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. Frequently co-occurring keywords include: text generation, large language models (LLMs), chatbots.
Good sources to learn about NLG include:
- Only a little time?
- Ehud Reiter. 2018. "How do I Learn about NLG?". Blogpost.
- * Wikipedia article on NLG
- A bit more time?
- Albert Gatt and Emiel Krahmer. 2018. "Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 61:65–170.
- Time enough to read a book?
- Ehud Reiter. 2025. Natural Language Generation. Springer. (Also available on arXiv)
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 :)
- 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.