7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2012): short paper deadline on February 29; demo deadline on March 7

The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2012)
will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica IL, USA, May 30 - June 1 2012.
Many topics of interest to INLG are related to dialogue and discourse, so
we hope the SigDial community will contribute papers as well!

The preliminary program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the list of the
full program committee is now available at the conference web site

http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/

Here are some highlights

1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University

2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/

Long/short paper submission deadline: Feb 10, 2012 (Fri)
Demo submission deadline: Mar 7, 2012 (Weds)
Notification of acceptance (all types): Mar 28, 2012 (Weds)
Final paper submission (all types): Apr 22, 2012 (Sun)

3. Active topics of interest include:

Affect/emotion generation
Architecture of generators
Content planning
Discourse models
Embodied generation
Evaluation of NLG systems
Generation and summarization
Lexicalization
Multilingual NLG
Multimedia or multimodal generation
NLG for real-world applications
NLG in linguistically motivated frameworks
Planning and NLG
Question Generation
Referring expression generation
Statistical processing for NLG
Surface realization
Use of ontologies in NLG

Barbara Di Eugenio and Susan McRoy
Co-Chairs, INLG 2012