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Wednesday 28 September
| Reception | 8h30 | Anne-Lise Charbonnier and Nicolas Alcaraz |
| Welcome | 9h15 | Claire Gardent and Kristina Striegnitz |
| Invited Talk | 9h30 | Oliver Lemon
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| Coffe Break | 10:30 - 11:00 | |
| ENLG Talks: Tailoring text to users | 11:00 - 11:30 | Advaith Siddharthan
Text Simplification using Typed Dependencies: A Comparison of the Robustness of Different Generation Strategies |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Saad Mahamood and Ehud Reiter
Generating Affective Natural Language for Parents of Neonatal Infants | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Rahul Sambaraju, Ehud Reiter, Robert Logie, Andy Mckinlay, Chris Mcvittie, Albert Gatt and Cindy Sykes.
What is in a text and what does it do: Qualitative Evaluations of an NLG system – the BT-Nurse – using content analysis and discourse analysis | |
| Lunch | 12:30 - 1:30 | |
| ENLG Talks: Referring expression generation | 1:30 - 2:00 | Christian Chiarcos
Evaluating Salience Metrics for the Context-Adequate Realization of Discourse Referents |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Henriette Viethen, Robert Dale and Markus Guhe
The Impact of Visual Context on the Content of Referring Expressions | |
| Coffe Break | 2:30 - 3:00 | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Ielka van der Sluis and Saturnino Luz
A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Production of Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Margaret Mitchell, Kees Van Deemter and Ehud Reiter
An Algorithm for Generating Size Modifiers | |
| Birds of a Feather sessions | 4:00 - 5:00 | Submit proposals to striegnk@union.edu by August 15 |
| SimpleNLG User Group Meeting | 4:00 - 5:00 | Organised by Ehud Reiter |
| Bowling and Drinks | 6:30 - 8:00 |
Thursday 29 September
| Invited Talk | 9h30 - 10:30 | Jeff Orkin
MIT Media Lab, USA |
| Coffe Break | 10:30 - 11:00 | |
| ENLG Talks: Knowledge representation and NLG: expressing semantic, rhetorical and temporal relations | 11:00 - 11:30 | Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Gerard Casamayor and Leo Wanner
Content selection from an ontology-based knowledge base for the generation of football summaries |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Richard Power
Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic content | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Albert Gatt and Francois Portet
If it may have happened before it happened, but not necessarily before | |
| Lunch | 12:30 - 1:30 | |
| Generation Challenge Talks and Posters | 1:30 - 1:40 | Generation Challenges Overview |
| 1:40 - 1:55 | Result Presentations: SR, HOO, GIVE | |
| 2:55 - 3:40 | Presentation of Planned Tasks: SR Spanish, Question Generation 2nd Edition, GRUVE | |
| 3:40 - 5:00 | Generation Challenges Poster Session (with coffee) | |
| City tour | 6:00 - 7:00 | Guided Tour in the Old Town |
| Banquet | 7:30 | In the Townhall Grands Salons |
Friday 30 September
| ENLG Talks: Optimizing task success in interactive systems | 9:30 - 10:00 | Verena Rieser, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon and Xingkun Liu
Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with real users |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Nina Dethlefs and Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Combining Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Networks for Natural Language Generation in Situated Dialogue | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Konstantina Garoufi and Alexander Koller
Combining symbolic and corpus-based approaches for the generation of successful referring expressions | |
| ENLG Posters | 11:00 - 12:30 | |
| Marcel Bollmann
Adapting SimpleNLG to German | ||
| Laurence Danlos, Frédéric Meunier and Vanessa Combet
EasyText : an Operational NLG System | ||
| Valerio Basile and Johan Bos
Towards Generating Text from Discourse Representation Structures | ||
| Thomas Bouttaz, Edoardo Pignotti, Chris Mellish and Peter Edwards
A Policy-Based Approach to Context Dependent Natural Language Generation | ||
| Sandra Williams, Allan Third and Richard Power
Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation | ||
| Diana Trandabat
Using semantic roles to improve summaries | ||
| Alessandro Mazzei
Building a Generator for Italian Sign Language | ||
| Andrew Walker, Advaith Siddharthan and Andrew Starkey
Investigation into Human Preference between Common and Unambiguous Lexical Substitutions | ||
| Saturnino Luz and Ielka Van Der Sluis
Production of Demonstratives in Dutch, English and Portuguese Dialogues | ||
| Fadi Abu Sheikha and Diana Inkpen. Generation of Formal and Informal Sentences | ||
| Michael White
Glue Rules for Robust Chart Realization | ||
| Francois Lareau, Mark Dras and Robert Dale
Detecting Interesting Event Sequences for Sports Reporting | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 - 1:30 | |
| Invited Talk | 1:30 - 2:30 | Johanna Moore
University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Coffe Break | 2:30 - 3:00 | |
| Generation Challenge | 3:00 - 5:00 | Working Groups (SR,HOO,GIVE and GRUVE) |
| Concluding Remarks | 5:00 - 5:15 | The END |
