document is on our web page.

We have been accumulating and posting the papers of old workshops of any sort
that involve NLG on http://www.siggenarchive.org.uk/.
==SIGGEN report 2007==
ACL SIGGEN report 2006-2007

SIGGEN is in good health. SIGGEN members have organised a range of meetings,
with more in the pipeline - the SIGGEN board would particularly like to thank
all the organisers of these events for their hard work on behalf of the
community.

Events this year:

- INLG'06 (Sydney, August 2006 - part of ACL'06)

- Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (Aberdeen, January 07)

- Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in NLG (Arlington,
April 07)
- ENLG'07 (Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2007 - prior to ACL'07)

Future events:

- Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and Machine
Translation (Copenhagen, September 07 - part of MT Summit)

- INLG'08 (Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008)

There has been a lot of discussion and engagement in the SIGGEN community over
the last year, in particular associated with proposals to set up 'shared task'
evaluations which have become a feature in many other areas of NLP. This has
resulted in the establishment of the first Shared Task and Evaluation Campaign
for NLG, organised by Anja Belz (Brighton), Ehud Reiter and Albert Gatt
(Aberdeen) and Jette Viethen (Macquarie), taking place from May-September
2007.

Electronic communication has been quite modest. The SIGGEN website has been
well maintained, but the mailing list has seen fairly low volumes of traffic,
and the wiki has also not quite taken off yet, although it does have quite a
lot of useful content. The SIGGEN board aim to improve the SIG's electronic
profile over coming months, reviewing the role and delivery of the wiki, and
exploring the establishment of a repository for NLG papers not submittable to
the main ACL repository.

Elections for three committee posts were held in 2006, resulting in the
appointment of Michael White, Roger Evans and Jette Viethen (student
representative). The board thanks the outgoing members (Tilman Becker, Irene
Langkilde-Geary and David Reiter) for their work on behalf of SIGGEN. The
board has responded to the ACL request to improve compliance with SIG
guidelines, and are now fully compliant apart from board and election
structure - this requires consultation with the membership and possible
constitutional changes and will be pursued over coming months. A call for
proposals to host INLG'08 was issued, resulting in a successful bid from
Michael White and Crystal Nakatsu (Ohio State) and David McDonald (BBN) to
host in Ohio. Budgets and a contract with the venue have been negotiated. The
SIGGEN shadow account shows a balance of $928, but figures for INLG'06 have
not yet been taken into account.

Charles Callaway, Roger Evans, David McDonald, Jette Viethen, Michael White

SIGGEN board
==SIGGEN report 2006==
SIGGEN report 2005-2006

Conferences and Workshops:

- [http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W05/ ENLG 2005, Aberdeen]

- INLG 2006, Sydney

- [http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/Proceedings/index.html Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG]

- planned:

 - WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL OUTPUT GENERATION
to be held on January 25 and 26, 2007 at Aberdeen University

- ENLG 2007 (with ACL 2007, Prag early June)

Other activities:

- finalized INLG 2004 finances w/ profit

- newsletter, mailing list

- website with Wiki hosted at DFKI and UEDIN: www.siggen.org

upcoming elections

1) Tilman B. has finished his two years

2) Irene G. has finished the last year of Lyn Walker's term

3) David R. has finished as students get only a one-year term

4) David M. and Charles have one year left
==SIGGEN report 2005==
SIGGEN annual report for the period July 2004 to June 2005

SIGGEN, the special interest group in Natural Language Generation has started a
number of activities this year. Charles Callaway, David McDonald and Irene Geary
were elected as new regular members, David Reitter was elected as the student
member and Tilman Becker is staying on the board for another year.

The SIGGEN website is now located at
http://www.siggen.org
and it is hosted at DFKI. The content has been completely revised, including the
who-is-who. At the same time, the mailing-list which doubles as the membership
register has been validated and currently has 209 entries.
Also, a regular newsletter has been re-instated, the first issue May/June 2005 has just
been published.

SIGGEN is currently preparing for its main event, the bi-annual conference INLG.
A call for bids for INLG 2006 has been posted. In the last year, four events have
been officially sponsored by SIGGEN:

-EWNLG 2005, the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
8-10 August 2005, in Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

- 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
30th July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland (as part of IJCAI-2005)
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/CMNA5/ 

- Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
July 14, in Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

- Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation
at the Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 7, 2005
http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Tilman Becker,

 June 2005
==SIGGEN report 2003==
SIGGEN (Owen Rambow)

Owen Rambow, rambow AT cs.columbia.edu

SIGGEN report 2003

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year was INLG-02, which
SIGGEN sponsored and supported. It was held in Columbia University's Arden
House, near New York City, just before ACL (which took place in Philadelphia).
While submissions were as in previous years (with, as in previous years, an
acceptance rate of about 50%), attendance was below expectations (about 75
paying attendants, down from the record 100 at the workshop in 1998, with the
first conference in Israel in 2000 having a lower attendance, presumably due to
the location). An attempt to extend the audience by having special paper
tracks on both dialog and summarization were not successful, perhaps due to
lack of sufficient publicity outside of the standard NLG communities, and/or
lack of NLG-related work in these areas outside of the NLG community (which
would submit anyway). A further factor for low attendance may have been the
co-location with ACL, from which it was separated by the July 4 holiday.

It was decided that INLG04 will be organized by a group at the University of
Brighton and take place near Southampton, England.

There has been a request by Susan Haller to co-sponsor a special track on user
modeling and HCI approaches in natural language generation at FLAIRS.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: The web site needs to be updated.Helmut Horacek and
Tilman Becker have jointly taken over this task.

ELECTION: A contested election was held for new board members. Tilman Becker
(Saarbrücken) and Marilyn Walker (Sheffield) replaced Maria Milosavljevic and
Ehud Reiter as permanent board members, and Stephen Wan (Sydney) replaced
NoŽmie Elhadad as student member.
==SIGGEN report 2002==
Report on SIGGEN 01-02

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: The major NLG event of the year is INLG-02,
which SIGGEN is sponsoring and supporting. It will be held in Columbia
University's Arden House, near New York City, just before ACL. For
more information see the conference web site at
http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/.

SIGGEN did not this year receive any requests to offer "support
in name" for NLG workshops. This is probably because there are no
specific NLG events this year other than INLG. This would be worrying
if it marks the start of a trend, but we hope it is just a one-off
blip, and that next year we will again see NLG workshops either stand-alone
or as part of other conferences.

MAILING LIST AND WEB SITE: One technical change, which is that the
mailing list was moved to a new server. But in general both seem to
bw working well, and providing useful information to the community.

