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== What is Natural Language 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.   Good sources to learn about NLG include
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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.
* [https://ehudreiter.com/2018/01/16/learn-about-nlg/ How do I Learn about NLG?]
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* [https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11173 Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation]
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Good sources to learn about NLG include:
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_generation Wikipedia article on NLG]
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* Only a little time?
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** Ehud Reiter. 2018. "[https://ehudreiter.com/2018/01/16/learn-about-nlg/ How do I Learn about NLG?]". Blogpost.
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** * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_generation Wikipedia article on NLG]
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* A bit more time?
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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.
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* Time enough to read a book?
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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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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.)
  
 
== NLG Data Sets and Other Resources ==
 
== NLG Data Sets and Other Resources ==
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== Upcoming Events ==
 
== Upcoming Events ==
  
[https://inlgmeeting.github.io/index.html INLG 2022] will be hosted by Colby College, Maine, USA on 18-22 July. It will be an hybrid conference. Submission deadline is 15 March.
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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)
  
SIGGEN is starting a monthly 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 email siggen-board@aclweb.org
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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>.
  
 
== Mailing List ==
 
== Mailing List ==
 
=== Joining the mailing list: ===
 
=== Joining the mailing list: ===
  
:The SIGGEN mailing list is currently going through a transition.
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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 :)
:To sign up, view preferences, change preferences, or unsubscribe, go to:  
 
  
 
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== Recent Events ==
 
== Recent Events ==
  
[https://inlg2021.github.io INLG 2021] was held online (virtually from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) in September 2021. Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/2021.inlg-1/ ACL Anthology]
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You can see all previous events at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/events.html Previous related events]
 
 
2021 SIGGEN supported events:
 
* [https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop GEM] was held in August 2021. Proceedings available in the [https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.gem-1/ ACL Anthology].
 
 
 
Endorsed events:
 
* [https://pragma.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/workshopINLG2020/ 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning] ([ proceedings])
 
* [https://sites.google.com/view/nl4xai2020 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)] ([ proceedings])
 
* [https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2020/ 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)] ([ proceedings])
 
* [https://evalnlg-workshop.github.io/ 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation] ([ proceedings])
 
* [https://webnlg-challenge.loria.fr/workshop_2020/ 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web] ([ proceedings])
 
 
 
[https://www.inlg2020.org/ INLG 2020] was held online (virtually from Dublin City University, DCU, in Dublin Ireland, 15-18 December, 2020). Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/2020.inlg-1/ ACL Anthology]
 
 
 
2020 SIGGEN supported events:
 
* [http://taln.upf.edu/pages/msr2020-ws/ MSR2020 - Third Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation] (COLING workshop)
 
* [https://intellang.github.io/ IntelLanG - Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation] (ECAI workshop)
 
 
 
[https://www.inlg2019.com/ INLG 2019] was held in Tokyo, Japan, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019. Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W19-86/ ACL Anthology]
 
 
 
Endorsed events:
 
* [https://sites.google.com/view/dsnnlg2019/ 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG] ([https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W19-81/  proceedings])
 
* [https://sites.google.com/view/nl4xai2019/ 1st Workshop on  Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence] ([https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W19-84/ proceedings])
 
* [https://aiwolfdial.kanolab.net/ The 1st International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System] ([https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W19-83/ proceedings])
 
* [http://www.ccnlg.org/ The 4th Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation] ([http://www.ccnlg.org/index.php/home/programme/ proceedings])
 
* [http://taln.upf.edu/pages/msr2019-ws/ The Second Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization (MSR 2019)] ([https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/D19-63/ proceedings])
 
 
 
 
 
[https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/ INLG 2018] was held at Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 November 2018. Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W18-65/ ACL Anthology]
 
 
 
Endorsed events:
 
 
 
