Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor 2019-oct–nov Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan text conference publication ws-2019-international-natural-language 10.18653/v1/W19-8600 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8600/ Talking about what is not there: Generating indefinite referring expressions in Minecraft Arne Köhn author Alexander Koller author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication kohn-koller-2019-talking 10.18653/v1/W19-8601 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8601/ 2019-oct–nov 1 10 Generating Quantified Referring Expressions with Perceptual Cost Pruning Gordon Briggs author Hillary Harner author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication briggs-harner-2019-generating 10.18653/v1/W19-8602 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8602/ 2019-oct–nov 11 18 A case study on context-bound referring expression generation Maurice Langner author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication langner-2019-case 10.18653/v1/W19-8603 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8603/ 2019-oct–nov 19 23 Rethinking Text Attribute Transfer: A Lexical Analysis Yao Fu author Hao Zhou author Jiaze Chen author Lei Li author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication fu-etal-2019-rethinking 10.18653/v1/W19-8604 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8604/ 2019-oct–nov 24 33 Choosing between Long and Short Word Forms in Mandarin Lin Li author Kees van Deemter author Denis Paperno author Jingyu Fan author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication li-etal-2019-choosing 10.18653/v1/W19-8605 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8605/ 2019-oct–nov 34 39 Diamonds in the Rough: Generating Fluent Sentences from Early-Stage Drafts for Academic Writing Assistance Takumi Ito author Tatsuki Kuribayashi author Hayato Kobayashi author Ana Brassard author Masato Hagiwara author Jun Suzuki author Kentaro Inui author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication ito-etal-2019-diamonds 10.18653/v1/W19-8606 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8606/ 2019-oct–nov 40 53 Computational Argumentation Synthesis as a Language Modeling Task Roxanne El Baff author Henning Wachsmuth author Khalid Al Khatib author Manfred Stede author Benno Stein author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication el-baff-etal-2019-computational 10.18653/v1/W19-8607 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8607/ 2019-oct–nov 54 64 Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators Sanghyun Yi author Rahul Goel author Chandra Khatri author Alessandra Cervone author Tagyoung Chung author Behnam Hedayatnia author Anu Venkatesh author Raefer Gabriel author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication yi-etal-2019-towards 10.18653/v1/W19-8608 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8608/ 2019-oct–nov 65 75 Importance of Search and Evaluation Strategies in Neural Dialogue Modeling Ilia Kulikov author Alexander Miller author Kyunghyun Cho author Jason Weston author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication kulikov-etal-2019-importance 10.18653/v1/W19-8609 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8609/ 2019-oct–nov 76 87 Towards Best Experiment Design for Evaluating Dialogue System Output Sashank Santhanam author Samira Shaikh author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication santhanam-shaikh-2019-towards 10.18653/v1/W19-8610 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8610/ 2019-oct–nov 88 94 A Tree-to-Sequence Model for Neural NLG in Task-Oriented Dialog Jinfeng Rao author Kartikeya Upasani author Anusha Balakrishnan author Michael White author Anuj Kumar author Rajen Subba author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication rao-etal-2019-tree 10.18653/v1/W19-8611 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8611/ 2019-oct–nov 95 100 Multiple News Headlines Generation using Page Metadata Kango Iwama author Yoshinobu Kano author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication iwama-kano-2019-multiple 10.18653/v1/W19-8612 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8612/ 2019-oct–nov 101 105 Neural Question Generation using Interrogative Phrases Yuichi Sasazawa author Sho Takase author Naoaki Okazaki author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication sasazawa-etal-2019-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-8613 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8613/ 2019-oct–nov 106 111 Generating Text from Anonymised Structures Emilie Colin author Claire Gardent author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication colin-gardent-2019-generating 10.18653/v1/W19-8614 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8614/ 2019-oct–nov 112 117 MinWikiSplit: A Sentence Splitting Corpus