TEXT-TO-TEXT 2011 - Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation

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Category TEXT-TO-TEXT 2011

Deadline: April 01, 2011 | Date: June 24, 2011

Venue/Country: Oregon, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-01-31 23:23:51 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Text-To-Text Generation

Co-located with ACL-HLT 2011 in Portland, OR, 24 June 2011

Call for papers

The ability to perform monolingual text-to-text generation is an important step in solving many natural language processing problems. For example, when generating novel text at the sentence-level, abstractive summarization systems may need to compress sentences or fuse multiple sentences together; the evaluation of translation systems may require additional paraphrases to use as reference gold standards; and answers to questions may need to be generated automatically from extracted sentences.

The community of researchers examining monolingual text-to-text generation has grown steadily in recent years, introducing the need for a focused venue to communicate results in this area. As tools and approaches are developed, it is important that our community shares its experiences and its resources.

This workshop will solicit work describing the use of data-oriented text-to-text generation methods, where the generation process begins with some source text as input. As such, it complements existing events such as GenChal'11 at ENLG 2011, which will have a focus on data-to-text surface realisation methods.

This year, the workshop will focus on work describing the generation of novel sentences, with preference given to submissions that describe how the proposed text-to-text generation model has an impact on content selection and/or issues of grammaticality at the sentence level. Submissions can describe work-in-progress, resources, position papers as well as traditional unpublished work.

Suggested topics for this workshop include (but are not limited to):

Sentence fusion

Sentence compression

Sentence-level paraphrase generation

Answer generation for questions

Sentence simplification

Evaluating novel sentence generation

Semantics and world knowledge for sentence generation

Content planning issues in text-to-text generation

Incorporating user preferences for text-to-text generation

Discourse-level constraints for novel sentence generation

Descriptions of new monolingual text-to-text generation problems

Applications of monolingual text-to-text generation

List of useful resources.

Submit a paper

TBA

Important dates

Dec 18 Workshop CFP

Apr 01 Paper due date

Apr 25 Notification of acceptance

May 06 Camera-ready deadline

Jun 24 Workshop

Program & steering committee

Anja Belz

Bernd Bohnet

Aoife Cahill

Chris Callison-Burch

Robert Dale

Mark Dras

Michel Galley

Kevin Knight

Emiel Krahmer

Mirella Lapata

Nitin Madnani

Erwin Marsi

Ryan McDonald

Cécile Paris

Michael Strube

Michael White

David Zajic

Steering committee:

Chris Callison-Burch

Mirella Lapata

Erwin Marsi

Organizers & contact information

Katja Filippova (katjaf at google dot com)

Stephen Wan (first name dot last name at csiro dot au)

Useful resources

Links to compression and paraphrase corpora in English.

Paraphrase resources (English).

Microsoft paraphrase corpus.

Paraphrase data sets (English).

Dutch fusion data.

A German comparable corpus of biographies.

Sets of related sentences from reviews (English).

Parallel monolingual treebank for Dutch.