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Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

Conference PROGRAMME

Saturday, July 15, 2006
9:15–9:30 Opening Remarks
  Surface Realisation Session 1 - Chair: Jon Oberlander
9:30–9:45 A Generation-Oriented Workbench for Performance Grammar
Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen, Camiel van Breugel and Ulrich Koch
9:45–10:15 CCG Chart Realization from Disjunctive Inputs
Michael White
10:15–10:30 Overgeneration and Ranking for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sebastian Varges
10:30–11:00 Morning Tea
  Surface Realisation Session 2 - Chair: Kathleen McCoy
11:00–11:30 Individuality and Alignment in Generated Dialogues
Amy Isard, Carsten Brockmann and Jon Oberlander
11:30–12:00 Using Distributional Similarity to Identify Individual Verb Choice
Jing Lin
12:00–12:15 Adjective-to-Verb Paraphrasing in Japanese Based on Lexical Constraints of Verbs
Atsushi Fujita, Naruaki Masuno, Satoshi Sato and Takehito Utsuro
12:15–2:00 Lunch
  Referring Expressions Session 1 - Chair: Donia Scott
2:00–2:30 Generating References to Parts of Recursively Structured Objects
Helmut Horacek
2:30–3:00 Overspecified Reference in Hierarchical Domains: Measuring the Benefits for Readers
Ivandre Paraboni, Judith Masthoff and Kees van Deemter
3:00–3:30 Algorithms for Generating Referring Expressions: Do They Do What People Do?
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale
3:30–4:00 Afternoon Tea
  Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation -
Chairs: Anja Belz and Robert Dale
4:00–4:15 Special Session Opening Remarks
4:15–4:30 Evaluations of NLG Systems: Common Corpus and Tasks or Common Dimensions and Metrics?
Cιcile Paris, Nathalie Colineau and Ross Wilkinson
4:30–4:45 Building a Semantically Transparent Corpus for the Generation of Referring Expressions.
Kees van Deemter, Ielka van der Sluis and Albert Gatt
4:45–5:00 Shared-Task Evaluations in HLT: Lessons for NLG
Anja Belz and Adam Kilgarriff
5:00–5:15 GENEVAL: A Proposal for Shared-task Evaluation in NLG
Ehud Reiter and Anja Belz
5:15–6:15 Open Mic Session
  Participants:

How NOT to Say It: On the need for human evaluation of what to AVOID in realization ranking
Michael White
Methods, Requirements and Licenses for Shared NLG Resources
David Reitter and Charles Callaway
Abstract
Helmut Horacek
Abstract
Sebastian Varges
An NLG evaluation competition? Eight Reasons to be Cautious
Donia Scott and Johanna Moore

and other contributions from the floor.

Sunday, July 16, 2006
9:00–10:30 Invited Talk - introduced by Cιcile Paris
  Lessons Learned from Large Scale Evaluation of Systems that Produce Text: Nightmares and Pleasant Surprises
Kathleen R. McKeown
10:30–11:00 Morning Tea
  Referring Expressions Session 2 - Chair: Michael White
11:00–11:30 Group-Based Generation of Referring Expressions
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe and Takenobu Tokunaga
11:30–12:00 Noun Phrase Generation for Situated Dialogs
Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalene Shockley, Donna K. Byron and Eric Fosler-Lussier
12:00–12:15 The Clarity-Brevity Trade-off in Generating Referring Expressions
Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Graeme Ritchie and Kees van Deemter
12:15–1:45 Lunch
  Session on Querying, Answering and Arguing - Chair: Kathleen McKeown
1:45–2:15 Generic Querying of Relational Databases using Natural Language Generation Techniques
Catalina Hallett
2:15–2:45 Generating Intelligent Numerical Answers in a Question-Answering System
Vιronique Moriceau
2:45–3:00 Generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from Medical Text: A Pilot Study
Nikiforos Karamanis, Ha Le An and Ruslan Mitkov
3:00–3:30 Generation of Biomedical Arguments for Lay Readers
Nancy Green
3:30–4:00 Afternoon Tea