We are pleased to announce that the following papers have been accepted for INLG 2018. A more detailed program volition be appear shortly.

Long papers

  • A Master-Amateur Arroyo to Automatic Creation of Cultural Satire — Khalid Alnajjar and Mika Hämäläinen
  • Designing and testing the messages produced by a virtual dietitian — Luca Anselma and Alessandro Mazzei
  • Evaluation methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013-2018 — Jacopo Amidei, Paul Piwek and Alistair Willis
  • SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin — Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter and Chenghua Lin
  • Learning to Flip the Bias of News Headlines — Wei-Fan Chen, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib and Benno Stein
  • Syntactic Manipulation for Generating more Diverse and Interesting Texts — Jan Milan Deriu and Mark Cieliebak
  • Stylistically User-Specific Generation — Abdurrisyad Fikri, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
  • LSTM Hypertagging — Reid Fu and Michael White
  • Specificity measures and reference — Albert Gatt, Nicolás Marín, Gustavo Rivas-Gervilla and Daniél Sánchez
  • Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Edifice Clear Mental Models through a Multimodal Interface — Francisco Garcia, David A Robb, Pedro Patron, Atanas Ivaylov Laskov and Helen Hastie
  • End-to-Finish Content and Plan Selection for Data-to-Text Generation — Sebastian Gehrmann, Falcon Dai, Henry Elderberry and Alexander Rush
  • Treat the arrangement like a human being student: Automatic naturalness evaluation of generated text without reference texts — Isabel Groves, Ye Tian and Ioannis Douratsos
  • Neural Generation of Diverse Questions using Answer Focus, Contextual and Linguistic Features — Vrindavan Harrison and Marilyn Walker
  • Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Data-to-Text Natural Language Generation: Word- vs. Graphic symbol-based Processing and Output Diverseness — Glorianna Jagfeld, Sabrina Beer and Ngoc Thang Vu
  • Characterizing Variation in Crowd-Sourced Data for Training Neural Language Generators to Produce Stylistically Varied Outputs — Juraj Juraska and Marilyn Walker
  • Automated learning of templates for data-to-text generation: comparing rule-based, statistical and neural methods — Chris van der Lee, Emiel Krahmer and Sander Wubben
  • Statistical NLG for Generating the Content and Course of Referring Expressions — Xiao Li, Kees van Deemter and Chenghua Lin
  • Content Aware Source Lawmaking Change Description Generation — Pablo Loyola, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Jorge Balazs, Yutaka Matsuo and Fumiko Satoh
  • Adapting Descriptions of People to the Point of View of a Moving Observer — Gonzalo Méndez, Raquel Hervas, Pablo Gervás, Ricardo de la Rosa and Daniel Ruiz
  • Underspecified Universal Dependency Structures every bit Inputs for Multilingual Surface Realisation — Simon Mille, Anja Belz and Leo Wanner
  • BENGAL: An Automatic Benchmark Generator for Entity Recognition and Linking — Axel Ngonga, Michael Röder, Diego Moussallem, Ricardo Usbeck and René Speck
  • Automatically Generating Questions about Novel Metaphors in Literature — Natalie Parde and Rodney Nielsen
  • Generation of Visitor descriptions using concept-to-text and text-to-text deep models: dataset collection and systems evaluation — Raheel Qader, Khoder Jneid, François Portet and Cyril Labbe
  • Can Neural Generators for Dialogue Learn Sentence Planning and Soapbox Structuring? — Lena Reed, Shereen Oraby and Marilyn Walke
  • Judgement Packaging in Text Generation from Semantic Graphs equally a Community Detection Trouble — Alexander Shvets, Simon Mille and Leo Wanner
  • Handling Rare Items in Data-to-Text Generation — Anastasia Shimorina and Claire Gardent
  • Neural Transition-based Syntactic Linearization — Linfeng Vocal, Yue Zhang and Daniel Gildea
  • Generating E-Commerce Product Titles and Predicting their Quality — José M. C. de Souza, Michael Kozielski, Prashant Mathur, Ernie Chang, Marco Guerini, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi and Evgeny Matusov
  • Comprehension Driven Document Planning in Natural Language Generation Systems — Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter and Somayajulu Sripada
  • Narrating a Knowledge Base — Qingyun Wang, Xiaoman Pan, Lifu Huang, Boliang Zhang, Zhiying Jiang, Heng Ji and Kevin Knight
  • Decoding Strategies for Neural Referring Expression Generation — Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen
  • Adapting Neural Unmarried-Certificate Summarization Model for Abstractive Multi-Certificate Summarization: A Pilot Report — Jianmin Zhang, Jiwei Tan and Xiaojun Wan

