Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor 2021-08 Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK text conference publication inlg-2021-international https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.0/ Generating Diverse Descriptions from Semantic Graphs Jiuzhou Han author Daniel Beck author Trevor Cohn author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication han-etal-2021-generating 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.1/ 2021-08 1 11 Neural Methodius Revisited: Do Discourse Relations Help with Pre-Trained Models Too? Aleksandre Maskharashvili author Symon Stevens-Guille author Xintong Li author Michael White author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication maskharashvili-etal-2021-neural 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.2/ 2021-08 12 23 Exploring Input Representation Granularity for Generating Questions Satisfying Question-Answer Congruence Madeeswaran Kannan author Haemanth Santhi Ponnusamy author Kordula De Kuthy author Lukas Stein author Detmar Meurers author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication kannan-etal-2021-exploring 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.3/ 2021-08 24 34 Towards Zero-Shot Multilingual Synthetic Question and Answer Generation for Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension Siamak Shakeri author Noah Constant author Mihir Kale author Linting Xue author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication shakeri-etal-2021-towards 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.4/ 2021-08 35 45 Chefbot: A Novel Framework for the Generation of Commonsense-enhanced Responses for Task-based Dialogue Systems Carl Strathearn author Dimitra Gkatzia author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication strathearn-gkatzia-2021-chefbot 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.5/ 2021-08 46 47 Predicting Antonyms in Context using BERT Ayana Niwa author Keisuke Nishiguchi author Naoaki Okazaki author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication niwa-etal-2021-predicting 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.6/ 2021-08 48 54 Examining Covert Gender Bias: A Case Study in Turkish and English Machine Translation Models Chloe Ciora author Nur Iren author Malihe Alikhani author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication ciora-etal-2021-examining 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.7/ 2021-08 55 63 WeaSuL: Weakly Supervised Dialogue Policy Learning: Reward Estimation for Multi-turn Dialogue Anant Khandelwal author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication khandelwal-2021-weasul-weakly 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.8/ 2021-08 64 75 Multi-Sentence Knowledge Selection in Open-Domain Dialogue Mihail Eric author Nicole Chartier author Behnam Hedayatnia author Karthik Gopalakrishnan author Pankaj Rajan author Yang Liu author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication eric-etal-2021-multi 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.9/ 2021-08 76 86 Self-Training for Compositional Neural NLG in Task-Oriented Dialogue Xintong Li author Symon Stevens-Guille author Aleksandre Maskharashvili author Michael White author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication li-etal-2021-self 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.10/ 2021-08 87 102 Generating Racing Game Commentary from Vision, Language, and Structured Data Tatsuya Ishigaki author Goran Topic author Yumi Hamazono author Hiroshi Noji author Ichiro Kobayashi author Yusuke Miyao author Hiroya Takamura author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication ishigaki-etal-2021-generating 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.11/ 2021-08 103 113 Explaining Decision-Tree Predictions by Addressing Potential Conflicts between Predictions and Plausible Expectations Sameen Maruf author Ingrid Zukerman author Ehud Reiter author Gholamreza Haffari author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication maruf-etal-2021-explaining 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.12/ 2021-08 114 127 Formulating Neural Sentence Ordering as the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem Vishal Keswani author Harsh Jhamtani author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication keswani-jhamtani-2021-formulating 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.13/ 2021-08 128 139 Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it Emiel van Miltenburg author Miruna Clinciu author Ondřej Dušek author Dimitra Gkatzia author Stephanie Inglis author Leo Leppänen author Saad Mahamood author Emma Manning author Stephanie Schoch author Craig Thomson author Luou Wen author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication van-miltenburg-etal-2021-underreporting 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.14/ 2021-08 140 153 What can Neural Referential Form Selectors Learn? Guanyi Chen author Fahime Same author Kees van Deemter author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication chen-etal-2021-neural-referential 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.15/ 2021-08 154 166 HI-CMLM: Improve CMLM with Hybrid Decoder Input Minghan Wang author Guo Jiaxin author Yuxia Wang author Yimeng Chen author Su Chang author Daimeng Wei author Min Zhang author Shimin Tao author Hao Yang author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication wang-etal-2021-hi 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.16/ 2021-08 167 171 Using BERT for choosing classifiers in Mandarin Jani Järnfors author Guanyi Chen author Kees van Deemter author Rint Sybesma author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication jarnfors-etal-2021-using 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.17/ 2021-08 172 176 Enriching the E2E dataset Thiago Castro Ferreira author Helena Vaz author Brian Davis author Adriana Pagano author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication castro-ferreira-etal-2021-enriching 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.18/ 2021-08 177 183 Goal-Oriented Script Construction Qing Lyu author Li Zhang author Chris Callison-Burch author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication lyu-etal-2021-goal 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.19/ 2021-08 184 200 Single Example Can Improve Zero-Shot Data Generation Pavel Burnyshev author Valentin Malykh author Andrey Bout author Ekaterina Artemova author Irina Piontkovskaya author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication burnyshev-etal-2021-single 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.20/ 2021-08 201 211 SAPPHIRE: Approaches for Enhanced Concept-to-Text Generation Steven Y Feng author Jessica Huynh author Chaitanya Prasad Narisetty author Eduard Hovy author Varun Gangal author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication feng-etal-2021-sapphire 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.21/ 2021-08 212 225 Contextualizing Variation in Text Style Transfer Datasets Stephanie Schoch author Wanyu Du author Yangfeng Ji author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication schoch-etal-2021-contextualizing 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.22/ 2021-08 226 239 Generation Challenges: Results of the Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task Craig Thomson author Ehud