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			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].

	~~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)==		==SIGGEN report 2009 (submitted 2 July 2009)==




	ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009		ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009

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	SIGGEN board		SIGGEN board
	2 July 2009		2 July 2009

	==SIGGEN report 2008 (with minor corrections made by Roger Evans in July 2009)==		==SIGGEN report 2008 (with minor corrections made by Roger Evans in July 2009)==
	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on
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	SIGGEN board		SIGGEN board

	==SIGGEN report 2006==		==SIGGEN report 2006==
	SIGGEN report 2005-2006		SIGGEN report 2005-2006
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	<p style="text-indent:2em"> June 2005</p>		<p style="text-indent:2em"> June 2005</p>

	==SIGGEN report 2003==		==SIGGEN report 2003==
	SIGGEN (Owen Rambow)		SIGGEN (Owen Rambow)
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	Ehud Reiter as permanent board members, and Stephen Wan (Sydney) replaced		Ehud Reiter as permanent board members, and Stephen Wan (Sydney) replaced
	NoŽmie Elhadad as student member.</p>		NoŽmie Elhadad as student member.</p>

	==SIGGEN report 2002==		==SIGGEN report 2002==
	Report on SIGGEN 01-02		Report on SIGGEN 01-02
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	(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the		(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the
	organisation of NLG workshops).</p>		organisation of NLG workshops).</p>

	==SIGGEN report 1994==		==SIGGEN report 1994==
	SIGGEN		SIGGEN
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	presumed to be simple), etc. The result would be a shared and evolving workbook		presumed to be simple), etc. The result would be a shared and evolving workbook
	can be accumulated for researchers to consult. </p>		can be accumulated for researchers to consult. </p>

	==SIGGEN report 1993==		==SIGGEN report 1993==
	SIGGEN (NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION)		SIGGEN (NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION)
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			<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">MEMBERSHIP</p>
	~~_NOTOC_==~~=MEMBERSHIP~~===~~

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">SIGGEN membership, which currently stands at 170, is open to any member		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">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		of the ACL whose dues are paid for the current year. Anyone wishing to
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	mailing/membership list is available to SIGGEN members.</p>		mailing/membership list is available to SIGGEN members.</p>

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=SIGGEN BOARD OF DIRECTORS~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">SIGGEN BOARD OF DIRECTORS</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The SIGGEN Board of Directors is in transition. Volunteer nominations		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The SIGGEN Board of Directors is in transition. Volunteer nominations
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	transistion.		transistion.

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=SIGGEN QUERY BOARD~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">SIGGEN QUERY BOARD</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The SIGGEN QueryBoard address will change. During 1993 the QueryBoard		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The SIGGEN QueryBoard address will change. During 1993 the QueryBoard
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	members.</p>		members.</p>

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=SIGGEN SPONSORED WORKSHOPS~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">SIGGEN SPONSORED WORKSHOPS</p>

	SIGGEN co-sponsored the following workshops during the past year:		SIGGEN co-sponsored the following workshops during the past year:
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	rambow AT unagi.cis.upenn.edu.</p>		rambow AT unagi.cis.upenn.edu.</p>

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL NLG WORKSHOP~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL NLG WORKSHOP</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The International NLG Workshop has been the primary mtg for NLG		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">The International NLG Workshop has been the primary mtg for NLG
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	and Scott will be making a recommendation soon.</p>		and Scott will be making a recommendation soon.</p>

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=NLG BIBLIOGRAHY~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">NLG BIBLIOGRAHY</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">A new revised version (23rd February 1993) of Robert Dale's NLG		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">A new revised version (23rd February 1993) of Robert Dale's NLG
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	the NLG community.</p>		the NLG community.</p>

	~~_NOTOC_==~~=13. SIGPHON (COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY)~~===~~		<p style="margin:0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">13. SIGPHON (COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY)</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">Steven Bird</p>		<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:2em">Steven Bird</p>
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	For further information, contact:		For further information, contact:

	<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">Steven Bird. /p>		<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">Steven Bird. </p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science/p>		<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland, U.K./p>		<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland, U.K.</p>

	<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">Telephone: (031) 650-4421/4432. Fax: (031) 650-4587.</p>		<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 2em">Telephone: (031) 650-4421/4432. Fax: (031) 650-4587.</p>

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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==

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