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

NLG Data Sets and Other Resources

Natural Language Generation Resources

Upcoming Events

We are looking for bids to host INLG 2022!

INLG 2021 will be hosted by Aberdeen University on 20-24 September. It will mostly be online, but there will be extra events for people who are able to physically travel to Aberdeen. Submission deadline is 31 May.

GEM workshop will be held at ACL in early August. It will focus on a series of NLG shared tasks.

SIGGEN is starting a monthly webinar series. We're looking for talks on anything of interest to SIGGEN/NLG community, including research, tutorials, and commercial projects. If you have an idea for a webinar, please email siggen-board@aclweb.org

Mailing List

Joining the mailing list:

The SIGGEN mailing list is currently going through a transition.

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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 2020 was held online (virtually from Dublin City University, DCU, in Dublin Ireland, 15-18 December, 2020). Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

• 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning ([ proceedings])
• 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI) ([ proceedings])
• 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI) ([ proceedings])
• 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation ([ proceedings])
• 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web ([ proceedings])

2020 SIGGEN supported events:

• MSR2020 - Third Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (COLING workshop)
• IntelLanG - Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation (ECAI workshop)

INLG 2019 was held in Tokyo, Japan, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019. Conference proceedings are published in the ACL Anthology

Endorsed events:

• 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG (proceedings)
• 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (proceedings)
• The 1st International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (proceedings)
• The 4th Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (proceedings)
• The Second Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization (MSR 2019) (proceedings)

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

Endorsed events:

• CC-NLG 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• 2IS&NLG 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• NLG4HRI 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)

• ATA 2018 (Workshop Proceedings)
• Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization (MSR 2018) (proceedings)

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

• Jose M. Alonso (mail) CiTIUS, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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

• Emiel van Miltenburg (mail) Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (treasurer)

elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2024

• Raquel Hervás (mail) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (secretary)

elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2024

• Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (mail) Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, Scotland, UK (student member)

elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2022

To contact the entire board, please use the email alias: siggen-board (at) aclweb (dot) org.