ELECTION: An election was held for new board members. Owen Rambow and
Helmut Horacek replaced Daniel Marcu and Keith vander Linden as
permanent board members, and Noemie Elhadad replaced Irene Langkilde
as student member.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: Comments were solicited from the community on
a formal constitution, and a draft constitution was posted on the
SIGGEN web page. We expect to discuss the constitution at INLG-02,
and then hold a formal acceptance vote.
==SIGGEN report 2001==
SIGGEN Report

Ehud Reiter

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: SIGGEN solicited bids for INLG-02.
One bid was received, from Kathy McKeown to hold INLG in Arden
House in New York State. The committee of previous INLG chairs
accepted this bid, after passing on some comments and suggestions
to Kathy. SIGGEN also offered "support in name" to the 2001
European NLG workshop (which is associated with ACL'01) and
to the International workshop on Computational Models of
Natural Language Argument (associated with ICCS'01). We also
decided we would like to keep statistical data (papers, attendees,
finances) on INLG conferences, and managed to retrospectively
gather such data for several past INLGs.

MAILING LIST: We had some perhaps inappropriate postings
on the SIGGEN mailing list (and some people shortly afterwards
removed themselves from the list), so we decided to make it moderated.
The moderators are two board members (Maria Milosavljevic
and Ehud Reiter). After moderation, the SIGGEN mailing list is
low-frequency (less than 10 messages per month) but high quality,
and very few people have unsubscribed from the list subsequently.

WEB SITE: Our Web site continues to be an up-to-date list of
conferences, announcements, jobs, books, and other information
useful to the NLG community.

ELECTION: As agreed in INLG-00, we are holding an election for
two (of the four) non-student board members, plus the student member;
two of the existing non-student members will stay on. A call
for candidates was sent out on 1 May 2001, and the election itself
will happen over the summer.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: We discussed the new ACL Guidelines for
SIG's, but felt that any changes to SIGGEN's structure should
be discussed and approved at an INLG business meeting, it
would be inappropriate for the current board to act on its own.
==SIGGEN report 1999==
IGGEN (Ehud Reiter, Daniel Marcu)

Report on SIGGEN 98-99

An election for SIGGEN board was held in October 1998, via email.
There were 6 candidates for regular board member, of which 4 were elected,
and 2 candidates for student board member, of which one was elected.
The new board members are Irene Langkilde (ISI, USA; student member),
Daniel Marcu (ISI, USA), Maria Milosavljevic (Dynamic Multimedia Pty Ltd,
Australia), Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen, UK), and Keith Vander Linden
(Calvin College, USA). None of the new members had previously served on
the SIGGEN board.

Activities after the election include

* a new and expanded Web site (http://www.dynamicmultimedia.com.au/siggen)

* a new-look email newsletter (back issues available on the Web page)

* an open discussion (again via the Web page) on the future of the International Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLGW) and other NLG events.

Future plans include creating an archive of NLG material, both technical
(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the
organisation of NLG workshops).
==SIGGEN report 1994==
SIGGEN

David McDonald

mcdonald AT cs.brandeis.edu

As in the past, SIGGEN's activities this past year have revolved around its
moderated bboard, the workshops of the membership, and initiatives being worked
on by its five person organizing committee.

Our bulletin board resides at "siggen (at) benus (dot) bgl (dot) ac (dot) il". Queries, announcements,
and other messages to the group can be sent there and will be collected and
forwarded to the whole group. 

Two workshops on language generation are being held this year. SIGGEN acts just
as a mediator in coordinating workshops, though this year many on the organizing
committee were also principals in these workshops' organizing committees. The
Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be / was held
this June in Kennebunkport Maine. [Details to go into Finite String report] An
invited workshop on generation will be held in Dagstuhl, Germany in July. 

We have started three new projects via SIGGEN and anticipate beginning a fourth.
We are trying to develop a comprehensive description of the field of natural
language generation in terms of a set of well defined and balanced subject
keywords with pointers back to the existing literature. An initial draft of this
list should be available in the early fall for community discussion. The aim is
to be inclusive and non-presumptive, so we are seeking creative ways to present
the keyword and cross-index set that will make this possible.

We are trying to make the unpublished papers of past generation workshops
available in some form over the net. The technical means for accommodating this
is still being worked out since our authors use a wide variety of editors and
formats and the search for a workable common denominator that is not too low is
still ongoing. 

We are also compiling a description of the steps that go into organizing our
workshops and compiling a set of materials that should be reusable so that the
next organizers will not have to start essentially from scratch as has been the
case in the past. 

Finally, with the evaluation of natural language systems having become so
important and with the long-standing difficulty of even defining what it would
mean to compare two generators (different assumptions about the boundaries of
the process, different representations of the source and different kinds and
amounts of information in it, differences in the task and setting, etc.), we
anticipate that we will also initiate a community discussion of evaluation via
our query board, and solicit careful descriptions of common technical problems,
linguistic or semantic phenomena that are problematic for generators (or
presumed to be simple), etc. The result would be a shared and evolving workbook
can be accumulated for researchers to consult. 
==SIGGEN report 1993==

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The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) shall be to promote interest in Natural Language Generation; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in Natural Language Generation with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Natural Language Generation; and to sponsor meetings and workshops in Natural Language Generation that appear to be timely and worthwhile, operating within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.
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There are also some supporting documents:
<li>[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG guidelines]</li>
<li>[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_constitution_template.txt Template Constitution]</li>
<li>[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html ACL financial policy on SIGs]</li>
<li>[http://www.aclweb.org/archive/acldocs.html ACL constitutions]</li>

==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 3 (10-Dec-2007)==
I. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) shall be to promote interest in Natural Language Generation; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in Natural Language Generation with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Natural Language Generation; and to sponsor meetings and workshops in Natural Language Generation that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

II. ELECTED OFFICERS

The elected officers of SIGGEN shall consist of four non-student Board members and one student Board member. These shall be members in good standing of the ACL.

Non-student board members will serve for four years, and student members will serve for two years.

The elected officers will assign named posts by agreement among themselves. The named posts and corresponding duties will be:

<li>Chair - To have ultimate executive authority over actions and activities of SIGGEN, and to be responsible for ensuring SIGGEN functions as it should, in accordance with this constution.</li>
<li>Secretary - To be responsible for record keeping and communication with the membership and the Executive Committee of the ACL, and to make an annual report on SIGGEN activities, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.</li>
<li>Treasurer - To be responsible for overseeing the finances of SIGGEN and to make an anuual financial report on SIGGEN finances to the membership and the Executive Committeee of the ACL.</li>
<li>Webmaster - To be responsible for all aspects of SIGGEN's electronic presence.</li>
The post of chair and treasurer will normally be held by non-student members of the board.

III. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

All officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. This vote shall take place at least 4 weeks before the expiration of the terms of the officers to be elected, with at least 4 weeks' notice of nominations to SIG members. Elections will be electronic, using either electronic mail or the Web.

Elections shall take place every two years. Non-student members who have only served for two years automatically continue as board members, and are not included in the election.

Terms of office will normally be aligned to the calendar year. If an officer leaves their post prematurely, a replacement may be elected to complete their term of office.

Normally the periods of service of the non-student board members are staggered, with two board members who have served for four years retiring at every election and being replaced by new board members, and two board members who have served for two years continuing as board members.

The student board member is elected at every election.

To be eligible to stand for election as a student board member, candidates should be expected to complete at least one year of their term of office before their Ph.D. defense would reasonably be scheduled.

