Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference Comparing Rating Scales and Preference Judgements in Language Evaluation Anja Belz Eric Kow A Discourse-Aware Graph-Based Content-Selection Framework Seniz Demir Sandra Carberry Kathleen F. McCoy Generating Referring Expressions with Reference Domain Theory Alexandre Denis Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Text Generation Nina Dethlefs Heriberto Cuayahuitl Tense and Aspect Assignment in Narrative Discourse David Elson Kathleen McKeown Textual Properties and Task-based Evaluation: Investigating the Role of Surface Properties, Structure and Content Albert Gatt Francois Portet Situated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System Manuel Giuliani Mary Ellen Foster Amy Isard Colin Matheson Jon Oberlander Alois Knoll Towards a Programmable Instrumented Generator Chris Mellish Using Semantic Web Technology to Support NLG. Case Study: OWL finds RAGS Chris Mellish Natural Reference to Objects in a Visual Domain Margaret Mitchell Kees van Deemter Ehud Reiter Generating and Validating Abstracts of Meeting Conversations: a User Study Gabriel Murray Giuseppe Carenini Raymond Ng Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions Yuan Ren Kees van Deemter Jeff Z. Pan Complex Lexico-syntactic Reformulation of Sentences Using Typed Dependency Representations Advaith Siddharthan Towards an Extrinsic Evaluation of Referring Expressions in Situated Dialogs Philipp Spanger Ryu Iida Takenobu Tokunaga Asuka Terai Naoko Kuriyama Harvesting Re-usable High-level Rules for Expository Dialogue Generation Svetlana Stoyanchev Paul Piwek Feature Selection for Fluency Ranking Daniël de Kok Extracting Parallel Fragments from Comparable Corpora for Data-to-text Generation Anja Belz Eric Kow Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Z Test Cases Maximiliano Cristià Brian Plüss Applying Semantic Frame Theory to Automate Natural Language Template Generation From Ontology Statements Dana Dannélls 'If you've heard it, you can say it' - Towards an Account of Expressibility David McDonald Charlie Greenbacker Cross-linguistic Attribute Selection for REG: Comparing Dutch and English Mariet Theune Ruud Koolen Emiel Krahmer Grouping Axioms for More Coherent Ontology Descriptions Sandra Williams Richard Power Paraphrase Generation as Monolingual Translation: Data and Evaluation Sander Wubben Antal van den Bosch Emiel Krahmer Anchor-Progression in Spatially Situated Discourse: a Production Experiment Hendrik Zender Christopher Koppermann Fai Greeve Geert-Jan Kruijff Generation Challenges 2010 Preface Anja Belz Albert Gatt Alexander Koller The GREC Challenges 2010: Overview and Evaluation Results Anja Belz Eric Kow Named Entity Generation Using Sampling-based Structured Prediction Guillaume Bouchard Poly-co: An Unsupervised Co-reference Detection System Éric Charton Michel Gagnon Benoit Ozell JU_CSE_GREC10: Named Entity Generation at GREC 2010 Amitava Das Tanik Saikh Tapabrata Mondal Sivaji Bandyopadhyay The UMUS System for Named Entity Generation at GREC 2010 Benoit Favre Bernd Bohnet UDel: Refining a Method of Named Entity Generation Charles Greenbacker Nicole Sparks Kathleen McCoy Che-Yu Kuo UDel: Named Entity Recognition and Reference Regeneration from Surface Text Nicole Sparks Charles Greenbacker Kathleen McCoy Che-Yu Kuo Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2) Alexander Koller Kristina Striegnitz Andrew Gargett Donna Byron Justine Cassell Robert Dale Johann Moore Jon Oberlander The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge Vasile Rus Brendan Wyse Paul Piwek Mihai Lintean Svetlana Stoyanchev Christian Moldovan Generation Under Uncertainty Oliver Lemon Srini Janarthanam Verena Rieser Helping Our Own: Text Massaging for Computational Linguistics as a New Shared Task Robert Dale Adam Kilgarriff Finding Common Ground: Towards a Surface Realisation Shared Task Anja Belz Mike White Josef van Genabith Deirdre Hogan Amanda Stent Author Index