with Minimal Propositions Christina Niklaus author André Freitas author Siegfried Handschuh author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication niklaus-etal-2019-minwikisplit 10.18653/v1/W19-8615 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8615/ 2019-oct–nov 118 123 QTUNA: A Corpus for Understanding How Speakers Use Quantification Guanyi Chen author Kees van Deemter author Silvia Pagliaro author Louk Smalbil author Chenghua Lin author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication chen-etal-2019-qtuna 10.18653/v1/W19-8616 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8616/ 2019-oct–nov 124 129 KPTimes: A Large-Scale Dataset for Keyphrase Generation on News Documents Ygor Gallina author Florian Boudin author Beatrice Daille author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication gallina-etal-2019-kptimes 10.18653/v1/W19-8617 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8617/ 2019-oct–nov 130 135 Sketch Me if You Can: Towards Generating Detailed Descriptions of Object Shape by Grounding in Images and Drawings Ting Han author Sina Zarrieß author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication han-zarriess-2019-sketch 10.18653/v1/W19-8618 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8618/ 2019-oct–nov 136 140 An Encoder with non-Sequential Dependency for Neural Data-to-Text Generation Feng Nie author Jinpeng Wang author Rong Pan author Chin-Yew Lin author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication nie-etal-2019-encoder 10.18653/v1/W19-8619 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8619/ 2019-oct–nov 141 146 On Leveraging the Visual Modality for Neural Machine Translation Vikas Raunak author Sang Keun Choe author Quanyang Lu author Yi Xu author Florian Metze author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication raunak-etal-2019-leveraging 10.18653/v1/W19-8620 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8620/ 2019-oct–nov 147 151 Tell Me More: A Dataset of Visual Scene Description Sequences Nikolai Ilinykh author Sina Zarrieß author David Schlangen author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication ilinykh-etal-2019-tell 10.18653/v1/W19-8621 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8621/ 2019-oct–nov 152 157 A Closer Look at Recent Results of Verb Selection for Data-to-Text NLG Guanyi Chen author Jin-Ge Yao author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication chen-yao-2019-closer 10.18653/v1/W19-8622 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8622/ 2019-oct–nov 158 163 ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation Juraj Juraska author Kevin Bowden author Marilyn Walker author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication juraska-etal-2019-viggo 10.18653/v1/W19-8623 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8623/ 2019-oct–nov 164 172 BERT for Question Generation Ying-Hong Chan author Yao-Chung Fan author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication chan-fan-2019-bert 10.18653/v1/W19-8624 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8624/ 2019-oct–nov 173 177 Visually grounded generation of entailments from premises Somayeh Jafaritazehjani author Albert Gatt author Marc Tanti author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication jafaritazehjani-etal-2019-visually 10.18653/v1/W19-8625 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8625/ 2019-oct–nov 178 188 Detecting Machine-Translated Text using Back Translation Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son author Thao Tran Phuong author Seira Hidano author Shinsaku Kiyomoto author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication nguyen-son-etal-2019-detecting 10.18653/v1/W19-8626 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8626/ 2019-oct–nov 189 197 Neural Conversation Model Controllable by Given Dialogue Act Based on Adversarial Learning and Label-aware Objective Seiya Kawano author Koichiro Yoshino author Satoshi Nakamura author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication kawano-etal-2019-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-8627 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8627/ 2019-oct–nov 198 207 Low Level Linguistic Controls for Style Transfer and Content Preservation Katy Gero author Chris Kedzie author Jonathan Reeve author Lydia Chilton author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication gero-etal-2019-low 10.18653/v1/W19-8628 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8628/ 2019-oct–nov 208 218 Selecting Artificially-Generated Sentences for Fine-Tuning Neural Machine Translation Alberto Poncelas author Andy Way author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication poncelas-way-2019-selecting 10.18653/v1/W19-8629 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8629/ 2019-oct–nov 219 228 Efficiency Metrics for Data-Driven Models: A Text Summarization Case Study Erion Çano author Ondřej Bojar author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication cano-bojar-2019-efficiency 10.18653/v1/W19-8630 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8630/ 2019-oct–nov 229 239 An NLG System for Constituent Correspondence: Personality, Affect, and Alignment William Kolkey author Jian Dong author Greg Bybee author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication kolkey-etal-2019-nlg 10.18653/v1/W19-8631 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8631/ 2019-oct–nov 240 243 Margin Call: an Accessible Web-based Text Viewer with Generated Paragraph Summaries in the Margin Naba Rizvi author Sebastian Gehrmann author Lidan Wang author Franck Dernoncourt author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication rizvi-etal-2019-margin 10.18653/v1/W19-8632 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8632/ 2019-oct–nov 244 246 Privacy-Aware Text Rewriting Qiongkai Xu author Lizhen Qu author Chenchen Xu author Ran Cui author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication xu-etal-2019-privacy 10.18653/v1/W19-8633 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8633/ 2019-oct–nov 247 257 Personalized Substitution Ranking for Lexical Simplification John Lee author Chak Yan Yeung author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication lee-yeung-2019-personalized 10.18653/v1/W19-8634 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8634/ 2019-oct–nov 258 267 Revisiting the Binary Linearization Technique for Surface Realization Yevgeniy Puzikov author Claire Gardent author Ido Dagan author Iryna Gurevych author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication puzikov-etal-2019-revisiting 10.18653/v1/W19-8635 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8635/ 2019-oct–nov 268 278 Head-First Linearization with Tree-Structured Representation Xiang Yu author Agnieszka Falenska author Ngoc Thang Vu author Jonas Kuhn author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication yu-etal-2019-head 10.18653/v1/W19-8636 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8636/ 2019-oct–nov 279 289 Let’s FACE it. Finnish Poetry Generation with Aesthetics and Framing Mika Hämäläinen author Khalid Alnajjar author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication hamalainen-alnajjar-2019-lets 10.18653/v1/W19-8637 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8637/ 2019-oct–nov 290 300 Generation of Hip-Hop Lyrics with Hierarchical Modeling and Conditional Templates Enrique Manjavacas author Mike Kestemont author Folgert Karsdorp author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication manjavacas-etal-2019-generation 10.18653/v1/W19-8638 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8638/ 2019-oct–nov 301 310 Revisiting Challenges in Data-to-Text Generation with Fact Grounding Hongmin Wang author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication wang-2019-revisiting 10.18653/v1/W19-8639 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8639/ 2019-oct–nov 311 322 Controlling Contents in Data-to-Document Generation with Human-Designed Topic Labels Kasumi Aoki author Akira Miyazawa author Tatsuya Ishigaki author Tatsuya Aoki author Hiroshi Noji author Keiichi Goshima author Ichiro Kobayashi author Hiroya Takamura author Yusuke Miyao author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication aoki-etal-2019-controlling 10.18653/v1/W19-8640 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8640/ 2019-oct–nov 323 332 A Large-Scale Multi-Length Headline Corpus for Analyzing Length-Constrained Headline Generation Model Evaluation Yuta Hitomi author Yuya Taguchi author Hideaki Tamori author Ko Kikuta author Jiro Nishitoba author Naoaki Okazaki author Kentaro Inui author Manabu Okumura author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication hitomi-etal-2019-large 10.18653/v1/W19-8641 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8641/ 2019-oct–nov 333 343 Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability Jacopo Amidei author Paul Piwek author Alistair Willis author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication amidei-etal-2019-agreement 10.18653/v1/W19-8642 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8642/ 2019-oct–nov 344 354 Best practices for the human evaluation of automatically generated text Chris van der Lee author Albert Gatt author Emiel van Miltenburg author Sander Wubben author Emiel Krahmer author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication van-der-lee-etal-2019-best 10.18653/v1/W19-8643 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8643/ 2019-oct–nov 355 368 Automatic Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation: Ranting (Jointly Rating and Ranking) Ondřej Dušek author Karin Sevegnani author Ioannis Konstas author Verena Rieser author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication