SIGGEN
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. Good sources to learn about NLG include
- How do I Learn about NLG?
- Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation
- Wikipedia article on NLG
Resources
Natural Language Generation Portal
Upcoming Events
We are glad to announce that INLG 2020 will be held in Dublin (Ireland).
More details about INLG2020 are coming soon, but now it is time to think about submissions for INLG 2019 (submission deadline: 1 July 2019)
Tokyo, Japan, 29 October - 1 November 2019. Follow @INLG2019 on Twitter for up-to-date information and announcements.
Other related events are:
- NAACL-HLT 2019 to be held in Minneapolis, USA, June 2 - 7. With NeuralGen 2019 as co-located event.
- ACL 2019 to be held in Florence, Italy, July 28 - August 2
- EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 to be held in Hong Kong, China, November 3 - 7. It will include MSR19 among other events.
Mailing List
Joining the mailing list:
- The SIGGEN mailing list is currently going through a transition.
- To sign up, view preferences, change preferences, or unsubscribe, go to:
- 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
INLG 2018 was held at Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 Novemeber 2018. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology
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INLG 2017 was held at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology
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INLG 2016 was held at Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016. Conference proceedings are published at ACL Anthology
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Board
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:
- Ehud Reiter (mail) Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen and also Chief Scientist of Arria NLG. (chair)
- elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
- elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
- Amanda Stent (mail), Bloomberg LP (treasurer)
- elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
- Jose M. Alonso ([1]) University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (secretary)
- elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
- Amanda Curry (mail) School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University (student member)
- elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2020
To contact the entire board, please use the email alias: siggen-board (ta) aclweb (dot) org.