Conference Program

There will be two invited talks during the conference:

Monday, 1st July

Summarization Session
2-3pm Invited Talk:
Daniel Marcu (Information Sciences Institute)
3-3:30pm "Corpus-trained Text Generation for Summarization"
Min-Yen Kan, Kathleen McKeown
3:30-4pm "The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks"
Hal Daume III, Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde-Geary, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada

Realization Session
4:30-5pm "An Empirical Verification of Coverage and Correctness for a General-Purpose Sentence Generator"
Irene Langkilde-Geary
5-5:30pm "Combining Machine Learning and Rule-based Approaches in Spanish and Japanese Sentence Realization"
Maite Melero, Takako Aikawa, Lee Schwartz
5:30-6pm "An Overview of Amalgam: A Machine-learned Generation Module"
Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, Robert Moore
6-6:30pm "A Complete, Efficient Sentence-Realization Algorithm for Unification Grammar"
Robert Moore

Content Planning Session I
8.30-9pm "Stochastic Text Structuring Using the Principle of Continuity"
Nikiforos Karamanis, Hisar Maruli Manurung
9-9.30pm "Content Planner Construction via Evolutionary Algorithms and a Corpus-based Fitness Function"
Pablo Duboue, Kathleen McKeown
9.30-10pm "Should Corpora Texts Be Gold Standards for NLG?"
Ehud Reiter, Somayajulu Sripada

Tuesday, 2nd July

Student Session I
9-9:25am "Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in NLG"
Cassandre Creswell
9:25-9:50am "Driving Multilingual Sentence Generation with Lexico-grammatical Resources"
Raymond Kozlowski
9:50-10:15am "Planning Proof Content for Communicating Induction"
Amanda Holland-Minkley

Student Session II
10:45-11:10am "Towards Balancing Conciseness, Readability and Salience: an Integrated Architecture"
Bruce Eddy
11:10am-11.35am "Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation"
Nizar Habash

Note We acknowledge the work of one further student author, who is unable to obtain a US visa:
"Use of Description Logic and SDRT in an NLG System"
Adil El Ghali

Speech Session I
2:30-3pm "Designing a Speech Corpus for Instance-based Spoken Language Generation"
Shimei Pan, Wubin Weng
3-3:30pm "Towards Emotional Variation in Speech-Based Natural Language Generation"
Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy
3:30-4pm "From Discourse Plans to Believable Behavior Generation"
Berardina De Carolis, Valeria Carofiglio, Catherine Pelachoud
4-4:30pm "Speech-Plans: Generating Evaluative Responses in Spoken Dialogue"
Marilyn Walker, Steven Whittaker, Amanda Stent, Johanna Moore, Michael Johnston, Gunaranjan Vasireddy

Speech Session II
8:30-9:30pm Invited Talk:
Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)

Wednesday, 3 July

Sentence Planning Session
8:30-9am "Aggregation with Strong Regularities and Alternatives"
Helmut Horacek
9-9:30am "Generating Easy References: the Case of Document Deixis"
Ivandre Paraboni, Kees van Deemter
9:30-10am "The DIAG experiments: Natural Language Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems"
Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass, Michael Trolio

Content Planning Session II
10:30-11 "An Evaluation of Procedural Instructional Text"
Nathalie Colineau, Cecile Paris, Keith Vander Linden
11-11:30 "A Constraint-Based Approach for Cooperative Information-Seeking Dialogue"
Yan Qu, Nancy Green
11:30-12 "What is NLG?"
Roger Evans, Paul Piwek, Lynne Cahill

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