Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A challenge and evaluation testbed for NLG

Donna Byron and Alexander Koller and Jon Oberlander and Laura Stoia and Kristina Striegnitz

Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington, 2007.

In this short position paper, we propose the task of generating instructions in a virtual environment as a challenge for the field of NLG. Key advantages of this scenario are that it is theory-neutral, scalable, and can be evaluated well.

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BibTex Entry

@InProceedings{ByrKolObeStoStr07, 
   author = {Donna Byron and Alexander Koller and Jon Oberlander and Laura Stoia
and Kristina Striegnitz}, 
   title  = {Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A challenge and evaluation testbed for NLG}, 
   year   = 2007, 
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation
in Natural Language Generation}, 
   address = {Arlington} 
} 

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