natural language generation

New trends of intelligent language processing systems are emerging, such as big data analysis, social network analysis, Internet of things, smart services, mobile computing, computer games, to name a few. Applications of these trends have been applied to various domains including education, travel and tourism, healthcare, among others.

Computational Pragmatics (CompPrag2016)

Workshop at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Konstanz, February 24-26.

Invited speakers
Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen
Noah Goodman, Stanford University

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the first annual Neukom Institute Prizes in Computational Arts. These competitions aim to inspire innovations in computational methods that generate artistic products, such as literary, musical, and visual art.

Two of this year's contests are in creative natural language generation: the "DigiLit" task, which encourages the creation of algorithms able to produce a short story, and "PoetiX", a competition in computer-generated sonnet writing in response to a prompt.

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(part of the CLEF 2015 QA track to take place in Toulouse, France, 8-11 September, 2015)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/

The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 3a and Task 3b).

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

* Large-scale and hierarchical classification
* Machine learning
* Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity

Website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/d2t/

SCOPE

Every day, approximately 3000 new bio-medical articles are published on the Web. This averages to more than 2 articles every minute. In addition to the sheer amount of bio-medical information available on the Web, the variety of this information increases everyday and ranges from structured data in the form of ontologies to unstructured data in the form of documents.

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing
and question answering (part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to
take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/

We are happy to announce that the first test for BioASQ Task 2b
(biomedical semantic QA) will take place in a few days!

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

* Question answering from unstructured and structured data

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/

The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 2a and Task 2b).

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

* Large-scale and hierarchical classification
* Machine learning
* Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity

(Apologies for multiple postings)

The program for the INLG 2012 conference is available at

http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/conference-program

And one final reminder that the deadline for early registration for INLG 2012 is Mon 4/30 noon CST (-6 gmt) [please note time]

Best wishes,
Barbara Di Eugenio and Susan McRoy
INLG 2012 Co-Chairs

Please visit the INLG 2012 web site for a list of accepted papers, and a link to the registration form.

INLG web site: http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/
Direct link to registration: https://aclweb.org/conference/inlg2012/

IMPORTANT: early registration ends on Apr 30, NOON CST (GMT -6).
As usual for the INLG conferences, registration is comprehensive of registration proper, room & board, and coach transportation from downtown Chicago to Starved Rock, and back.