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Workshop Program

Thursday, August 8, 2013
8:45–9:00	Opening Remarks
	Session 1: NLG from Semantic Representations and Knowledge Bases
	Chair: Claire Gardent
9:00–9:30	Aligning Formal Meaning Representations with Surface Strings for Wide-Coverage Text Generation Valerio Basile and Johan Bos
9:30–10:00	Exploiting Ontology Lexica for Generating Natural Language Texts from RDF Data Philipp Cimiano, Janna Lüker, David Nagel and Christina Unger
10:00–10:30	User-Controlled, Robust Natural Language Generation from an Evolving Knowledge Base Eva Banik, Eric Kow and Vinay Chaudhri
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Realisation, Aggregation and Variation
	Chair: Yashar Mehdad
11:00–11:30	Enhancing the Expression of Contrast in the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus David Howcroft, Crystal Nakatsu and Michael White
11:30–12:00	Generating Elliptic Coordination Claire Gardent and Shashi Narayan
12:00–12:30	Using Integer Linear Programming for Content Selection, Lexicalization, and Aggregation to Produce Compact Texts from OWL Ontologies Gerasimos Lampouras and Ion Androutsopoulos
12:30–14:00	Lunch
	Session 3: Referring Expressions and Multimodality
	Chair: Robert Dale
14:00–14:30	Generating and Interpreting Referring Expressions as Belief State Planning and Plan Recognition Dustin Smith and Henry Lieberman
14:30–15:00	Graphs and Spatial Relations in the Generation of Referring Expressions Jette Viethen, Margaret Mitchell and Emiel Krahmer
15:00–15:30	What and Where: An Empirical Investigation of Pointing Gestures and Descriptions in Multimodal Referring Actions Albert Gatt and Patrizia Paggio
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
	Invited Talk I
	Chair: Horacio Saggion
16:00–17:00	Natural Language Generation and Summarization at RALI Guy Lapalme
	Round Table Discussion
	Chair: Kees van Deemter
17:00–18:30	Convergences and divergences in generation from data, text, and conceptual input.

Friday, August 9, 2013
	Invited Talk II
	Chair: Albert Gatt
09:00–10:00	Narrative Composition: Achieving the Perceived Linearity of Narrative Pablo Gervás
	Session 4: NLG for Learner Support
	Chair: Yaji Sripada
10:00–10:30	Generating Natural Language Questions to Support Learning On-Line David Lindberg, Fred Popowich, John Nesbit and Phil Winne
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–11:30	Generating Student Feedback from Time-Series Data Using Reinforcement Learning Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie, Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon
	Generation Challenges
	Chair: Michael White
11:30–12:00	The KBGen Challenge Eva Banik, Claire Gardent and Eric Kow
12:00–12:30	Overview of the First Content Selection Challenge from Open Semantic Web Data Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Gerard Casamayor, Leo Wanner and Chris Mellish
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	Poster Session
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 5: NLG from Textual Input
	Chair: Eva Banik
16:00–16:30	Deconstructing Human Literature Reviews – A Framework for Multi-Document Summarization Kokil Jaidka, Christopher Khoo and Jin-Cheon Na
16:30–17:00	Abstractive Meeting Summarization with Entailment and Fusion Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Frank Tompa and Raymond T. NG
17:00–17:15	Conclusion

	Regular Posters
	Automatic Voice Selection in Japanese based on Various Linguistic Information Ryu Iida and Takenobu Tokunaga
	MIME - NLG in Pre-Hospital Care Anne Schneider, Alasdair Mort, Chris Mellish, Ehud Reiter, Phil Wilson and Pierre-Luc Vaudry
	Generation of Quantified Referring Expressions: Evidence from Experimental Data Dale Barr, Kees van Deemter and Raquel Fernandez
	POS-Tag Based Poetry Generation with WordNet Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta, Aitzol Astigarraga and Mans Hulden
	Greetings Generation in Video Role Playing Games Björn Schlünder and Ralf Klabunde
	On the Feasibility of Automatically Describing n-dimensional Objects Pablo Duboue
	GenNext: A Consolidated Domain Adaptable NLG System Frank Schilder, Blake Howald and Ravi Kondadadi
	Adapting SimpleNLG for Bilingual English-French Realisation Pierre-Luc Vaudry and Guy Lapalme
	A Case Study Towards Turkish Paraphrase Alignment Seniz Demir, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout and Erdem Unal
	Towards NLG for Physiological Data Monitoring with Body Area Networks Hadi Banaee, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed and Amy Loutfi

	Demos
	MIME- NLG Support for Complex and Unstable Pre-hospital Emergencies Anne Schneider, Alasdair Mort, Chris Mellish, Ehud Reiter, Phil Wilson and Pierre-Luc Vaudry
	Thoughtland: Natural Language Descriptions for Machine Learning n-dimensional Error Functions Pablo Duboue

	Generation Challenges Posters
	An Automatic Method for Building a Data-to-Text Generator Sina Zarriess and Kyle Richardson
	LOR-KBGEN, A Hybrid Approach To Generating from the KBGen Knowledge-Base Bikash Gyawali and Claire Gardent
	Team UDEL KBGen 2013 Challenge Keith Butler, Priscilla Moraes, Ian Tabolt and Kathy McCoy
	Content Selection Challenge - University of Aberdeen Entry Roman Kutlak, Chris Mellish and Kees van Deemter
	UIC-CSC: The Content Selection Challenge Entry from the University of Illinois at Chicago Hareen Venigalla and Barbara Di Eugenio