@InProceedings{mille-EtAl:2017:INLG2017,
  author    = {Mille, Simon  and  Bohnet, Bernd  and  Wanner, Leo  and  Belz, Anja},
  title     = {Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Santiago de Compostela, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {120--123},
  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.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3517}
}