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Active topics of interest include:
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== What is Natural Language Generation? ==
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Natural language ''generation'' (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc, of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Frequently co-occurring keywords include: text generation, large language models (LLMs), chatbots.
<li>Discourse models, content planning.</li>
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<li>Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.</li>
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Good sources to learn about NLG include:
<li>Architecture of generators.</li>
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<li>Lexical choice.</li>
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* Only a little time?
<li>Psychological modelling of discourse production.</li>
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** Ehud Reiter. 2018. "[https://ehudreiter.com/2018/01/16/learn-about-nlg/ How do I Learn about NLG?]". Blogpost.
<li>Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.</li>
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** * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_generation Wikipedia article on NLG]
<li>Multilingual or multi-modal generation.</li>
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* A bit more time?
<li>Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).</li>
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** Albert Gatt and Emiel Krahmer. 2018. "[https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11173 Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation]". ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'', 61:65–170.
<li>Learning methods.</li>
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* Time enough to read a book?
<li>Evaluation of generation results.</li>
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** Ehud Reiter. 2025. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68582-8 ''Natural Language Generation'']. Springer. (Also available on [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14437 arXiv])
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Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:
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The official site for SIGGEN is [https://www.inlgmeeting.org]. You can also follow us on [https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social Bluesky as @siggen.bsky.social] and [https://elk.zone/fediscience.org/@siggen_acl Mastodon as @siggen_acl@fediscience.org]. (Our legacy X/Twitter account receives updates a day or two later.)
<li>Grammar theory</li>
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<li>Statistical methods</li>
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== NLG Data Sets and Other Resources ==
<li>Speech synthesis</li>
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[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Resources]]
<li>Psycholinguistics</li>
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<li>Neuroscience</li>
 
<li>Philosophy</li>
 
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== Upcoming Events ==
 
== Upcoming Events ==
  
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Next INLG conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October to 2 November, 2025. CfP and conference website coming soon! (as of 2025-03-27)
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In addition, SIGGEN runs a regular [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/webinar.html webinar series]. We're looking for talks on anything of interest to SIGGEN/NLG community, including research, tutorials, and commercial projects.  If you have an idea for a webinar, please send an email to <u>'''siggen-board (ta) googlegroups (dot) com'''</u>.
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== Mailing List ==
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=== Joining the mailing list: ===
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Interested in becoming a member of SIGGEN? Join the mailing list! That's all you have to do to become a member, get the latest updates, and see what other NLG researchers have to share :)
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::'''[http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN]'''
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:If there are any issues, e-mail: <u>'''siggen-webmaster (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''</u>.
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=== Posting messages to the mailing list ===
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:Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias <u>'''siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''</u> to post e-mails to the list.
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== Recent Events ==
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You can see all previous events at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/events.html Previous related events]
  
== Organization and Governance ==  
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== Board ==
  
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You can see the current SIGGEN board members at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/information.html SIGGEN-BOARD].
  
== Workshop Proceedings ==
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== [https://inlgmeeting.org/ Website ] ==
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<li style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.1em;margin-left:0.5em;">[http://www.siggen.org/proceedings.html#2014_0 Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2014)]</li>
 
<li style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.1em;margin-left:0.5em;">[http://www.siggen.org/proceedings.html#2014_1 Proceedings of the INLG 2014 and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session]</li>
 
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<li style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.1em;margin-left:0.5em;">[http://www.siggen.org/proceedings.html#2013_0 Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2013)]</li>
 
  
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== [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/sigs/siggen/  Conference and workshop Proceedings ] ==
  
== Related Workshop Proceedings ==
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== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
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== [[SIGGEN: Constitution|Constitution]] ==

Latest revision as of 11:20, 27 March 2025


ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

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Welcome to the home page of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation. SIGGEN [ˈsɪɡ.ʤɛn] is a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation.

What is Natural Language Generation?

Natural language generation (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc, of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Frequently co-occurring keywords include: text generation, large language models (LLMs), chatbots.

Good sources to learn about NLG include:


The official site for SIGGEN is [1]. You can also follow us on Bluesky as @siggen.bsky.social and Mastodon as @siggen_acl@fediscience.org. (Our legacy X/Twitter account receives updates a day or two later.)

NLG Data Sets and Other Resources

Natural Language Generation Resources

Upcoming Events

Next INLG conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October to 2 November, 2025. CfP and conference website coming soon! (as of 2025-03-27)

In addition, SIGGEN runs a regular webinar series. We're looking for talks on anything of interest to SIGGEN/NLG community, including research, tutorials, and commercial projects. If you have an idea for a webinar, please send an email to siggen-board (ta) googlegroups (dot) com.

Mailing List

Joining the mailing list:

Interested in becoming a member of SIGGEN? Join the mailing list! That's all you have to do to become a member, get the latest updates, and see what other NLG researchers have to share :)

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN
If there are any issues, e-mail: siggen-webmaster (ta) aclweb (dot) org.

Posting messages to the mailing list

Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org to post e-mails to the list.

Recent Events

You can see all previous events at Previous related events

Board

You can see the current SIGGEN board members at SIGGEN-BOARD.

Website

Conference and workshop Proceedings

Archive

Constitution