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<div class=""><b class="">11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation </b></div>
<div class="">Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018</div>
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<div class="">Website: <a href="https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/" class="">https://inlg2018.uvt.nl</a></div>
<div class="">Contact: <a href="mailto:inlg2018@uvt.nl" class="">inlg2018@uvt.nl</a></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">News</b></div>
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<div class="">We are proud to announce the <b class="">invited speakers</b> for INLG 2018:</div>
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<div class="">- Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel, who will give an invited tutorial on Neural NLG),</div>
<div class="">- Lillian Lee (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA), and</div>
<div class="">- Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).</div>
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<div class="">Please also note that the <b class="">online submission system</b> is up and running <a href="https://www.softconf.com/i/inlg2018/" class="">here</a>.</div>
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<div class="">The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after <a href="http://emnlp2018.org/" class="">EMNLP 2018</a>, organised
in nearby Brussels, Belgium.</div>
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<div class="">INLG 2018 is organised by the <a href="https://tulp.uvt.nl/" class="">Tilburg University Language Production (TULP)</a> research group, part of the <a href="https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/humanities/departments/dcc/" class="">Department
of Communication and Cognition (DCC)</a> of the <a href="https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/humanities/" class="">Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD)</a> The event is organised under the auspices of the <a href="https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN" class="">Special
Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN)</a> of the <a href="https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/Main_Page" class="">Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)</a>. INLG 2018 is also endorsed by the <a href="https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php" class="">International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA)</a>.</div>
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<div class="">We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers
will be presented as oral talks or posters.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Important dates</b></div>
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<div class="">- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018</div>
<div class="">- Notification: September 7, 2018</div>
<div class="">- Camera ready: October 1, 2018</div>
<div class="">- INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018</div>
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<div class="">All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Topics</b></div>
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<div class="">INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks: </div>
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<div class="">(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by <a href="https://www.nwo.nl/" class="">The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO</a>), and </div>
<div class="">(2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with <a href="https://flow.ai/" class="">flow.ai</a>). </div>
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<div class="">General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<div class="">- Affect/emotion generation</div>
<div class="">- Applications for people with disabilities</div>
<div class="">- Cognitive modelling of language production</div>
<div class="">- Content and text planning</div>
<div class="">- Corpora for NLG</div>
<div class="">- Deep learning models for NLG</div>
<div class="">- Evaluation of NLG systems</div>
<div class="">- Grounded language generation</div>
<div class="">- Lexicalisation</div>
<div class="">- Multimedia and multimodality in generation</div>
<div class="">- Storytelling and narrative generation</div>
<div class="">- NLG and accessibility</div>
<div class="">- NLG in dialogue</div>
<div class="">- NLG for embodied agents and robots</div>
<div class="">- NLG for real-world applications</div>
<div class="">- Paraphrasing and Summarisation</div>
<div class="">- Personalisation and variation in text</div>
<div class="">- Referring expression generation</div>
<div class="">- Resources for NLG</div>
<div class="">- Surface realisation</div>
<div class="">- Systems architecture</div>
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<div class="">A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Submissions & Format</b></div>
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<div class="">Submissions should follow the new <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines" class="">ACL Author Guidelines</a> and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing.
ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX <a href="http://acl2018.org/call-for-papers/" class="">style files</a> and Microsoft Word <a href="http://acl2018.org/call-for-papers/" class="">templates</a> Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference
management system: <a href="https://www.softconf.com/i/inlg2018/" class="">https://www.softconf.com/i/inlg2018/</a>.</div>
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<div class="">Three kinds of papers can be submitted:</div>
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<div class="">- <u class="">Long papers</u> are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.</div>
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<div class="">- <u class="">Short papers</u> are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.</div>
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<div class="">- <u class="">Demo papers</u> should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo
of their system during INLG 2018.</div>
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<div class="">All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission
to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the "Acknowledgements" section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can
not present the same paper twice.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Program chairs</b></div>
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<div class="">- Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Martijn Goudbeek (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Albert Gatt (Malta University, Malta)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Workshop & Challenges chairs</b></div>
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<div class="">- Sina Zarrieß (Bielefeld University, Germany)</div>
<div class="">- Mariët Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Local organising committee</b></div>
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<div class="">- Nadine Braun (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Thiago Castro Ferreira, (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Ruud Koolen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Chris van der Lee (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Lauraine de Lima (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Fons Maes (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Charlotte Out (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Steffen Pauws (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Ruben Vromans (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Bram Willemsen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Jan de Wit (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Hackathon organisation</b></div>
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<div class="">- Yayi Sripada (University of Aberdeen/Arria NLG, UK)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Generation challenges special session organisation</b></div>
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<div class="">- Ondrej Dusek (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Program Committee</b></div>
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<div class="">- Jose Alonso (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Alberto Bugarín Diz (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Thiago Castro Ferreira (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)</div>
<div class="">- Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Nikos Engonopoulos (University of Saarland, Germany)</div>
<div class="">- Claire Gardent (LORIA-CNRS, France)</div>
<div class="">- Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta)</div>
<div class="">- Pablo Gervás (UCM, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Dimitra Gkatzia (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Martijn Goudbeek (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Helen Hastie (Heriot Watt University, UK)</div>
<div class="">- David M. Howcroft (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)</div>
<div class="">- Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)</div>
<div class="">- Ioannis Konstas (University of Washington, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Cyril Labbe (Université Joseph Fourier, France)</div>
<div class="">- Gerasimos Lampouras (University of Sheffield, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada)</div>
<div class="">- Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Saad Mahamood (Arria NLG, UK)</div>
<div class="">- David McDonald (SIFT, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Emiel van Miltenburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Diego Moussallem (Universität Leipzig, Germany)</div>
<div class="">- Simon Mille (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Steffen Pauws (Philips Research/Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Laura Perez-Beltrachini (LORIA-CNRS, France)</div>
<div class="">- Paul Piwek (The Open University, UK)</div>
<div class="">- François Portet (University Grenoble, France)</div>
<div class="">- Alejandro Ramos Soto (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Ehud Reiter (Arria NLG/University of Aberdeen, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Daniel Sanchez (University of Granada, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- David Schlangen (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)</div>
<div class="">- Advaith Siddharthan (The Open University, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Somayajulu Sripada (University of Aberdeen/Arria NLG, UK)</div>
<div class="">- Kristina Striegnitz (Union College, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Marc Tanti (University of Malta, Malta)</div>
<div class="">- Mariët Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Kees van Deemter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Ielka van der Sluis (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Marilyn Walker (UC Santa Cruz, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Leo Wanner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</div>
<div class="">- Michael White (Ohio State University, USA)</div>
<div class="">- Sander Wubben (Flow.ai/Tilburg University, The Netherlands)</div>
<div class="">- Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)</div>
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