The Final Call for Papers of the 1st Workshop on Learning to Generate Natural Language

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
LGNL
Location: 
International Convention Centre
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Country: 
Australia
City: 
Sydney
Contact: 
Tsung-Hsien Wen
Yishu Miao
Kris Cao
Daniela Grez
Wang Ling
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 2 June 2017

The 1st Workshop on Learning to Generate Natural Language (LGNL) invites papers of a theoretical and experimental nature on language generation and their conditional variants. The event will be co-located with ICML in Sydney, Australia. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

Content planning
Decoding strategies
Dialogue response generation
Discourse coherence
Evaluation of language generation
Image caption generation
Instructions generation
Language modelling
Machine translation
Multimodal language generation
Poetry/Lyric generation
Question answering
Semantic coherence
Story generation
Summarisation
Video description generation

Submissions
We welcome three categories of paper: regular workshop papers, cross-submissions and extended abstracts. Submissions should be made to https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/LGNL2017.

Best Paper Prizes and Student Travel Grants
All the paper submissions are eligible for the best paper award (500 USD) selected by our program committee. For the students or postdocs whose papers are accepted to our workshop, we are going to provide student travel grants on a competitive basis to a number of applicants. The grants are intended to partially support the travel to Sydney, Australia, but will not cover all travel expenses.

Regular Workshop Papers
Authors should submit a paper of up to 4-6 pages long, with unlimited reference and supplementary material pages. The submission should follow the ICML 2017 style and formatting guidelines (https://2017.icml.cc/Conferences/2017/StyleAuthorInstructions). The papers should present novel research. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission.

Extended Abstracts
Preliminary but interesting ideas that have not been published before may be submitted as extended abstracts. These should be up to 2 pages long. They will not be included in the archival proceedings, and so are an ideal for work which would benefit from additional exposure and discussion but is not ready for publication. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission.

Cross-submissions
In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have appeared in alternative venues (such as NLP or speech conferences). Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue, but will not be included in the archival proceedings. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organising committee.