Brusk papers

  • Char2char Generation with Reranking for the E2E NLG Challenge — Shubham Agarwal, Marc Dymetman and Eric Gaussier
  • Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation — Shubham Agarwal, Ondřej Dušek, Ioannis Konstas and Verena Rieser
  • Generating Marketplace Comments Referring to External Resources — Tatsuya Aoki, Akira Miyazawa, Kasumi Aoki, Keiichi Goshima, Tatsuya Ishigaki, Ichiro Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura and Yusuke Miyao
  • SpatialVOC2K: A Multilingual Dataset of Images with Annotations and Features for Spatial Relations between Objects — Anja Belz and Adrian Muscat
  • Adding the Third Dimension to Spatial Relation Detection in 2D Images — Brandon Birmingham, Adrian Muscat and Anja Belz
  • Automatic Opinion Question Generation — Yllias Chali and Tina Baghaee
  • Modelling Pro-drib with the Rational Speech Acts Model — Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter and Chenghua Lin
  • Self-Learning Compages for Natural Language Generation — Hyungtak Choi, Siddarth KM, Haehun Yang, Heesik Jeon, Inchul Hwang and Jihie Kim
  • Final Report of the E2E NLG Challenge — Ondřej Dušek, Jekaterina Novikova and Verena Rieser
  • E2E NLG Challenge Submission: Towards Controllable Generation of Diverse Natural Linguistic communication — Henry Elder, Sebastian Gehrmann, Alexander O'Connor and Qun Liu
  • Enriching the WebNLG corpus — Thiago Castro Ferreira, Diego Moussallem, Emiel Krahmer and Sander Wubben
  • Towards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning — James Forrest, Somayajulu Sripada, Wei Pang and George Coghill
  • Adapting SimpleNLG to Galician language — Andrea Cascallar Fuentes, Alejandro Ramos Soto and Alberto Bugarín Diz
  • Template-based multilingual football reports generation using Wikidata as a noesis base — Lorenzo Gatti, Chris van der Lee and Mariët Theune
  • Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Judgement Planning — David Yard. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow and Vera Demberg
  • The Chore Matters: Comparing Image Captioning and Task-Based Dialogical Image Clarification — Nikolai Ilinykh, Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen
  • Going Dutch: Creating SimpleNLG-NL — Ruud de Jong and Mariët Theune
  • Generating Summaries of Sets of Consumer Products: Learning from Experiments — Kittipitch Kuptavanich, Ehud Reiter, Kees van Deemter and Advaith Siddharthan
  • Neural judgement generation from formal semantics — Kana Manome, Masashi Yoshikawa, Hitomi Yanaka, Pascual Martínez-Gómez, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki
  • Deep Graph Convolutional Encoders for Structured Data to Text Generation — Diego Marcheggiani and Laura Perez-Beltrachini
  • Talking virtually other people: an endless range of possibilities — Emiel van Miltenburg, Desmond Elliott and Piek Vossen
  • E2E NLG Claiming: Neural Models vs. Templates — Yevgeniy Puzikov and Iryna Gurevych
  • The E2E NLG Claiming: A Tale of Two Systems — Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Elnaz Davoodi and Dezhao Song
  • Meteorologists and Students: A resource for language grounding of geographical descriptors — Alejandro Ramos Soto, Ehud Reiter, Kees van Deemter, Jose Alonso and Albert Gatt
  • Cyclegen: Cyclic consistency based production review generator from attributes — Vasu Sharma, Harsh Sharma, Ankita Bishnu and Labhesh Patel
  • Automated Evaluation of Neural Personality-based Chatbots — Yujie Xing and Raquel Fernández

Demo presentations

  • Interactive health insight miner: an adaptive, semantic-based arroyo —Isabel Funke, Rim Helaoui and Aki Harma
  • Poem Auto – a Co-creative NLG Web Application for Poem Writing — Mika Hämäläinen
  • Japanese Advertising Slogan Generator using Case Frame and Discussion Vector — Kango Iwama and Yoshinobu Kano
  • Multi-Language Surface Realisation as Rest API based NLG Microservice — Andreas Madsack, Johanna Heininger, Nyamsuren Davaasambuu, Vitaliia Voronik, Michael Käufl and Robert Weißgraeber

(1) Upon multiple requests, we accept decided to **extend** the borderline for submissions with 1 week. The new deadline is July 16, 2018.

(2) The location of the primary INLG conference is known and exciting: it volition be organized in the conference center of the Koning Willem Two Stadion, the home of the Tilburg soccer squad. The briefing will start on Monday afternoon (November five), with the invited tutorial of Yoav Goldberg.

(3) The main conference will be preceded on Monday morning (Nov 5) by 3 workshops, and followed by two more workshop also equally a full mean solar day hackathon on Thursday (November viii), all organized at Tilburg University.  The list of workshops is:

Monday-morning, November 5, 2018 (Tilburg University)

  • 3rd Workshop on Computational Creativity in Language Generation (CC-NLG 2018)
  • Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)
  • Workshop on Adaptive NLG

Th (all day), Nov 8, 2018 (Tilburg University)

  • Workshop on Natural Linguistic communication Generation for Human–Robot Interaction
  • Workshop on Text accommodation

More information on the workshops will follow before long.

(1) Nosotros are proud to announce the invited speakers for INLG 2018:

  • Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel, who will give an invited tutorial on Neural NLG),
  • Lillian Lee (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA), and
  • Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).

(2) Please besides note that the online submission system is up and running hither.

Nosotros invite the submission of long and short papers, equally well as organization demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented equally oral talks or posters. [rescue_button url="https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/index.php/call-for-papers/" title="Call for papers" class="center" border_radius="3px"]Read on[/rescue_button]

For the tertiary time since its inception, the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) will this twelvemonth include independently organised workshops. These volition take identify afterwards or immediately prior to the master conference (November iv or viii).
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The 11th International Conference on Tongue Generation (INLG 2018) volition exist held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium. [rescue_button url="https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/index.php/programme/" championship="Telephone call for papers" class="center" border_radius="3px"]Read on[/rescue_button]