Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees

Simon Mille, Bernd Bohnet, Leo Wanner, Anja Belz


Abstract
We propose a shared task on multilingual Surface Realization, i.e., on mapping unordered and uninflected universal dependency trees to correctly ordered and inflected sentences in a number of languages. A second deeper input will be available in which, in addition, functional words, fine-grained PoS and morphological information will be removed from the input trees. The first shared task on Surface Realization was carried out in 2011 with a similar setup, with a focus on English. We think that it is time for relaunching such a shared task effort in view of the arrival of Universal Dependencies annotated treebanks for a large number of languages on the one hand, and the increasing dominance of Deep Learning, which proved to be a game changer for NLP, on the other hand.
Anthology ID:
W17-3517
Volume:
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Editors:
Jose M. Alonso, Alberto Bugarín, Ehud Reiter
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INLG
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SIGGEN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
120–123
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-3517
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3517
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Simon Mille, Bernd Bohnet, Leo Wanner, and Anja Belz. 2017. Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 120–123, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees (Mille et al., INLG 2017)
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Data
Universal Dependencies