SIGGEN

ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

Welcome to the home page of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation. SIGGEN [ˈsɪɡ.ʤɛn] is a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation.

What is Natural Language Generation?

Natural language generation (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Good sources to learn about NLG include

• How do I Learn about NLG?
• Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation
• Wikipedia article on NLG

Resources

Natural Language Generation Portal

Upcoming Events

INLG 2020 will be held in Dublin (Ireland). Date to-be-decided, but most likely it will be either before or after COLING 2020

Other related events are:

• There is a special issue of Computer Speech and language on NLG, which is partially a followup of INLG 2019.

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

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.

Recent Events

INLG 2018 was held at Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 Novemeber 2018. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

• CC-NLG 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• 2IS&NLG 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• NLG4HRI 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• ATA 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

INLG 2017 was held at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

• CC-NLG 2017 (Workshop Proceedings)

• LiRA-NLG 2017 (Workshop Proceedings)

• RST 2017 (Workshop Proceedings)

• XCI 2017 (Workshop Proceedings)

INLG 2016 was held at Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

• CC-NLG 2016 (Workshop Proceedings)

• WebNLG 2016 (Workshop Proceedings)

Board

The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

• Ehud Reiter (mail) Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen and also Chief Scientist of Arria NLG. (chair)

elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022

• Dimitra Gkatzia (mail) School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh.

elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020

• Amanda Stent (mail), Bloomberg LP (treasurer)

elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020

• Jose M. Alonso ([1]) University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (secretary)

elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022

• Amanda Curry (mail) 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.