* [http://www.ccnlg.org/ CC-NLG 2018] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-3rd-workshop-on-computational-creativity-in-natural-language-generation-cc-nlg-2018 Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [https://sites.google.com/view/2is-nlg2018 2IS&NLG 2018] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-workshop-on-intelligent-interactive-systems-and-language-generation-2is-nlg Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2018/organisation/ NLG4HRI 2018] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-workshop-on-nlg-for-human-robot-interaction Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [https://www.ida.liu.se/~evere22/ATA-18/ ATA 2018] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-1st-workshop-on-automatic-text-adaptation-ata Workshop Proceedings])
 
* [http://taln.upf.edu/pages/msr2018-ws/ Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization (MSR 2018)] ([https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W18-36/ proceedings])
 
 
 
 
 
[https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/ INLG 2017] was held at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017. Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W17-35/ ACL Anthology]
 
 
 
Endorsed events:
 
 
 
* [http://www.ccnlg.org/index.php/cc-nlg-2017/ CC-NLG 2017] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-workshop-on-computational-creativity-in-natural-language-generation-cc-nlg-2017 Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [http://www.nooj-association.org/media/k2/attachments/events/LiRANLG.htm#programme LiRA-NLG 2017] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-linguistic-resources-for-automatic-natural-language-generation-lira-nlg Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [https://sites.google.com/site/workshoprst2017/schedule RST 2017] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-6th-workshop-on-recent-advances-in-rst-and-related-formalisms Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [http://xci2017.arg.tech/index.php/schedule/ XCI 2017] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-1st-workshop-on-explainable-computational-intelligence-xci-2017 Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
 
 
[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/ INLG 2016] was held at Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016. Conference proceedings are published in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W16-66/ ACL Anthology]
 
 
 
Endorsed events:
 
 
 
* [http://webprojects.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/mpurver/ccnlg/ CC-NLG 2016] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-inlg-2016-workshop-on-computational-creativity-in-natural-language-generation Workshop Proceedings])
 
 
 
* [https://webnlg2016.sciencesconf.org/ WebNLG 2016] ([https://aclanthology.info/volumes/proceedings-of-the-2nd-international-workshop-on-natural-language-generation-and-the-semantic-web-webnlg-2016 Workshop Proceedings])
 
  
 
== Board ==
 
== Board ==
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:
 
 
*[https://ehudreiter.com/ Ehud Reiter] ([mailto:e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk mail]) [https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/e.reiter/ Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen] and also Chief Scientist of [https://www.arria.com Arria NLG] ([mailto:siggen-chair(ta)aclweb(dot)org chair])
 
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
 
*[https://citius.usc.es/v/jose-maria-alonso-moral Jose M. Alonso] ([mailto:josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es mail]) [https://citius.usc.es/ CiTIUS, University of Santiago de Compostela], Spain
 
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
 
*[https://www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl/ Emiel van Miltenburg] ([mailto:c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu mail]) [https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ticc Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University], The Netherlands (treasurer)
 
:elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2024
 
*[http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/?q=members/raquelhervas Raquel Hervás] ([mailto:raquelhb@fdi.ucm.es mail]) [https://www.ucm.es/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid], Spain (secretary)
 
:elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2024
 
*[https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/students/miruna-adriana-clinciu Miruna-Adriana Clinciu] ([mailto:mc191@hw.ac.uk mail]) [https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/ Edinburgh Centre of Robotics], Scotland, UK (student member)
 
:elected in December 2020 for the period from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2022
 
  
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You can see the current SIGGEN board members at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/information.html SIGGEN-BOARD].
  
To contact the entire board, please use the email alias: <u>'''siggen-board (at) aclweb (dot) org'''</u>.
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== [https://inlgmeeting.org/ Website ] ==
  
== [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/sigs/siggen/  Workshop Proceedings ] ==
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== [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/sigs/siggen/  Conference and workshop Proceedings ] ==
  
 
== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
 
== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
 
== [[SIGGEN: Constitution|Constitution]] ==
 
== [[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