Natural Language Generation
Subtitle: Third International Conference, INLG 2004, Brockenhurst, UK, July 14-16, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Anja Belz (Editor); Roger Evans (Editor); Paul Piwek (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9783540223405
Subjects: Natural language & machine translation; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computers; Networking - General; Natural language processing (Computer science); Congresses; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computer Science; Logic; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; automatic language generation; computational linguistics; dialogue generation; human language production; machine learning; multimodal generation; natural language generation; Congráes; Traitement automatique des langues naturelles
First sentence: Unlike most Natural Language Generation programs that run on serial, digital computers, human speakers are occasionally distracted while performing a natural language generation task.
Description: The Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004) was held from 14th to 16th July 2004 at Careys Manor, Brockenhurst, UK. Supported by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special - terest Group on Generation, the conference continued a twenty-year tradition of biennial international meetings on research into natural language generation. Recent conference venues have included Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (INLG 2000) and New York, USA (INLG 2002). It was our pleasure to invite the thriving and friendly NLG research community to the beautiful New Forest in the south of England for INLG 2004. INLG is the leading international conference in the ?eld of natural language generation. It provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of original research on all aspects of the generation of language, including psychological modelling of human language production as well as computational approaches to the automatic generation of language. This volume includes a paper by the keynote speaker, Ardi Roelofs of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholingu- tics and the F. C. Donders Centre for CognitiveNeuroimaging,18 regular papers reportingthelatestresearchresultsanddirections,and4studentpapersdescr- ing doctoral work in progress. These papers reveal a particular concentration of current research e?ort on statistical and machine learning methods, on referring expressions, and on variation in surface realisation. The papers were selected from 46 submissions from all over the world (27 from Europe, 13 from North America, 6 from elsewhere), which were subjected to a rigorous double-blind reviewing process undertaken by our hard-working programme committee.