natural language generation

Final Call for papers: Workshop “Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics” (CoMPrag2018)

The workshop “Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics” will take place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on September 26-28, 2018.

Natural Language Generation (NLG) is in the ascendant both as a stand-alone data-to-text or text-to-text task and as part of downstream applications (see, e.g., abstractive summarization, dialogue-based interaction, question answering, etc.). Only in 2017, three “deep” NLG shared tasks that focused on language generation from abstract semantic representations have been organized: WebNLG, SemEval Task 9 , E2E.

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Important dates
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Apr 23, 2018 (11:59 PM GMT -12:00.) : Workshop papers due
May 7, 2018 : Notification of acceptance
May 28, 2018 : Camera-ready papers due
Jul 19, 2018 : Workshop date

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Submissions
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We invite full papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages); long and short papers have unlimited references.

Call for papers
Special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS)
Journal of Dialogue & Discourse

INLG 2018 -- Call for bids
Deadline for Proposals: 30 October 2017

SIGGEN (The Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation of the Association for Computational Linguistics) invites proposals to organise and/or chair the International Natural Language Generation (INLG) Conference in 2018. This year, we are inviting proposals for two distinct roles: hosting and chairing. Proposals may cover either one of these, or both.

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SigDial 2017 Special Session:
Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
First Call for Papers
Paper Submission: 18th April 2017
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
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* MOTIVATION

Shared task on end-to-end natural language generation from dialogue acts, using unaligned data.

The DSTC shared task has now been running since 2013. This year’s challenge has been renamed to Dialog System Technology Challenge, which reflects the wider scope we aim for.

The DSTC6 challenge will include 3-4 tracks, which should reflect the interests of the community. We would like to encourage you to submit a track proposal for dialog related technologies including but not limited to:

Start date flexible.

9th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2016)

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Dates: 5-8 September 2016
Website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

Submissions deadline: 16 May 2016