Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Workshop on
Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation

Anja Belz and Sebastian Varges (eds)

Contents
Preface			ii
Organisation			ii
Automatic Evaluation of Referring Expression Generation Using Corpora			1
Surabhi Gupta and Amanda Stent
Re-Creating Dialogues from a Corpus			7
Amy Isard, Carsten Brockmann and Jon Oberlander
A Review of Recent Corpus-based Methods for Evaluating Information Ordering
in Text Production			13
Nikiforos Karamanis and Chris Mellish
Using an Annotated Corpus as a Knowledge Source for Language Generation			19
Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube
The Penn Discourse TreeBank as a Resource for Natural Language Generation			25
Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki and Bonnie Webber
Statistically Generated Summary Sentences: A Preliminary Evaluation Using a
Dependency Relation Precision Metric			33
Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cécile Paris
Deriving Content Selection Rules from a Corpus of Non-naturally Occurring
Documents for a Novel NLG Application			41
Sandra Williams and Ehud Reiter
Building Surface Realizers Automatically From Corpora			49
Huayan Zhong and Amanda Stent
KEYNOTE PAPER: Constraint programming as a Whiteboard Architecture for Probabilistic NLG
Irene Langkilde-Geary			55