IV. CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION

Changes to the SIGGEN constitution may be proposed by the SIGGEN board or by ten SIGGEN members. They will first be posted on the SIGGEN Web page, with SIGGEN members invited to comment on the changes. Afterwards the proposed change will be circulated to the SIGGEN membership, and a ratification vote will be held. The amendment will be adopted if a majority of those voting approve it.

The ACL Executive Committee may veto proposed constitution changes if they are incompatible with the ACL Constitution or SIG guidelines.

==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 2 (27-May-2002)==
I. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) shall be to promote interest in Natural Language Generation; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in Natural Language Generation with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Natural Language Generation; and to sponsor meetings and workshops in Natural Language Generation that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

II. ELECTED OFFICERS

The elected officers of SIGGEN shall consist of four non-student Board members and one student Board member. These shall be members in good standing of the ACL.

Non-student board members will serve for four years, and student members will serve for two years.

The duties of the SIGGEN board include
(1) To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of SIGGEN.
(2) To prepare a written report on the activities of SIGGEN for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
(3) To designate a Liaison Representative for SIGGEN, who shall be primarily responsible for communication with members of SIGGEN, answering inquiries about SIGGEN, and communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL.
(4) To maintain a membership roster of SIGGEN.
(5) To be responsible for any moneys awarded to SIGGEN by the ACL; to collect and manage any dues that may be required by the organization; and to present a written annual report on SIGGEN finances to the Executive Committee of the ACL.

III. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

All officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. This vote shall take place at least 4 weeks before the expiration of the terms of the officers to be elected, with at least 4 weeks' notice of nominations to SIG members. Elections will be electronic, using either electronic mail or the Web.

Elections shall take place every two years. Non-student members who have only served for two years automatically continue as board members, and are not included in the election.

Normally the periods of service of the non-student board members are staggered, with two board members who have served for four years retiring at every election and being replaced by new board members, and two board members who have served for two years continuing as board members. The student board member is elected at every election.

IV. CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION

Changes to the SIGGEN constitution may be proposed by the SIGGEN board or by ten SIGGEN members. They will first be posted on the SIGGEN Web page, with SIGGEN members invited to comment on the changes. Afterwards the proposed change will be circulated to the SIGGEN membership, and a ratification vote will be held. The amendment will be adopted if a majority of those voting approve it.

The ACL Executive Committee may veto proposed constitution changes if they are incompatible with the ACL Constitution or SIG guidelines.

==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 1 (11-December-2001)==
From the perspective of SIGGEN, we believe the most important issues are:
1) The structure of the SIGGEN board and how they are elected.
2) Whether INLG financing is handled through SIGGEN and ACL
3) "Support in name" for NLG workshops
4) Changes to the constitution

We welcome comments from SIGGEN members about these issues, and indeed any other issues related to a SIGGEN constitution.

(1) SIGGEN BOARD
Board composition
SIGGEN practice: 1 student member and 4 non-student members. The members decide among themselves how to divide up responsibilities.

ACL recommendation:Named officers elected as such, including a Chair and a Secretary.
Term of office
SIGGEN practice:2 years for student member, 4 years for non-student member

ACL recommendation: 2 years maximum for everyone
Election procedure
SIGGEN practice: Held every two years, by email. All SIGGEN members (which in practice is interpreted as all members of the SIGGEN mailing list) are eligible to vote. Each election is for the student member and 2 of the 4 non-student members (so, non-student members serve staggered 4-year terms).

ACL recommendation: hold every 2 years

Note: SIGGEN has a somewhat vague rule that when possible the board should contain one member from each of the three ACL regions (Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific). This has not been spelled out in detail, but presumably means that a candidate from an unrepresented region would "win" an election against a candidate from an already-represented region who got more votes.

(2) INLG Financing

SIGGEN practice: SIGGEN has no involvement in the financial side of the INLG series. Profits from one INLG are generally passed on to the next INLG, but this is done informally from organiser to organiser.

ACL: ACL has raised the possibility of the funds (accumulated profits) from INLG being placed in a special "shadow account" for SIGGEN which would be held by ACL. This has the advantage of regularising INLG finances, and also giving SIGGEN access to funds (eg, to purchase a URL). However, it has the disadvantage that ACL would insist that INLG attendees be ACL members if ACL was involved in any way (including shadow accounts) with the financing of INLG.

(3) Support in name for NLG workshops

SIGGEN practice: The SIGGEN board occasionally gives "support in name" to worthy NLG workshops. This can be used by workshop organisers when advertising their workshop or when applying to funding bodies for financial support.

ACL: ACL says that ACL SIG's cannot give any kind of support to non-ACL events unless this is approved by the ACL executive,

(4) Changes to constitution

SIGGEN practice: Changes to SIGGEN are discussed and voted on at SIGGEN business meetings during INLG.

ACL: ACL has no recommendations for this, but ACL itself has moved to a system where constitution changes are announced to the membership and voted on by email.

Our Current Position

The current SIGGEN board's position on the above issues is

SIGGEN BOARD: The board has no strong opinion on this, but it does tend to the opinion that the current structure seems to work reasonably well.

INLG Financing: This was discussed by the SIGGEN community in 1999, and the community preferred not to involve ACL because it felt that we should encourage people from outside NLP to attend INLG, and that requiring ACL membership might discourage such people. The board suspects that this is still the opinion of the community.

SUPPORT IN NAME: The board believes that getting permission from ACL is OK provided that such permission is granted quickly and without hassle for respectable workshops.

CONSTITUTION CHANGE: The board does not have any opinion on this.

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==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 3 (10-Dec-2007)==
I. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) shall be to promote interest in Natural Language Generation; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in Natural Language Generation with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Natural Language Generation; and to sponsor meetings and workshops in Natural Language Generation that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

II. ELECTED OFFICERS

The elected officers of SIGGEN shall consist of four non-student Board members and one student Board member. These shall be members in good standing of the ACL.

Non-student board members will serve for four years, and student members will serve for two years.

The elected officers will assign named posts by agreement among themselves. The named posts and corresponding duties will be:

<li>Chair - To have ultimate executive authority over actions and activities of SIGGEN, and to be responsible for ensuring SIGGEN functions as it should, in accordance with this constution.</li>
<li>Secretary - To be responsible for record keeping and communication with the membership and the Executive Committee of the ACL, and to make an annual report on SIGGEN activities, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.</li>
<li>Treasurer - To be responsible for overseeing the finances of SIGGEN and to make an anuual financial report on SIGGEN finances to the membership and the Executive Committeee of the ACL.</li>
<li>Webmaster - To be responsible for all aspects of SIGGEN's electronic presence.</li>
The post of chair and treasurer will normally be held by non-student members of the board.

III. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

All officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. This vote shall take place at least 4 weeks before the expiration of the terms of the officers to be elected, with at least 4 weeks' notice of nominations to SIG members. Elections will be electronic, using either electronic mail or the Web.

Elections shall take place every two years. Non-student members who have only served for two years automatically continue as board members, and are not included in the election.

