INLG is the Biennial Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN). It has been previously held in Sydney, Australia in 2006, at Brockenhurst, UK in 2004, in Harriman, NY, USA in 2002, and in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel in 2000. Prior to 2000, INLGs were International Workshops, running every other year since 1984. As the leading international conference on research into natural language generation, INLG provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field.


This year, INLG 2008 will be held June 12–14, 2008 (immediately prior to ACL-08:HLT Conference) in southeastern Ohio, USA, at the Salt Fork Resort and Conference Center. During INLG 2008, we will have a special session devoted to the Referring Expression Generation Challenge 2008. Full details on the challenge can be found on the REG Challenge 2008 Web site.

The Salt Fork Resort and Conference Center is set in the relaxing and beautiful setting of the Salt Fork State Park. In addition to exceptional conference facilities, the resort and park also have beaches and pools for swimming, hiking, fishing, boating, waterskiing, horseback riding, geo-caching and more. During the meeting there will be birding hikes offered each morning and an afternoon hike with an experienced local naturalist. We will also have a conference banquet that includes an outdoor barbecue, Ohio-style, and bonfire. All these activities incorporated into the premier international meeting for research on natural language generation will make for an enjoyable and community-building INLG 2008.

We look forward to seeing you in Salt Fork!

Michael White, Crystal Nakatsu, & David McDonald
OSU Linguistics & BBN Technologies
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