dusek-etal-2019-automatic 10.18653/v1/W19-8644 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8644/ 2019-oct–nov 369 376 Improving Quality and Efficiency in Plan-based Neural Data-to-text Generation Amit Moryossef author Yoav Goldberg author Ido Dagan author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication moryossef-etal-2019-improving 10.18653/v1/W19-8645 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8645/ 2019-oct–nov 377 382 Toward a Better Story End: Collecting Human Evaluation with Reasons Yusuke Mori author Hiroaki Yamane author Yusuke Mukuta author Tatsuya Harada author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication mori-etal-2019-toward 10.18653/v1/W19-8646 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8646/ 2019-oct–nov 383 390 Hotel Scribe: Generating High Variation Hotel Descriptions Saad Mahamood author Maciej Zembrzuski author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication mahamood-zembrzuski-2019-hotel 10.18653/v1/W19-8647 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8647/ 2019-oct–nov 391 396 The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations Jacopo Amidei author Paul Piwek author Alistair Willis author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication amidei-etal-2019-use 10.18653/v1/W19-8648 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8648/ 2019-oct–nov 397 402 On task effects in NLG corpus elicitation: a replication study using mixed effects modeling Emiel van Miltenburg author Merel van de Kerkhof author Ruud Koolen author Martijn Goudbeek author Emiel Krahmer author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication van-miltenburg-etal-2019-task 10.18653/v1/W19-8649 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8649/ 2019-oct–nov 403 408 Procedural Text Generation from a Photo Sequence Taichi Nishimura author Atsushi Hashimoto author Shinsuke Mori author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication nishimura-etal-2019-procedural 10.18653/v1/W19-8650 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8650/ 2019-oct–nov 409 414 SimpleNLG-DE: Adapting SimpleNLG 4 to German Daniel Braun author Kira Klimt author Daniela Schneider author Florian Matthes author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication braun-etal-2019-simplenlg 10.18653/v1/W19-8651 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8651/ 2019-oct–nov 415 420 Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation Ondřej Dušek author David M Howcroft author Verena Rieser author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for 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Philipp Sadler author Tatjana Scheffler author David Schlangen author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication sadler-etal-2019-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-8653 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8653/ 2019-oct–nov 427 431 Towards a Metric for Automated Conversational Dialogue System Evaluation and Improvement Jan Milan Deriu author Mark Cieliebak author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication deriu-cieliebak-2019-towards 10.18653/v1/W19-8654 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8654/ 2019-oct–nov 432 437 Generating Paraphrases with Lean Vocabulary Tadashi Nomoto author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication nomoto-2019-generating 10.18653/v1/W19-8655 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8655/ 2019-oct–nov 438 442 A Personalized Data-to-Text Support Tool for Cancer Patients Saar Hommes author Chris van der Lee author Felix Clouth author Jeroen Vermunt author Xander Verbeek author Emiel Krahmer author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication hommes-etal-2019-personalized 10.18653/v1/W19-8656 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8656/ 2019-oct–nov 443 452 Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering Alessandra Cervone author Chandra Khatri author Rahul Goel author Behnam Hedayatnia author Anu Venkatesh author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author Raefer Gabriel author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication cervone-etal-2019-natural 10.18653/v1/W19-8657 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8657/ 2019-oct–nov 453 462 Using NLG for speech synthesis of mathematical sentences Alessandro Mazzei author Michele Monticone author Cristian Bernareggi author 2019-oct–nov text Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Kees van Deemter editor Chenghua Lin editor Hiroya Takamura editor Association for Computational Linguistics Tokyo, Japan conference publication mazzei-etal-2019-using 10.18653/v1/W19-8658 https://aclanthology.org/W19-8658/ 2019-oct–nov 463 472 Teaching FORGe to Verbalize DBpedia Properties in Spanish Simon Mille author 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