Terms of office will normally be aligned to the calendar year. If an officer leaves their post prematurely, a replacement may be elected to complete their term of office.

Normally the periods of service of the non-student board members are staggered, with two board members who have served for four years retiring at every election and being replaced by new board members, and two board members who have served for two years continuing as board members.

The student board member is elected at every election.

To be eligible to stand for election as a student board member, candidates should be expected to complete at least one year of their term of office before their Ph.D. defense would reasonably be scheduled.

IV. CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION

Changes to the SIGGEN constitution may be proposed by the SIGGEN board or by ten SIGGEN members. They will first be posted on the SIGGEN Web page, with SIGGEN members invited to comment on the changes. Afterwards the proposed change will be circulated to the SIGGEN membership, and a ratification vote will be held. The amendment will be adopted if a majority of those voting approve it.

The ACL Executive Committee may veto proposed constitution changes if they are incompatible with the ACL Constitution or SIG guidelines.

==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 2 (27-May-2002)==
I. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) shall be to promote interest in Natural Language Generation; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in Natural Language Generation with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Natural Language Generation; and to sponsor meetings and workshops in Natural Language Generation that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

II. ELECTED OFFICERS

The elected officers of SIGGEN shall consist of four non-student Board members and one student Board member. These shall be members in good standing of the ACL.

Non-student board members will serve for four years, and student members will serve for two years.

The duties of the SIGGEN board include
(1) To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of SIGGEN.
(2) To prepare a written report on the activities of SIGGEN for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
(3) To designate a Liaison Representative for SIGGEN, who shall be primarily responsible for communication with members of SIGGEN, answering inquiries about SIGGEN, and communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL.
(4) To maintain a membership roster of SIGGEN.
(5) To be responsible for any moneys awarded to SIGGEN by the ACL; to collect and manage any dues that may be required by the organization; and to present a written annual report on SIGGEN finances to the Executive Committee of the ACL.

III. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

All officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. This vote shall take place at least 4 weeks before the expiration of the terms of the officers to be elected, with at least 4 weeks' notice of nominations to SIG members. Elections will be electronic, using either electronic mail or the Web.

Elections shall take place every two years. Non-student members who have only served for two years automatically continue as board members, and are not included in the election.

Normally the periods of service of the non-student board members are staggered, with two board members who have served for four years retiring at every election and being replaced by new board members, and two board members who have served for two years continuing as board members. The student board member is elected at every election.

IV. CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION

Changes to the SIGGEN constitution may be proposed by the SIGGEN board or by ten SIGGEN members. They will first be posted on the SIGGEN Web page, with SIGGEN members invited to comment on the changes. Afterwards the proposed change will be circulated to the SIGGEN membership, and a ratification vote will be held. The amendment will be adopted if a majority of those voting approve it.

The ACL Executive Committee may veto proposed constitution changes if they are incompatible with the ACL Constitution or SIG guidelines.

==CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Version 1 (11-December-2001)==
From the perspective of SIGGEN, we believe the most important issues are:
1) The structure of the SIGGEN board and how they are elected.
2) Whether INLG financing is handled through SIGGEN and ACL
3) "Support in name" for NLG workshops
4) Changes to the constitution

We welcome comments from SIGGEN members about these issues, and indeed any other issues related to a SIGGEN constitution.

(1) SIGGEN BOARD

Board composition
SIGGEN practice: 1 student member and 4 non-student members. The members decide among themselves how to divide up responsibilities.
ACL recommendation: Named officers elected as such, including a Chair and a Secretary.

Term of office
SIGGEN practice: 2 years for student member, 4 years for non-student member
ACL recommendation: 2 years maximum for everyone

Election procedure
SIGGEN practice: Held every two years, by email. All SIGGEN members (which in practice is interpreted as all members of the SIGGEN mailing list) are eligible to vote. Each election is for the student member and 2 of the 4 non-student members (so, non-student members serve staggered 4-year terms).
ACL recommendation: hold every 2 years

Note: SIGGEN has a somewhat vague rule that when possible the board should contain one member from each of the three ACL regions (Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific). This has not been spelled out in detail, but presumably means that a candidate from an unrepresented region would "win" an election against a candidate from an already-represented region who got more votes.

(2) INLG Financing

SIGGEN practice: SIGGEN has no involvement in the financial side of the INLG series. Profits from one INLG are generally passed on to the next INLG, but this is done informally from organiser to organiser.
ACL: ACL has raised the possibility of the funds (accumulated profits) from INLG being placed in a special "shadow account" for SIGGEN which would be held by ACL. This has the advantage of regularising INLG finances, and also giving SIGGEN access to funds (eg, to purchase a URL). However, it has the disadvantage that ACL would insist that INLG attendees be ACL members if ACL was involved in any way (including shadow accounts) with the financing of INLG.

(3) Support in name for NLG workshops

SIGGEN practice: The SIGGEN board occasionally gives "support in name" to worthy NLG workshops. This can be used by workshop organisers when advertising their workshop or when applying to funding bodies for financial support.
ACL: ACL says that ACL SIG's cannot give any kind of support to non-ACL events unless this is approved by the ACL executive,

(4) Changes to constitution

SIGGEN practice: Changes to SIGGEN are discussed and voted on at SIGGEN business meetings during INLG.
ACL: ACL has no recommendations for this, but ACL itself has moved to a system where constitution changes are announced to the membership and voted on by email.

Our Current Position

The current SIGGEN board's position on the above issues is
SIGGEN BOARD: The board has no strong opinion on this, but it does tend to the opinion that the current structure seems to work reasonably well.
INLG Financing: This was discussed by the SIGGEN community in 1999, and the community preferred not to involve ACL because it felt that we should encourage people from outside NLP to attend INLG, and that requiring ACL membership might discourage such people. The board suspects that this is still the opinion of the community.
SUPPORT IN NAME: The board believes that getting permission from ACL is OK provided that such permission is granted quickly and without hassle for respectable workshops.
CONSTITUTION CHANGE: The board does not have any opinion on this.

