Corpora: IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation - 1st Call for Participation

From: Stephan Busemann (busemann@dfki.de)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 19:58:08 MET DST

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                         FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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                                    IMPACTS
                        in Natural Language Generation
                    NLG Between Technology and Applications

                               July 26-28, 2000
                     - immediately preceding COLING 2000 -

                      Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany

                       Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de

               IMPACTS is supported as a "SIGGEN NLG Workshop".
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    The IMPACTS workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the
    relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop
    addresses
    - researchers and developers in NLG,
    - current and potential users of NLG applications,
    - the interplay between statistical and rule-based NLG,
    - the reusability of modules within NLG systems.

    IMPACTS will be an ideal opportunity to discuss current issues and
    future prospects in Natural Language Generation with prominent
    researchers in the field, in the stimulating environment of Schloss
    Dagstuhl.

       THE WORKSHOP

    The workshop will consist of three types of sessions: presentation of
    submitted papers, an invited talk and several "burning issues" sessions.

    In order to implement our concept of a discussion-intensive event, we
    have invited six "burning issues" presentations taking up the main topic
    of the workshop. They will initiate interesting discussions within small
    groups (10-15 participants), and last two hours up to half a day. A
    plenum session will have reports of all discussions.

    Sessions already confirmed will be chaired by Eduard Hovy (ISI, Univ. of
    California, USA) and Chris Mellish (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK); more
    details can be found soon at the IMPACTS web site. The invited talk will
    be given by David McDonald (Brandeis University, USA).

       ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION

    Please register soon; as Schloss Dagstuhl has limited capacity,
    registration will be on a first come, first serve basis.

    All participants will stay at Schloss Dagstuhl. Cost is DM 450 (approx.
    US$ 210) per person, including full board, in single rooms with a
    shower. Please register directly with the organizers using the simple
    registration procedure outlined at http://impacts.dfki.de/#registration
    The early registration fee (before July 1, 2000) is DM 170 (approx. US$
    80) and includes a copy of the proceedings. Late registration will cost
    DM 220 (approx US$ 100).

       DATES

    IMPACTS will take place from July 26-28, 2000 at the International
    Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl
    (http://www.dagstuhl.de). Arrival is on Tuesday, July 25. The workshop
    will take until Friday, July 28, after lunch.

    IMPACTS immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in
    Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the
    Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29
    conveniently.

       PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
    Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair)
    Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair)
    Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University,
    Australia
    Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France
    Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
    Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
    Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA
    Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA
    David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA
    Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie
      University, Australia
    Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA
    Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
    Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK



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