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=== 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 422 members.

=== Board ===

An election was held in December 2016 for three positions on the SIGGEN board. The
members elected in 2016, whose roles were assigned by consensus by the SIGGEN board,
are the following:
*Dimitra Gkatzia (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), Secretary
*Amanda Stent (Bloomberg, USA), Treasurer
*Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh, UK), student representative

In addition, there are the following serving members, whose term of elected office started on
January 1, 2015:
*Claire Gardent (CNRS and Lorraine University, Nancy, France), Chair
*Albert Gatt (University of Malta), Member

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2018.

=== Activities ===

Since the period covered in the last report for 2017, SIGGEN has been responsible for the
following events.

=== INLG 2017 ===

The 10th edition of INLG was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on September 4-7,
2017. INLG 2017 was organised by the Intelligent Systems Unit of the Research Centre in
Information Technologies (CiTIUS) of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)
and University of Aberdeen , represented by Jose Alonso (CiTIUS-USC), Alberto Bugarin
(CiTIUS-USC) and Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen).

Following the INLG 2016 template, INLG 2017 included, in addition to the main conference,
several workshops, a tutorial, a hackathon as well as a Generation Challenge session
featuring both a running challenge and proposals for future shared tasks.

*Generation Challenges: WebNLG - http://talc1.loria.fr/webnlg/stories/challenge.html
*CC-NLG 2017 : Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation
*6th Workshop on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms .
*LiRA-NLG 2017 : Linguistic Resources for Automatic Natural Language Generation Workshop.
*XCI: Explainable Computational Intelligence
*Tutorial: Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen): Evaluating Natural Language Generation Systems
*SIGGEN Hackathon

=== INLG 2018 ===

The next INLG is scheduled to take place in Tilburg, Netherlands, on November 5-8, 2018
( https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/ ), immediately after EMNLP. INLG 2018 is 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 is chaired by Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg), Martijn Goudbeek (Tilburg) and
Albert Gatt (Uni of Malta).

=== Website ===

The SIGGEN website with all information has been moved into the ACL Wiki. The web
address changed from www.siggen.org to http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGGEN .
This is part of an ongoing process to revamp and update the website.

2018Q3 Reports: SIGGEN - Revision history

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