SIGGEN: What's Where in NLG

2015-10-29T14:50:59Z

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===A===
*[http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG]
**[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer (Australia)
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
*[http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
**[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff
**[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent]
*[http://www.cs.aueb.gr Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
**[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos]
===B===
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer]
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
**[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier]
**[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch]
*[http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
**[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary]
===C===
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
**[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau]
**[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris]
*Calvin College, USA
**[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden]
*[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology
*[http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
**[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge]
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown]
**[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau]
**[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow]
*[http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
**[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim]
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
**[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton]
===D===
*[http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann]
*[http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
**[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich]
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
**[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher]
===E===
*[http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
**[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak]
===F===
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
**[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin]
*[http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
**[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro]
*France Telecom, France
**[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget]
===G===
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
**[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble]
*Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
**[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal]
*Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
**[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS]
===H===
*[http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
**[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz]
*[http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
**[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia]
**[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab]
===I===
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue]
**[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw]
*[http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
**[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll]
*[http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock]
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
**[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy]
**[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu]
*[http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
**[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani]
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
**[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury]
*[http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
**[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn]
*[http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
**[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi]
**[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad]
*Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR
**[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory]
*Intel
**[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran]
===J===
*[http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ Joint Research Center], European Commission
**[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer
===L===
*[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
**[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock] ([mailto:michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr email])
*La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
**[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science]
===M===
*Macquarie University], Australia
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology]
**[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology]
*[http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
**[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen]
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
**[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS]
*[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/ Microsoft Research]
**[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
**[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say]
*Monash University, Australia
**[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering]
===N===
*[http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
**[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
**[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders]
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
**[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan]
*[http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications]
**Ronald Kaplan, Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
**[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester]
**[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor
*[http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
**[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman]
===O===
*[http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University (OSU)], Columbus, OH, USA
**[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://ling.ohio-state.edu Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Deptartment of Linguistics]
*Open University, England, UK
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
*Otago University, New Zealand
**[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science]
===Q===
*[http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard]
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison]
===R===
*Rutgers University, USA
**[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science]
===S===
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler]
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek]
**[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI]
*[http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
**[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds]
*[http://www.sift.net/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
**[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald]
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
**[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt]
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
**[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH
===T===
*[http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
**[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg]
*[http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
**[mailto:blake.howald@thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist
**[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager
*[http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher
===U===
*[http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás]
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás]
**[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid]
*[http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
**[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], Dipartimento di Informatica
*Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
**[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha]
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction]
*[http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
**[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey]
*Universite Paris 7, France
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
*[http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
**[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers]
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], Scotland
**[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student
**[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han]
**[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter]
*[http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André]
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
**[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman]
*University of Brighton, UK
**[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)]
**[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG]
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
**[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini]
*[http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
*University of Cambridge], UK
**[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab]
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey]
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy]
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
**[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed]
*University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
**[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences]
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence]
**[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics]
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
**[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou]
**[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
**[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls]
*[http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
**[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student
**[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis]
*[http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
**[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel]
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
**[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock]
*[http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio]
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu]
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
**[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali]
*University of Liverpool, UK
**[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
**[mailto:bikash.gyawali@loria.fr Bikash Gyawali]
**[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan]
*[http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
**[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt]
*University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
**[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information]
*University of New York, Queens College], USA
**[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth]
*University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
**[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences]
*University of Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program]
**[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman]
*University of Potsdam, Germany
**[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs Department of Computer Science]
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks]
*[http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
**[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies]
*[http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
**[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin]
*University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
**[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme]
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill]
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva]
**[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott]
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
**[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff]
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
**[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni]
*[http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
**[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal]
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
**[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward]
*[http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
**[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer]
**[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi]
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
**[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst]
*University of Trento], Trento, Italy
**[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology]
*[http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
**[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger]
*University of Twente, The Netherlands
**[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction]
*[http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
**[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney]
*University of Waterloo, Canada
**[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science]
*University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
**[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
**[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng]
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller]
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul]
*[http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
**[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis]
*Université de Montpellier 2, France
**[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
===V===
===W===
*Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
**[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell]
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SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG

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===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
*[mailto:cbarros-@-dlsi.ua.es Cristina Barros], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali-@-loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald-@-thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA
===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~elloret/ Elena Lloret],[http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
*[mailto:mvicente-@-dlsi.ua.es Marta Vicente], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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SIGGEN: What's Where in NLG

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way for updating profiles.
===A===
*[http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG]
**[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer (Australia)
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
*[http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
**[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff
**[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent]
*[http://www.cs.aueb.gr Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
**[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos]
===B===
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer]
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
**[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier]
**[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch]
*[http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
**[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary]
===C===
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
**[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau]
**[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris]
*Calvin College, USA
**[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden]
*[http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology
*[http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
**[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge]
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown]
**[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau]
**[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow]
*[http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
**[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim]
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
**[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton]
===D===
*[http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann]
*[http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
**[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich]
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
**[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher]
===E===
*[http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
**[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak]
===F===
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
**[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin]
*[http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
**[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro]
*France Telecom, France
**[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget]
===G===
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
**[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble]
*Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
**[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal]
*Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
**[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS]
===H===
*[http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
**[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz]
*[http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
**[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia]
**[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab]
===I===
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue]
**[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov]
**[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw]
*[http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
**[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll]
*[http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta]
**[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock]
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
**[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy]
**[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu]
*[http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
**[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani]
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
**[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury]
*[http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
**[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn]
*[http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
**[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi]
**[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad]
*Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR
**[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory]
*Intel
**[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran]
===J===
*[http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ Joint Research Center], European Commission
**[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer
===L===
*[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
**[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock] ([mailto:michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr email])
*La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
**[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science]
===M===
*Macquarie University], Australia
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing]
**[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology]
**[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology]
*[http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
**[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen]
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
**[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS]
*[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/ Microsoft Research]
**[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
**[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say]
*Monash University, Australia
**[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering]
===N===
*[http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
**[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
**[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders]
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
**[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan]
*[http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications]
**Ronald Kaplan, Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
**[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester]
**[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor
*[http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
**[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman]
===O===
*[http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University (OSU)], Columbus, OH, USA
**[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://ling.ohio-state.edu Department of Linguistics]
**[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Deptartment of Linguistics]
*Open University, England, UK
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
**[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group]
*Otago University, New Zealand
**[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science]
===Q===
*[http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard]
**[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison]
===R===
*Rutgers University, USA
**[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science]
===S===
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler]
**[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek]
**[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová]
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI]
*[http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
**[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds]
*[http://www.sift.net/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
**[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald]
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
**[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt]
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
**[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH
===T===
*[http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
**[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg]
*[http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
**[mailto:blake.howald@thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist
**[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager
*[http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher
===U===
*[http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás]
**[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás]
**[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid]
*[http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
**[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], Dipartimento di Informatica
*Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
**[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha]
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups
**[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups
**[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction]
*[http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
**[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey]
*Universite Paris 7, France
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
**[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique
*[http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
**[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers]
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], Scotland
**[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student
**[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han]
**[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant
**[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter]
**[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada]
**[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner]
**[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter]
*[http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
**[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André]
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
**[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman]
*University of Brighton, UK
**[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)]
**[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG]
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
**[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini]
*[http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
**[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab]
*University of Cambridge], UK
**[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab]
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker]
**[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey]
**[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy]
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
**[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed]
*University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
**[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences]
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence]
**[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics]
**[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics]
**[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics]
**[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre]
**[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics]
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
**[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou]
**[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
**[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls]
*[http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
**[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student
**[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis]
*[http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
**[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel]
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
**[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock]
*[http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio]
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
**[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu]
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
**[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali]
*University of Liverpool, UK
**[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science]
*[http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
**[mailto:bikash.gyawali@loria.fr Bikash Gyawali]
**[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan]
*[http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
**[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt]
*University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
**[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information]
*University of New York, Queens College], USA
**[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth]
*University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
**[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences]
*University of Pittsburgh, USA
**[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program]
**[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman]
*University of Potsdam, Germany
**[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs Department of Computer Science]
**[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks]
*[http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
**[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies]
*[http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
**[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin]
*University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
**[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme]
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill]
**[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva]
**[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott]
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
**[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff]
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
**[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni]
*[http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
**[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal]
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
**[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward]
*[http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
**[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer]
**[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi]
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
**[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst]
*University of Trento], Trento, Italy
**[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology]
*[http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
**[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger]
*University of Twente, The Netherlands
**[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction]
*[http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
**[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney]
*University of Waterloo, Canada
**[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science]
*University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
**[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
**[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng]
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller]
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
**[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul]
*[http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
**[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis]
*Université de Montpellier 2, France
**[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM]
*[http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
**[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)]
===w===
*Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
**[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell]
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===MISCELLANEOUS===
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*[http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=People Who's who in NLP/CL in the ACL Wiki]

SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG

2015-10-28T15:17:15Z

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This page is intended to be a list of people working in the field of natural language generation. We welcome others to add themselves to this list by sending as email: '''siggen-webmaster (at) aclweb (dot) org'''.
===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
*[mailto:cbarros-@-dlsi.ua.es Cristina Barros], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali-@-loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald-@-thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA
===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li-@-abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~elloret/ Elena Lloret],[http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
*[mailto:mvicente-@-dlsi.ua.es Marta Vicente], [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/gplsi11/ GPLSI research group / University of Alicante], Spain
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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===A===
*[https://sites.google.com/site/manexagirrezabal/ Manex Agirrezabal], [http://www.ehu.es University of the Basque Country], Donostia, Spain
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ejanal Jan Alexandersson], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eandre Elisabeth André], [http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/team_details.php?id=2 University of Augsburg], Germany
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Ion Androutsopoulos], [http://www.cs.aueb.gr/ Athens University of Economics and Business], Greece
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Eappelt/ Doug Appelt], [http://www.ai.sri.com/ SRI International], USA
===B===
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/basile Valerio Basile], PhD Student, [http://www.rug.nl University of Groningen], Netherlands
*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/%7Ebateman John Bateman], [http://www.uni-bremen.de/ University of Bremen], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebecker Tilman Becker], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
*[http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Anja.Belz/ Anja Belz], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/ School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM)], University of Brighton, UK
*[http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~bohnetbd/ Bernd Bohnet], [http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/eng/ Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme], University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekalina/ Kalina Bontcheva], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Univ. of Sheffield], UK
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=6 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha], [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Eboufaden Narjes Boufaden], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/ernst.buchberger Ernst Buchberger], [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Section for Artificial Intelligence], [http://cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/en/ CeMSIIS], [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/homepage/en/ Medical University of Vienna], Austria
*[http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/ Hendrik Buschmeier], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ebusemann Stephan Busemann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Saarbrücken, Germany
===C===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/416 Lynne Cahill], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], UK
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/ Charles Callaway], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ University of Edinburgh], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/profile.jsp?id=carenini Giuseppe Carenini], [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia], Canada
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ecarberry Sandra Carberry], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ Univ. of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/gcasamayor Gerard Casamayor], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/%7Echali/ Yllias Chali], [http://www.cs.uleth.ca/ University of Lethbridge], Canada
*[http://www.cs.uwm.edu/%7Esongsak Songsak Channarukul], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/huac/ Hua Cheng], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Department of Artificial Intelligence], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jencc/ Jennifer Chu-Carroll], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne], USA
*[http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.htm Nathalie Colineau], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/%7Enorman/ Norman Creaney], [http://www.ulst.ac.uk/ University of Ulster], N. Ireland
*[http://www.delilah.eu Crit Cremers], [http://www.leidenuniv.nl Universiteit Leiden], Netherlands
===D===
*[http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Erdale Robert Dale], Chief Technology Officer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG Ltd], Australia
*[http://www.dsv.su.se/%7Ehercules Hercules Dalianis], KTH, [http://www.dsv.su.se/ Stockholm University], Sweden
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Edanlos/ Laurence Danlos], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
*[http://spraakdata.gu.se/svedd/ Dana Dannélls], [http://www.gu.se/english/ University of Gothenburg], Sweden
*[http://www.gem.stir.ac.uk/delin.html Judy Delin], [http://www.stir.ac.uk/ University of Stirling], UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/ Seniz Demir], Senior Researcher, [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en TUBITAK BILGEM], Turkey
*[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~devault/ David DeVault], [http://www.ict.usc.edu Institute for Creative Technologies], [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Ebdieugen/ Barbara Di Eugenio], [http://www.eecs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois], Chicago USA
*[http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/cdimarco/cdimarco.html Chrysanne DiMarco], [http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/ Department of Computer Science], University of Waterloo, Canada
*[http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/%7Eadimit Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki], [http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory], Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
*[mailto:christine.doran-@-intel.com Christine Doran], Intel
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/ Mark Dras], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Sydney, Australia
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Epablo/ Pablo A. Duboue], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
===E===
*[mailto:phil.edmonds-@-sharp.co.uk Philip Edmonds], [http://www.sharp.co.uk/ Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd], UK
*[http://www.adil.elghali.name Adil El Ghali], Scientific Project Officer, [http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/178/0/ JRC - European Commission], Italy
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelhadad/ Michael Elhadad], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Enoemie/ Noemie Elhadad], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans Roger Evans], [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg NLTG], University of Brighton, UK
===F===
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Eafiedler Armin Fiedler], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Emef/ Mary Ellen Foster], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Efreedman Reva Freedman], [http://www.niu.edu/ Northern Illinois University], USA
===G===
*[http://www.loria.fr/~gardent/ Claire Gardent], [http://www.loria.fr/ Loria]/CNRS, Nancy France
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~garoufi Konstantina Garoufi], [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/english University of Potsdam], Germany
*[http://staff.um.edu.mt/albert.gatt/ Albert Gatt], [http://www.um.edu.mt University of Malta], Malta
*[http://www.namahn.com/profile/members/sg.htm Sabine Geldof], Researcher, [http://www.namahn.com Namahn], Brussels, Belgium
*[http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/144-genereux-michel Michel Généreux], Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/gerstenberger Ciprian Gerstenberger], [http://www2.uit.no/startsida University of Tromsø], Norway
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/92 Pablo Gervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dg106/ Dimitra Gkatzia], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Edinburgh, UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/rodrigodeoliveira/pages/main.html Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira], PhD Student, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/ University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/ Floriana Grasso], [http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Liverpool, UK
*[http://www.uncg.edu/%7Enlgreen Nancy Green], [http://www.uncg.edu/mat Department of Mathematical Sciences], University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/ Charlie Greenbacker], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/ Barbara J. Grosz], [http://das-www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University], USA
*[http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/%7Egrote/home.html Brigitte Grote], [http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science], Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
*[mailto:bikash.gyawali@loria.fr Bikash Gyawali], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Université de Lorraine], Nancy France
*[http://markusguhe.net/prof Markus Guhe], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===H===
*[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WSV/hp/habel-english.php Christopher Habel], [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ University of Hamburg], Germany
*[http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/ Dilek Hakkani-Tur], Senior Technical Staff, [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller Susan Haller], [http://www.cs.uwp.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Parkside], USA
