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Using Corpora for NLG: Language
Generation and Machine Translation
(UCNLG+MT) is a pre-conference workshop at
MT
Summit XI. It will be held in
Copenhagen on 11 September 2007.
Workshop aims
There are many branches of NLP research where language is generated
(MT, summarisation, human-computer dialogue, data-to-text generation,
document authoring, etc.). However, for the most part, these form
separate research communities and the field called "Natural Language
Generation (NLG)" is to some degree isolated from many of them.
The UCNLG workshops have the general aims
- to provide a forum for reporting and discussing data-based methods
for generating language;
- to open up the NLG research field to neighbouring areas in NLP and
to foster cross-fertilisation between these research fields; and
- to promote the sharing of data in NLG and the use of data-based
methods of evaluation.
The special theme of this second UCNLG workshop is Language Generation
and MT. Target language generation is typically given less attention
than other aspects of MT, such as evaluation, source language analysis
and transfer. Recently there has been increasing interest in
combining linguistic knowledge with statistical MT. Conversely, NLG --
where symbolic approaches have long dominated -- has seen increasing
interest in probabilistic methods. With this special theme, would like
to explore crossover points and potential for cross-fertilisation
between MT and NLG.
The workshop also continues from
UCNLG'05 in its general focus on
data-based methods for language generation
and evaluation. Please see the Call for
Papers for further details.
Workshop programme
We have now added links to the presentation slides to the programme below.
| 08:45 | Welcome and Introduction |
Language Generation Session
| 09:00 | Towards Broad Coverage Surface Realization with
CCG [Slides] |
| Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Scott
Martin |
| 09:30 | Declarative Syntactic Processing of Natural
Language Using Concurrent Constraint Programming
and Probabilistic Dependency Modeling [Slides] |
| Irene Langkilde-Geary |
| 09:50 | Generalizing Syntactic Collocates for Creative
Language Generation [Slides] |
| David Hardcastle |
| 10:10 | Induction and Evaluation of Word Order Rules
Using Corpora Based on the Two Concepts of
Topological Models [Slides] |
| Bernd Bohnet |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
Shared Task Session
| 10:50 | Introduction to the Attribute Selection for GRE
Challenge [Slides] |
| Anja Belz |
| 11:05 | Presentations of Systems submitted to Challenge |
| Bernd Bohnet [Slides] |
| Raquel Herv￬ Pablo Gerv￠[Slides] |
| John Kelleher [Slides] |
| Advaith Siddharthan, Ann Copestake |
| Mariet Theune, Pascal Touset, Jette Viethen,
Emiel Krahmer [Slides] |
| Philipp Spanger, Takahiro Kurosawa, Takenobu
Tokunaga [Slides] |
| 11:35 | Anja Belz: Evaluation Results [Slides] |
Machine Translation Session
| 12:00 | Method of Selecting Training Sets to Build
Compact and Efficient Statistical Language Model |
| Keiji Yasuda, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro
Sumita |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Machine Translation Session (cont.)
| 13:30 | Automatic Evaluation of Generation and Parsing
for Machine Translation with Automatically
Acquired Transfer Rules [Slides] |
| Yvette Graham, Deirdre Hogan, Josef van
Genabith |
| 14:00 | A Probabilistic Approach to Linguistic Analysis
in Machine Translation Output Evaluation [Slides] |
| Olivier Gouirand |
INVITED TALK
| 14:20 | "Automatic Language Translation Generation
Help Needs Badly" [Slides] |
| Kevin Knight |
| 15:10 | Coffee/Tea Break |
Discussion Session on Language Generation and Machine Translation
| 15:30 | Introduction and Aims |
| 15:40 | Discussion Starter Presentations |
| Andrei Popescu-Belis [Slides] |
| Nizar Habash [Slides] |
| Gregor Thurmair |
| Sebastian Varges [Slides] |
| 17:00 | Wrapping up |
Key workshop facts
Invited speaker:
Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Discussion Session on NLG+MT:
Submission of extended abstracts invited, for details see Call for Papers.
Programme committee:
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T, USA
Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Irene Langkilde-Geary, University of Brighton, UK
Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Power, Open University, UK
Flo Reeder, The Mitre Organisation, USA
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
Amanda Stent, SUNY, USA
Michael Strube, EML Research, Germany
Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mike White, Ohio State University, USA
Important dates
| 15 June: | Extended submission deadline for workshop papers
| | 29 June: | Notification of acceptance to authors of workshop papers
| | 01 July: | Submission deadline for extended abstracts for
| | | Discussion Session
| | 09 July: | Notification of acceptance to authors of extended
| | | abstracts for Discussion Session
| | 20 July: | Camera-ready copy from all authors
| | 11 September: | UCNLG+MT in Copenhagen
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