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2022Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2022-07-07T10:09:52Z

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'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:

* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report for 2021, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2021 ===
The 14th INLG conference was held in Aberdeen, UK, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:

* GEM 2021 workshop, held at ACL 2021 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)
* SIGGEN webinar series

=== Upcoming events ===

INLG-2022 will take place in Waterville, Maiine, USA on 18-22 July 2022. It will be a hybrid conference.

SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2022.

In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2022.

== Website ==
We hope to release a new website during summer 2022.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2020-07-03T16:18:50Z

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'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2019 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 400 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN boardis

* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2022)
* Amanda Curry (Heriot-Watt University, UK), student representative (term expires in 2020)
* Dimitra Gkatzia (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), Member (term expires in 2020)
* Amanda Stent (Bloomberg, USA), Treasurer (term expires in 2020)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2020, and new board members will be elected to replace Curry, Gkatzia, and Stent.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report for 2019, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2019 ===
The 12th INLG conference was held in Tokyo, Japan, on 29 October - 1 November 2019 (https://www.inlg2019.com/). This is the first time INLG has ever been held in Asia; it is encouraging and exciting to see the growth of interest in NLG in Asia which makes this possible!

INLG 2019 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:

* 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* 1st Workshop on AI Werewolf and Dialog System
* 4th Workshop on Computational Creativity in Language Generation
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2019), which was an EMNLP workshop

=== upcoming events ===

INLG-2020 will happen in Dublin. It was originally scheduled for Sep 2020, but was postponed to Dec 2020 because of the Covid lockdown. It is chaired by Brian Davis (Dublin City University), with support from the Adapt centre. It seems likely that INLG 2020 will be online at least in part.

SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting a workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation at ECAI-2020. It will be online.

== Website ==
We have updated and expanded the resources and data set section of the SIGGEN web page.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2019-06-27T08:27:44Z

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'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2019 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 419 members.

== Board ==
An election was held in December 2018 for three positions on the SIGGEN board. The members elected in 2018, whose roles were assigned by consensus by the SIGGEN board, are the following:

* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Secretary
* Amanda Curry (Heriot-Watt University, UK), student representative

In addition, there are the following serving members, whose term of elected office started on January 1, 2017:

* Dimitra Gkatzia (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), Member
* Amanda Stent (Bloomberg, USA), Treasurer

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2020.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report for 2018, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2018 ===
The 11th edition of INLG was held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, on November 5-8, 2018 (https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/). INLG 2018 was organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD). It was chaired by Emiel Krahmer (TULP), Martijn Goudbeek (TULP), and Albert Gatt (Malta University).

Following the INLG 2017 template, INLG 2018 included, in addition to the main conference, several workshops, a tutorial, a hackathon as well as a Generation Challenge session featuring both two running challenges and proposals for future shared tasks.

* Generation Challenges
* Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation
* Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation
* Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human–Robot Interaction
* Workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation
* Tutorial: Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel): Neural NLG
* SIGGEN Hackathon

=== INLG 2019 ===
The next INLG is scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan, from 29 October to 1 November 2019 (https://www.inlg2019.com/ ), immediately prior to EMNLP. INLG 2019 is organised by the AIST/Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan). It is chaired by Kees van Deemter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Chenghua Lin (University of Aberdeen, UK), and Hiroya Takamura (AIST/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan).

=== INLG 2020 ===
In 2020, INLG will take place in Ireland (Dublin area).

== Website ==
The SIGGEN website has been carefully checked and updated into the ACL Wiki. The web address www.siggen.org points to http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGGEN. This is part of an ongoing process to revamp and update the website. A new design is coming.