Wednesday, May 30, 2012
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch and Check-in |
| 1:30-1:45 |
Opening |
| 1:45-2:45 |
Invited Talk: Natural Language Generation and Assistive Technologies
Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware |
| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-4:30 |
Session I: Referring Expressions and Summarization |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Learning Preferences for Referring Expression Generation: Effects of Domain, Language and Algorithm (Koolen, Krahmer, Theune) |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Referring in Installments: A Corpus Study of Spoken Object References in an Interactive Virtual Environment (Striegnitz, Buschmeier, Kopp) |
| 4:00-4:30 |
MinkApp: Generating Spatio-temporal Summaries for Nature Conservation Volunteers (Tintarev, Melero, Sripada, Tait, van der Wal, Mellish) |
| 7:00 |
Dinner |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
| 8:30-9:30 |
Breakfast |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Session II: Grammar and Surface Realization |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Towards a Surface Realization-Oriented Corpus Annotation
(Wanner, Mille, Bohnet) |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Generation for Grammar Engineering (Gardent, Kruszewski) |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Panel: Advances in Natural Language Generation |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 |
GenChal '12: Reports on Current and Future Tasks |
| 1:30-1:40 |
Introduction and Report: Question Generation Task |
| 1:40-1:55 |
Report: Surface Realization Task |
| 1:55-2:15 |
Report: Helping Our Own Task |
| 2:15-2:30 |
Proposal: KBGen – Text Generation from Knowledge Bases
(Banik, Gardent, Scott, Dinesh, Liang) |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Proposal: Content Selection From Semantic Web Data
(Bouayad-Agha, Mellish, Casamayor, Wanner) |
| 2:45-3:00 |
Proposal: Syntactic Paraphrase Ranking (White) |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30-4:30 |
Session III: Dialogue |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Perceptions of Alignment and Personality in Generated Dialogue
(Gill, Brockmann, Oberlander) |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Optimising Incremental Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Reducing the Need for Fillers (Dethlefs, Hastie, Rieser, Lemon) |
| 4:30-6:30 |
Session IV: Posters&Demos |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Poster&Demo Preview: Two minute madness |
| 5:00-6:30 |
Poster&Demo Presentations |
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Blogging birds: Generating narratives about reintroduced species to promote public engagement (Siddharthan, Green, van Deemter, Mellish, van der Wal) |
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Interactive Natural Language Query Construction for Report Generation
(Popowich, Mosny, Lindberg) |
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Working with Clinicians to Improve a Patient-Information NLG System
(Mahamood, Reiter) |
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Sign Language Generation with Expert Systems and CCG (Mazzei) |
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Rich Morphology Generation Using Statistical Machine Translation
(El Kholy, Habash) |
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Extractive email thread summarization: Can we do better than He Said She Said? (Duboue) |
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Planning Accessible Explanations for Entailments in OWL Ontologies
(Nguyen, Power, Piwek, Williams) |
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Reformulating student contributions in tutorial dialogue
(Jordan, Katz, Albacete, Ford and Wilson) |
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Demo: Using Linguist's Assistant for Language Description and Translation
(Allman, Beale) |
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Demo: Midge: Generating Descriptions of Images (Mitchell, Han, Hayes) |
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Demo: Generating Natural Language Summaries for Multimedia
(Ding, Metze, Rawat, Schulam, Burger) |
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Demo: Natural Language Generation for a Smart Biology Textbook
(Banik, Kow, Dinesh, Chaudri and Oza) |
| 7:30 |
Dinner |
Friday, June 1, 2012
| 8:00-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Invited Talk: Expressive NLG for Next-Generation Learning Environments: Language, Affect, and Narrative.
James Lester, North Carolina State University |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Break |
| 10:20-11:50 |
Session V: Ontologies and Multilinguality |
| 10:20-10:50 |
On generating coherent multilingual descriptions of museum objects from Semantic Web ontologies (Dannélls) |
| 10:50-11:20 |
“Hidden semantics”: what can we learn from the names in an ontology? (Third) |
| 11:20-11:50 |
Linguist's Assistant: A Multi-Lingual Natural Language Generator based on Linguistic Universals, Typologies, and Primitives (Allman, Beale, Denton) |
| 11:50-12:00 |
Closing |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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