Generation Challenges 2010

Sponsored by SIGGEN and in conjunction with INLG 2010.

In order to continue to provide a common forum for the expanding range of shared-task activities involving language generation, we are organising Generation Challenges 2010.

Shared Tasks

The following tasks will run as part of GenChal'10:

1. The GIVE-2 Challenge (Koller et al.): Generation of natural-language instructions to aid human task-solving in a virtual environment; GIVE-2 will have virtual worlds that permit continuous moves (rather than discrete steps as in GIVE-1). Call for Participation has been posted.
2. Post-processing referring expressions in extractive summaries (Belz et al.): based on GREC-NEG and DUC data. Call for Participation has been posted.
3. Question Generation (Rus, Graesser et al.): Call for Participation in preparation.

In addition, several more tasks are in preparation and will be presented for discussion at the GenChal'10 session at INLG'10 (with a view to running them as tasks in 2011):

1. Working group on shared task in surface realisation using Wall Street Journal corpus (Belz, Hogan, van Genabith, White): see SR Task website for up to date details.
2. Working group on shared task in referring expression generation in instructional and cooperative dialogues.

Helping Our Own Task (Dale and Kilgariff): Text correction, in particular of academic articles written by non-native speakers. See HOO website for up to date details.

Dates

2 August 2009	Submission of task proposals
23 May 2010	Submission of camera-ready reports
7-9 July 2010	INLG'10

Generation Challenges Steering Committee

• Anja Belz, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK
• Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
• Albert Gatt, University of Malta and Unversity of Aberdeen, UK
• Kevin Knight, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
• Alexander Koller, Saarland University, Germany
• Chris Mellish, Aberdeen University, UK
• Johanna Moore, Edinburgh University, UK
• Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University, USA
• Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA

Organisation

• Anja Belz, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK
• Albert Gatt, University of Malta and University of Aberdeen, UK
• Alexander Koller, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany
• Eric Kow, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK

GenChal'10 homepage: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/genchal10
GenChal'10 email:

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