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ch5293/ Catalina Hallett], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/wikirivers/ Xiwu Han], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dh5368/ David Hardcastle], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eharvey/papers.html Terry Harvey], [http://www.cis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/index.php?q=node/133 Raquel Hervás], [http://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://inf.abdn.ac.uk/people/homepage.php?userid=fhielkem Feikje Hielkema], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science// University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ejulia/ Julia Hirschberg], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/gh.html Graeme Hirst], [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Epedmonds/cl-group/home.html University of Toronto], Canada
*[http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/%7Ehoracek/ Helmut Horacek], [http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jhough/ Julian Hough], [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/imc/ Interaction, Media and Communication Group], School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Eduard Hovy], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[mailto:blake.howald@thomsonreuters.com Blake Howald], Research Scientist, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D]
*[http://www.davehowcroft.com Dave Howcroft], [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt Matt Huenerfauth], [http://www.qc.cuny.edu University of New York, Queens College], USA
===I===
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi Amy Isard], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===J===
*[http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/people/researchers/mj Marie-Claire Jenkins], [http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp Computing Sciences], University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*[http://www.pitt.edu/%7Epjordan Pamela W. Jordan], [http://www.isp.pitt.edu/ Intelligent Systems Program], University of Pittsburgh, USA
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ejoshi/ Aravind K. Joshi], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
===K===
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ekanmy/ Min-Yen Kan], [http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore]
*Ronald Kaplan, [http://www.nuance.com/index.htm Nuance Communications], Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
*[http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein8947/ Nikiforos Karamanis], [http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ University of Wolverhampton], UK
*[http://www.comp.dit.ie/jkelleher John Kelleher], [http://www.comp.dit.ie Dublin Institute of Technology], Dublin, Ireland
*[http://www.gerardkempen.nl Gerard Kempen], [http://www.mpi.nl/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics], Nijmegen, Netherlands
*[https://umdrive.memphis.edu/fkshtkar/www/ Fazel Keshtkar], [http://www.memphis.edu/ University of Memphis], USA
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ikhan/ Imtiaz Hussain Khan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/RK.html Rodger Kibble], [http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/ Goldsmiths College], London, UK
*[http://www.cogentex.com/company/people/kittredge.shtml Richard Kittredge], [http://www.cogentex.com/ CoGenTex, Inc.], USA
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Esklein/sklein.html Sheldon Klein], Professor of [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ Computer Sciences], Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*[http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/ Alistair Knott], Lecturer, [http://atlas.otago.ac.nz:800/computerscience.html Department of Computer Science], Otago University, New Zealand
*[http://www.cs.concordia.ca/%7Ekosseim Leila Kosseim], [http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University], Canada
*[http://fdlwww.kub.nl/~krahmer/ Emiel Krahmer], [http://www.uvt.nl/faculteiten/flw/ University of Tilburg], Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/ Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová], [http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/r.kutlak/ Roman Kutlak], Research Assistant, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], Scotland, UK
*[http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/%7Ekuringin/ Nick Kuringi], [http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ Computer Science], La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
===L===
*[mailto:xiao.li(at)abdn.ac.uk Xiao Li], [http://abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], UK
*[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Eirenelg/ Irene Langkilde-Geary], [http://www.cs.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University], Utah, USA
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elapalme Guy Lapalme], [http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ RALI lab], [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO)], [http://www.umontreal.ca/ Université de Montréal], Canada
*[http://www.francoislareau.info/ François Lareau], [http://ling-trad.umontreal.ca/accueil/ Département de linguistique et de traduction], [http://www.umontreal.ca Université de Montréal], Canada
*[mailto:julavid-@-filol.ucm.es Julia Lavid], [http://www.ucm.es/info/atg Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain
*[http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ Tennessee Leeuwenburg], [http://www.cawcr.gov.au/ The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research], Australia
*[https://sites.google.com/site/olemon/ Oliver Lemon], [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab Interaction Lab], [http://www.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], Scotland
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Greg Lessard], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/ James Lester], [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
*[http://research.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/ Michael Levison], [http://www.queensu.ca/ Queen's University], Canada
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/glin Grace Lin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/%7Elitman/ Diane Litman], [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh], USA
*[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~xlu Xin Lu], [http://www.cs.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago], USA
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~slukin/ Stephanie Lukin], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===M===
*[http://www.saad.me.uk/ Saad Mahamood], Senior NLG Engineer, [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG plc], UK
*[http://www.mairesse.co.uk Francois Mairesse], [http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge], UK
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/cm476/ Clara Mancini], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[mailto:imani-@-mitre.org Inderjeet Mani], [http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/infosys_tech/ Information Systems and Technology Division], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE]
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ehisarm Ruli Manurung], [http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ ICCS, Division of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland
*[http://www.eml-research.de/english/homes/marciniak/ Tomasz Marciniak], [http://www.eml-research.de/ European Media Lab], Heidelberg, Germany
*[http://www.isi.edu/%7Emarcu Daniel Marcu], [http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ Information Sciences Institute], USA
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/%7Emarsi/ Erwin Marsi], [http://ilk.uvt.nl/ University of Tilburg], Netherlands
*[https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos David Martins de Matos], [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/David_Martins_de_Matos Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico], Portugal
*[http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/ Christian M.I.M Matthiessen], [http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ Department of Linguistics], [http://www.mq.edu.au/ Macquarie University], Australia
*[http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/maybury/mark.html Mark Maybury], [http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/ Information Technology Center], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], USA
*[http://www.di.unito.it/~mazzei/AlessandroHomepage/home.html Alessandro Mazzei], [http://www.unito.it Università degli Studi di Torino], Italy
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emccoy/ Kathy McCoy], [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/ University of Delaware], USA
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ David McDonald], [http://www.sift.info/ Smart Information Flow Technologies] (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Ekathy Kathy McKeown], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], USA
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/c.mellish/pages/ Chris Mellish], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland
*[http://www.taln.upf.edu/users/simon Simon Mille], TALN groups, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Maria_Milosavljevic.html Maria Milosavljevic], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.m-mitchell.com/ Margaret Mitchell], [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/ Natural Language Processing Group], Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
*[http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emittal/ Vibhu O. Mittal], Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejmoore/ Johanna Moore], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
===N===
*[mailto:nipat-@-cs.uwm.edu Nipat Nalamlieng], [http://www.cs.uwm.edu/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee], USA
*[http://www.loria.fr/~narayans/ Shashi Narayan], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/ Université de Lorraine] Nancy France
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Eyaeln Yael Dahan Netzer], [http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Eneumann Günter Neumann], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], Germany
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/cweb/nicolas.html Nicolas Nicolov], [http://www.research.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], USA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/not.html Elena Not], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
===O===
*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/%7Ejon/ Jon Oberlander], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.wagsoft.com/mick.html Mick O'Donnell], Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain
===P===
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile166095.html Daniel Paiva], [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ University of Sussex], England UK
*[mailto:france.panaget-@-cnet.francetelecom.fr Franck Panaget], France Telecom, France
