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GENERATION CHALLENGES 2020

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Generation Challenges 2020

The Generation Challenges are an umbrella event designed to bring together a variety of shared-task efforts that involve the generation of natural language. This year, Generation Challenges will be held during a special session at the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2020.

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The session will follow the format of previous GenChal results sessions, with presentations of results by the organisers of the generation challenges that are currently running, as well as presentations of proposals for new shared tasks in the Task Proposals Track.

 

Call for new Shared Task proposals

 

We invite submissions of papers describing ideas for future shared tasks in the general area of language generation. Proposed tasks can be in the area of core NLG, or in other research areas in which language is generated. Examples include, but are not limited to: data-to-text NLG, text-to-text generation (including MT and summarisation), combining core NLG and MT, combining core NLG and text summarisation, NLG quality estimation, NLG evaluation metrics, and/or generating language from heterogeneous data, including image and video.

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Submissions should describe possible future tasks in detail, including information regarding organisers, task description, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context, size and state of completion of data to be used, schedule and evaluation plans.

 

Instructions for Paper Submissions

 

Submissions in the Task Proposals Track should be no more than 4 (four) pages long excluding citations, and should follow the guidelines and template files indicated on the ACL 2020 submissions homepage.

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Papers should be submitted via softconf. Please make sure you select "Generation Challenge" in the "Submission Type (*)" drop down menu ("Submission Categories" section of the submission page)."

 

Task Proposal papers should be submitted no later than 30th August 2020.

 

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will not be blind, there is no need to anonymise papers.

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This is not intended to be a selective process, since the aim is to discuss new potential shared tasks with INLG delegates. However, the organisers reserve the right to reject proposals which do not fall within the scope of the GenChal initiative, or which do not follow guidelines.

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Accepted submissions will be included in the INLG’20 proceedings.

 

Dates

 

  • Paper submission: 30th August 2020

  • Notification of acceptance: 11th October 2020

  • Submission of camera-ready papers: 30th October 2020

  • INLG 2020: 15-18th December 2020

 

 

Committee

 

  • Adil El Ghali (Lattice)

  • Albert Gatt (University of Malta)

  • Anja Belz (University of Brighton)

  • Chris Kedzie (Columbia University)

  • David Howcroft (Heriot-Watt University)

  • Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University)

  • Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University)

  • Farhood Farahnak (Concordia University)

  • Jose Maria Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela)

  • Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo (University of São Paulo)

  • Miruna Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre for Robotics)

  • Ondřej Dušek (Charles University)

  • Saad Mahamood (Trivago)

  • Sadid A. Hasan (CVS Health)

  • Sebastian Gehrmann (Google)

  • Shahbaz Syed (Leipzig University)

  • Simon Mille (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • Thiago Castro Ferreira (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

  • Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University)