Overview

For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to natural language generation are solicited. As always, the conference will be open to all submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. We are also encouraging submissions on two featured topics: natural language generation in speech-based systems and natural language generation in document summarization. There will be separate sessions and invited speakers on these two topics, and the program committee will include researchers from these areas who can contribute a unique perspective to research on generation. All submissions, whether on one of the featured topics or not, will be handled by the same program committee. A separate track will be offered for Student Papers.

The INLG'02 program committee invites papers describing original research on but not limited to the following topics:

• Featured topic: Generation in speech-based systems, including:
  • Dialog management and utterance planning in dialog systems
  • Models of intonation in generation
  • Concept-to-speech generation
  • Difference between spoken and written language generation
  • Evaluation of generation in speech-based systems
  • Applications
  This topic does NOT include papers exclusively on speech synthesis; INLG'02 is not an appropriate venue for such papers.
• Featured topic: Generation and document summarization, including:
  • Content selection and integration for summarization
  • Sentence selection and generation models of paraphrase and coherence
  • Evaluation
  • Applications
• Multimodal and multimedia generation
• Multilingual generation
• Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content selection and organization
• Sentence realization, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence aggregation, lexical choice
• Architecture of generators
• Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization
• User-customized generation and summarization
• Psychological modeling of discourse production
• Learning methods for generation
• Evaluation methodologies for generation
• All applications of generation, including areas such as data summarization, web mining, knowledge management, and mobile computing

We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel tracks. There will be no separate workshops at the conference; however, there may be generation-related workshops at ACL. Simultaneous submission of a paper to INLG'02 and other conferences will be permitted, provided that it is clearly marked. However, papers presented at INLG'02 can only appear in the INLG'02 proceedings. Submission to the main session should describe completed work. Submission to the student session may describe work in progress.