2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN
ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2024 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 484 members.
Board
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2024, is the following:
- Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester, UK), Chair (term expires in 2026)
- Saad Mahamood (trivago N.V. [until 30.09.2025] / Shopware AG [from 01.10.2025], Germany), Secretary (term expires in 2028)
- Simon Mille (Dublin City University, Ireland), Treasurer (term expires in 2028)
- David Howcroft (Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK), Member (term expires in 2026)
- Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University, Czechia), Student representative (term expires in 2026)
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2026, and new board members will be elected to replace Lin, Howcroft, and Schmidtová.
Activities
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.
INLG 2024
The 17th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters) held in Tokyo, Japan (https://2024.inlgmeeting.org). Unlike last year, this conference was not jointly held with SIGDIAL, which was organised the week prior in Kyoto.
As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from the 23rd to 27th of September, 2024. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 2 ARR submissions, and 7 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 38 were accepted as long papers, 19 as short papers, and 6 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 15 papers in the Generation Challenges track.
Other Events
SIGGEN also supported the following workshops at the conference:
- PracticalD2T: 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
- Tutorial on: Human Evaluation of NLP System Quality
- The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System
Upcoming events
INLG 2025 will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam between the 29th of October to the 2nd of November (https://2025.inlgmeeting.org). This year the conference will take place before EMNLP 2025 which is organised the week after in Suzhou, China.
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.
Website
The website continues to be hosted at: https://inlgmeeting.org.
Mailing List
SIGGEN maintains an active mailing list located at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SIGGEN