*[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eapapag/index.htm Afrodite Papagiannopoulou], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ University of Essex], Dept of Computer Science, UK
*[http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ivandre/ Ivandre Paraboni], [http://www.uspleste.usp.br/ University of São Paulo], Brazil
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/ Cécile Paris], [http://www.ict.csiro.au/ CSIRO ICT Centre], Australia
*[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/ Rebecca Passonneau], [http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
*[http://www.loria.fr/~perezlla/ Laura Perez-Beltrachini], [http://www.loria.fr/ LORIA]/CNRS, Nancy, France
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianta.html Emanuele Pianta], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cpietsch/ Christian Pietsch], [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Bielefeld University], [http://www.cit-ec.de/ Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)], Germany
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/ Paul Piwek], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England UK
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/ Massimo Poesio], [http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science], University of Essex, England UK
*[http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ponton Claude Ponton], [http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/ Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3], France
*[http://www-clips.imag.fr/geod/User/vladimir.popescu Vladimir Popescu], [http://lig.imag.fr/ CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble], France
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/rp3242/ Richard Power], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rjprasad/ Rashmi Prasad], [http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/ Institute for Research in Cognitive Science], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
*[http://prost.jeanphilippe.free.fr/ Jean-Philippe Prost], [http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0001-01.html LIRMM], Université de Montpellier 2, France
===Q===
===R===
*[http://tangra.si.umich.edu/%7Eradev/ Dragomir R. Radev], [http://www.si.umich.edu/ School of Information], Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Owen Rambow], [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Columbia University,], NY, USA
*[http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed Chris Reed], [http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Dundee], Scotland UK
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/e.reiter/pages/ Ehud Reiter], [http://www.arria.com/ Arria NLG], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://www.david-reitter.com/ David Reitter], Department of Psychology, [http://www.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, USA
*[https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ Verena Rieser], Lecturer in Computer Science, [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ Heriot-Watt University], UK
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/erishes Elena Rishes], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pages/ Graeme Ritchie], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science Computing Science], University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/%7Ejr Jacques Robin], [http://www.di.ufpe.br/ Federal University of Pernambuco], Brazil
*[http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/%7Elaurent/ Laurent Roussarie], [http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/ TALaNa], UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
===S===
*[http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/index.html Advaith Siddharthan], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/ Horacio Saggion], Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*[http://www.nist.gov/speech/staff/gregs.htm Gregory Sanders], [http://www.nist.gov/speech National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)], USA
*[mailto:Daniel.Savey-@-univ-montp3.fr Daniel Savey], [http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ Universite Montpellier 3], France
*[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/jsawyer Jennifer Sawyer], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebsay/ Bilge Say], [http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/ Middle East Technical University], Ankara, Turkey
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/a.schneider Anne H. Schneider], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[https://sites.google.com/site/schilderf2/home Frank Schilder], Research Manager, [http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/ Thomson Reuters R&D], USA
*[http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/%7Erolfs/ Rolf Schwitter], [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ Department of Computing], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/drs22/ Donia Scott], University of Sussex, England, UK
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eshaw James Shaw], [http://www.watson.ibm.com/ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center], New York, USA
*[http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/%7Esimeon Simeon Simoff], [http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc University of Sydney], Australia
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/yaji.sripada/ Yaji Sripada], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], United Kingdom
*[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/%7Estede Manfred Stede], [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/cl/ Department of Linguistics], University of Potsdam, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Esteedman/ Mark Steedman], [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.amandastent.com/ Amanda Stent], [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Research], USA
*[http://www.uni-saarland.de/~holger/ Holger Stenzhorn], [http://www.ifomis.org Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)] and [http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medinf Department of Medical Informatics], Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/stock.html Oliviero Stock], [http://tcc.itc.it/ ITC-irst], Italy
*[http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Emdstone Matthew Stone], [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/ Department of Computer Science] and [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ Center for Cognitive Science], Rutgers University, USA
*[http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk Kristina Striegnitz], Assistant Professor, [http://www.union.edu/ Union College], USA
*[http://www.reidswanson.com/ Reid Swanson], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
===T===
*[http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=teich Elke Teich], [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ Darmstadt University of Technology], Darmstadt, Germany
*[http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/%7Eht/ Henry S. Thompson], [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Human Computer Research Centre], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Etheune Mariët Theune], [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ Research Group Human Media Interaction], University of Twente, The Netherlands
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~rturner/ Ross Turner], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen
===U===
===V===
*[http://www.calvin.edu/%7Ekvlinden Keith Vander Linden], Calvin College, USA
*[http://isluis.home.xs4all.nl/ Ielka van der Sluis], [http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index University of Groningen], Groningen, the Netherlands
*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/k.vdeemter Kees van Deemter], [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen], Scotland UK
*[http://disi.unitn.it/~varges/ Sebastian Varges], [http://disi.unitn.it/welcome Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento], Trento, Italy
*[http://www.jetteviethen.net/ Jette Viethen], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University], Australia
===W===
*[http://www.dfki.de/%7Ewahlster/ Wolfgang Wahlster], [http://www.dfki.de/ DFKI], [http://w5.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Saarland University], Germany
*[http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/ Marilyn Walker], [http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/nlds Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab], [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California Santa Cruz]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan Stephen Wan], [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au Center for Language Technology], Macquarie University, Australia
*[http://recerca.upf.edu/taln/people_detail.php?pid=11 Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra], Barcelona, Spain
*[http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ Nigel Ward], [http://www.cs.utep.edu/ University of Texas at El Paso], USA
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bonnie/ Bonnie Webber], [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ School of Informatics], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mwhite/ Michael White], [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/ Dept. of Linguistics], [http://www.osu.edu The Ohio State University], Columbus, Ohio
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ Graham Wilcock], [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki], Helsinki, Finland
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick Yorick Wilks], [http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], UK
*[http://sandrahelenwilliams.wordpress.com Sandra Williams], [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/ Natural Language Generation Group], Open University, England, UK
===X===
===Y===
*[http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/ R. Michael Young], Assistant Professor, [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ North Carolina State University], USA
===Z===
*[http://i3.fbk.eu/people/zancanaro Massimo Zancanaro], [http://www.fbk.eu/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler], Italy
*[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Michael Zock], Research Director, CNRS, [http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/ LIF] (AMU, Marseille), France
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Eingrid/ Ingrid Zukerman], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/ School of Computer Science and Software Engineering], Monash University, Australia

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