Conference Program
Thursday, June 12, 2008
9:15–11:30
12:00–1:15
1:15–1:30
1:30–2:00
2:00–2:30
2:30–3:00
3:00–3:30
3:30–4:00
4:00–4:30
4:30–5:00
5:00–5:30
6:15–7:45
Chartered Coach leaves from the Hyatt Regency Hotel (Downtown Columbus) to Salt Fork State Park
Registration and Lunch
Opening Remarks
Session 1: Summarization
Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts
Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen McCoy
Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data
Ross Turner, Somayajulu Sripada, Ehud Reiter, Ian Davy
Dependency Tree Based Sentence Compression
Katja Filippova, Michael Strube
Extractive vs. NLG-based Abstractive Summarization of Evaluative Text: The Effect of Corpus Controversiality
Giuseppe Carenini, Jackie C. K. Cheung
Break
Session 2: Referring Expressions
Referring Expressions as Formulas of Description Logic
Carlos Areces, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz
Attribute Selection for Referring Expression Generation: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods
Albert Gatt, Anja Belz
The Use of Spatial Relations in Referring Expression Generation
Jette Viethen, Robert Dale
Banquet
Friday, June 13, 2008
7:00–9:00
9:00–10:00
10:00–10:30
10:30–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
12:00–1:00
1:00–4:30
4:30–5:30
5:30–7:00
7:00–8:30
Breakfast
Session 3: Psycholinguistics and Affect
Prominence and Phrasing in Spoken Discourse Processing (Invited Talk)
Shari R. Speer, Kiwako Ito
Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations
Ielka van der Sluis, Chris Mellish
Break
Session 4: Realization
Practical Grammar-Based NLG from Examples
David DeVault, David Traum, Ron Artstein
Accurate and Robust LFG-Based Generation for Chinese
Yuqing Guo, Haifeng Wang, Josef van Genabith
Lunch
Activity Break
Referring Expression Generation Challenge
The GREC Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt
The TUNA Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results
Albert Gatt, Anja Belz and Eric Kow
Poster Session
INLG Posters
REG Challenge Posters
Dinner
Saturday, June 14, 2008
7:00–9:00
9:00–10:00
10:00–10:30
10:30–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
12:00–12:30
12:30–1:30
1:30–2:00
2:00–2:30
2:30–3:00
3:30–5:30
Breakfast
Session 5: Embodied Conversational Agents
Language, Embodiment and Social Intelligence (Invited Talk)
Matthew Stone
Automated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent
Mary Ellen Foster
Break
Session 6: Content and Text Planning
Simple but effective feedback generation to tutor abstract problem solving
Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Davide Fossati
What's In a Message? Interpreting Geo-referenced Data for the Visually-impaired
Kavita Thomas, Yaji Sripada
Evolving Questions in Text Planning
Mick O'Donnell
Lunch
Session 7: Evaluation
Generation of Output Style Variation in the SAMMIE Dialogue System
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Olga Kukina, Jan Schehl
Evaluating an Ontology-Driven WYSIWYM Interface
Feikje Hielkema, Chris Mellish, Peter Edwards
The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data
Ehud Reiter, Albert Gatt, Francois Portet, Marian van der Meulen
Chartered Coach returns to Hyatt Regency in Columbus
INLG Posters
Building a Large-scale Commercial NLG System for an EMRMary Dee Harris
Degree of Abstraction in Referring Expression Generation and its Relation with the Construction of the Contrast Set
Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás
Parser-Based Retraining for Domain Adaptation of Probabilistic Generators
Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabith
Creation of a New Domain and Evaluation of Comparison Generation in a Natural Language Generation System
Matthew Marge, Amy Isard, Johanna Moore
Generating Baseball Summaries from Multiple Perspectives by Reordering Content
Alice Oh, Howard Shrobe
A Dynamic Programming Approach to Document Length Constraints
Keith Vander Linden
Referring Expression Generation Challenge Posters
GREC
IS-G: The Comparison of Different Learning Techniques for the Selection of the Main Subject References
Bernd Bohnet
CNTS: Memory-Based Learning of Generating Repeated References
Iris Hendrickx, Walter Daelemans, Kim Luyckx, Roser Morante and Vincent Van Asch
OSU-2: Generating Referring Expressions with a Maximum Entropy Classifier
Emily Jamison and Dennis Mehay
TUNA Shared Tasks
The Fingerprint of Human Referring Expressions and their Surface Realization with Graph Transducers (IS-FP, IS-GT, IS-FP-GT)
Bernd Bohnet
Referring Expression Generation Using Speaker-based Attribute Selection and Trainable Realization (ATTR)
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda J. Stent and Srinivas Bangalore
NIL-UCM: Most-Frequent-Value-First Attribute Selection and Best-Scoring-Choice Realization
Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás and Carlos León
USP-EACH Frequency-based Greedy Attribute Selection for Referring Expressions Generation
Diego Jesus de Lucena and Ivandré Paraboni
Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008 DIT System Descriptions (DIT-FBI, DIT-TVAS, DIT-CBSR, DIT-RBR, DIT-FBI-CBSR, DIT-TVAS-RBR)
John D. Kelleher and Brian Mac Namee
OSU-GP: Attribute Selection Using Genetic Programming
Josh King
GRAPH: The Costs of Redundancy in Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Jette Viethen and Iris Hendrickx
JU-PTBSGRE: GRE Using Prefix Tree Based Structure
Sibabrata Paladhi and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
TUNA Open Track
From TUNA Attribute Sets to Portuguese Text: a First Report
Daniel Bastos Pereira and Ivandré Paraboni
- March 21, 2008 Paper/Poster Deadline
- April 25, 2008 Acceptance decisions
- May 16, 2008 Camera-ready copy due
- June 12-14, 2008 INLG 2008 in Salt Fork, Ohio
