SIGGEN

ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

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.

Active topics of interest include:

• Discourse models, content planning.
• Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.
• Architecture of generators.
• Lexical choice.
• Psychological modelling of discourse production.
• Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.
• Multilingual or multi-modal generation.
• Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).
• Learning methods.
• Evaluation of generation results.

Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:

• Grammar theory
• Statistical methods
• Speech synthesis
• Psycholinguistics
• Neuroscience
• Philosophy

Upcoming Events

INLG 2019 will be in Tokyo, probably at the end of Oct or beginning of Nov (just before EMNLP). Follow @INLG2019 on Twitter for up-to-date information and announcements.

Recent Events

INLG 2018

Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 Novemeber 2018

INLG 2017

Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017

INLG 2016

Edinburg, UK, 5-8 September 2016

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:

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.

Board

The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:

• Ehud Reiter (mail) Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen. chair)

elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022

• Dimitra Gkatzia (mail) School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh.

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.

Resources

Natural Language Generation Portal