Reiter author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication thomson-reiter-2021-generation 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.23 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.23/ 2021-08 240 248 The ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results Anya Belz author Anastasia Shimorina author Shubham Agarwal author Ehud Reiter author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication belz-etal-2021-reprogen 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.24 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.24/ 2021-08 249 258 Text-in-Context: Token-Level Error Detection for Table-to-Text Generation Zdeněk Kasner author Simon Mille author Ondřej Dušek author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication kasner-etal-2021-text 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.25 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.25/ 2021-08 259 265 Shared Task in Evaluating Accuracy: Leveraging Pre-Annotations in the Validation Process Nicolas Garneau author Luc Lamontagne author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication garneau-lamontagne-2021-shared 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.26/ 2021-08 266 270 Automatic Verification of Data Summaries Rayhane Rezgui author Mohammed Saeed author Paolo Papotti author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication rezgui-etal-2021-automatic 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.27/ 2021-08 271 275 Grounding NBA Matchup Summaries Tadashi Nomoto author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication nomoto-2021-grounding 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.28 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.28/ 2021-08 276 281 Reproducing a Comparison of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts Saad Mahamood author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication mahamood-2021-reproducing 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.29 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.29/ 2021-08 282 285 Another PASS: A Reproduction Study of the Human Evaluation of a Football Report Generation System Simon Mille author Thiago Castro Ferreira author Anya Belz author Brian Davis author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication mille-etal-2021-another 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.30 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.30/ 2021-08 286 292 A Reproduction Study of an Annotation-based Human Evaluation of MT Outputs Maja Popović author Anya Belz author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication popovic-belz-2021-reproduction 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.31 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.31/ 2021-08 293 300 TUDA-Reproducibility @ ReproGen: Replicability of Human Evaluation of Text-to-Text and Concept-to-Text Generation Christian Richter author Yanran Chen author Steffen Eger author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication richter-etal-2021-tuda 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.32 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.32/ 2021-08 301 307 DialogSum Challenge: Summarizing Real-Life Scenario Dialogues Yulong Chen author Yang Liu author Yue Zhang author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication chen-etal-2021-dialogsum-challenge 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.33 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.33/ 2021-08 308 313 Quality Evaluation of the Low-Resource Synthetically Generated Code-Mixed Hinglish Text Vivek Srivastava author Mayank Singh author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication srivastava-singh-2021-quality 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.34 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.34/ 2021-08 314 319 Shared Task on Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners Ryo Nagata author Masato Hagiwara author Kazuaki Hanawa author Masato Mita author Artem Chernodub author Olena Nahorna author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication nagata-etal-2021-shared 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.35 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.35/ 2021-08 320 324 The SelectGen Challenge: Finding the Best Training Samples for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation Ernie Chang author Xiaoyu Shen author Alex Marin author Vera Demberg author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication chang-etal-2021-selectgen 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.36 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.36/ 2021-08 325 330 Affective Decoding for Empathetic Response Generation Chengkun Zeng author Guanyi Chen author Chenghua Lin author Ruizhe Li author Zhi Chen author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication zeng-etal-2021-affective 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.37 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.37/ 2021-08 331 340 Controllable Sentence Simplification with a Unified Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer Kim Cheng Sheang author Horacio Saggion author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication sheang-saggion-2021-controllable 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yermakov-etal-2021-biomedical 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.40 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.40/ 2021-08 364 370 Decoding, Fast and Slow: A Case Study on Balancing Trade-Offs in Incremental, Character-level Pragmatic Reasoning Sina Zarrieß author Hendrik Buschmeier author Ting Han author Simeon Schüz author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication zarriess-etal-2021-decoding 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.41 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.41/ 2021-08 371 376 GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graph Hong Chen author Raphael Shu author Hiroya Takamura author Hideki Nakayama author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication chen-etal-2021-graphplan 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.42 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.42/ 2021-08 377 386 BERT-based distractor generation for Swedish reading comprehension questions using a small-scale dataset Dmytro Kalpakchi author Johan Boye author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication kalpakchi-boye-2021-bert 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.43 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.43/ 2021-08 387 403 Exploring Structural Encoding for Data-to-Text Generation Joy Mahapatra author Utpal Garain author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication mahapatra-garain-2021-exploring 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.44 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.44/ 2021-08 404 415 Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG Juraj Juraska author Marilyn Walker author 2021-08 text Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Anya Belz editor Angela Fan editor Ehud Reiter editor Yaji Sripada editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, Scotland, UK conference publication juraska-walker-2021-attention 10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.45 https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.45/ 2021-08 416 431