Sunday, June 17
2007
| 15:00 onwards | Warm Up: Registration; Supper; Get-together |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening |
| Evaluation I: Introduction | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Robert Dale
Report on the NSF Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in NLG |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Anja Belz: Presentation of the Attribute Selection for Referring Expressions Generation Challenge |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Topic leaders present their topics, additional topics proposed |
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| Architecture Issues | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Ehud Reiter An Architecture for Data-to-Text Systems |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Roger
Evans, David Weir, John Carroll, Daniel Paiva and
Anja Belz Modelling control in generation |
| 12:15 | LUNCH |
| Generating Referring Expressions | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Anja Belz and Sebastian Varges Generation of repeated references to discourse entities |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jette Viethen and Robert Dale Capturing Acceptable Variation in Distinguishing Descriptions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Albert Gatt, Ielka van der Sluis and Kees van Deemter Evaluating algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions using a balanced corpus |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Mariet Theune, Nanda Slabbers and
Feikje Hielkema The Narrator: NLG for digital storytelling |
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| Discourse | |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Mary
Ellen Foster and Michael White Avoiding Repetition in Generated Text |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Clara
Mancini, Christian Pietsch and Donia Scott Visualising Discourse Structure in Interactive Documents |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Swati
Gupta, Marilyn Walker and Daniela Romano Generating Politeness in Task Based Interaction: An Evaluation of the Effect of Linguistic Form and Culture |
| 18::00 - 19:00 | SUPPER |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Public SIGGEN Business Meeting |
| Get together |
| Variability and Verbs | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Nitin
Madnani, Rebecca Passonneau, Necip Fazil Ayan, John Conroy, Bonnie
Dorr, Judith Klavans, Dianne O'Leary and Judith
Schlesinger Measuring Variability in Sentence Ordering for News Summarization |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Karin
Harbusch, Camiel van Breugel, Ulrich Koch and
Gerard Kempen Interactive sentence combining and paraphrasing in support of integrated writing and grammar instruction: A new application area for natural language sentence generators |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Ralf
Klabunde Lexical choice of modal expressions |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Richard
Power Abstract verbs |
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| Evaluation II: Invited Talk | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Kristiina Jokinen Quality of service and communicative competence in NLG evaluation |
| 12:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Poster Session |
| Charles Callaway and Johanna Moore Determining tutorial remediation strategies from a corpus of human-human tutoring dialogues |
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| Debora Field and Allan Ramsay Deep-reasoning-centred explanatory dialogue |
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| Katja Filippova and Michael Strube Extending the Entity-grid Coherence Model to Semantically Related Entities |
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| Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos Generating Multilingual Descriptions from Linguistically Annotated OWL Ontologies: the NaturalOWL System |
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| David Hardcastle Cryptic Crossword Clues: Generating Text with a Hidden Meaning |
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| Thomas Kleinbauer, Stephanie
Becker and
Tilman Becker Combining Multiple Information Layers for the Automatic Generation of Meeting Abstracts |
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| Saad Mahamood, Ehud Reiter and Chris Mellish A Comparison of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts |
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| Manon Penning and Mariet Theune Cueing the Virtual Storyteller: Analysis of cue phrase usage in fairy tales |
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| Kavita Thomas and Somayajulu Sripada Atlas.txt: Improving Access to Geo-referenced Data with NLG |
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| Sandra Williams, Paul Piwek and Richard Power Generating monologue and dialogue to present personalised medical information to patients |
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| Leasure time: walk -- on the wild side? | |
| 18:00 | WORKSHOP DINNER, Get-together |
| Grammar-based Generation |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Claire
Gardent and Eric Kow Spotting Overgeneration Suspects |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Aoife Cahill, Martin Forst
and Christian Rohrer Stochastic Realisation Ranking for a Free Word Order Language |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Deirdre Hogan, Conor Cafferkey,
Aoife Cahill and Josef
van Genabith Exploiting Multi-Word Units in History-Based Probabilistic Generation |
| Fostering the Semantic Web | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Xiantang
Sun and Chris Mellish An Experiment on "Free Generation" from Single RDF Triples |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Feikje
Hielkema, Chris Mellish and Peter Edwards Using WYSIWYM to Create an Open-ended Interface for the Semantic Grid |
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| Evaluation III: Discussion | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Topic leaders and/or other group
members summarise the outcomes of discussions. Topics discussed in plenum |
| 12:15 | LUNCH |
| Departure |