natural language generation

GENERATION CHALLENGES 2012
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To be held in conjunction with INLG 2012, 30 May-01 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA.

Over the past five years, there has been a lot of activity in
connection with shared tasks in Natural Language Generation (NLG).
Six separate sets of shared tasks each with its own data and team of
organisers have so far been run: TUNA (Gatt et al.), GREC (Belz et
al.), GIVE (Koller et al.), QG (Rus et al.), HOO (Dale and Kilgarriff)
SR (Belz, White et al.). The Pilot Attribute Selection for

INLG 2012, the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL, May 30-June 1, 2012.

Further details on the program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the full program
committee is now available at the conference web site

http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/

Highlights:

1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University

2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/

The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2012) will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica IL, USA, May 30 - June 1 2012. (INLG 2012 will closely precede NAACL, which will be June 3 - 8 in Montreal.) Starved Rock State Park is about 94 miles/150 kilometers south of Chicago's O'Hare airport. See http://www.starvedrockstatepark.org for more information.

A full CFP will be circulated shortly, but here we include the *IMPORTANT DATES*

• Long/short paper submission deadline: Feb 10, 2012 (Fri)
  

GIVE-2.5: NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments

*** Please take this last opportunity to help us evaluate NLG systems by
*** going on a virtual treasure hunt.
*** Several software improvements have been made, so please try again if
*** you had problems before!

http://www.give-challenge.org

Part of Generation Challenges 2011
Endorsed by SIGGEN and SIGSEM

Dear colleagues,

***** Upon popular request, the deadline for submissions has been postponed
***** to June 8th, 2011

13th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION (ENLG 2011)
http://talc.loria.fr/13th-European-Workshop-on-Natural.html

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

ENLG 2011 will take place in Nancy, France, Sep. 28-30, 2011.
Submission deadline: June 8, 2011

Invited Speakers:
* Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
* Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Jeff Orkin, MIT Media Labs, USA

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MWE 2011 Call for Participation

*** Early bird registration until May 23, 2011 ***

ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions:
from Parsing and Generation to the real world (MWE 2011)

http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011

endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)

Portland, Oregon, USA - June 23, 2011

Registration: http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2011reg.php

GIVE-2.5: Last Call for Participation/System Submissions
http://www.give-challenge.org/research/

Part of Generation Challenges 2011
Endorsed by SIGGEN and SIGSEM

We invite you to participate in the next edition of the Challenges on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE) by submitting an NLG system for the GIVE scenario. In this scenario, a human user performs a "treasure hunt" task in a virtual 3D environment. The NLG system's job is to generate, in real time, a sequence of natural-language instructions that will help the user perform this task.