CC-NLG 2018: INLG 2018 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation Tilburg University Tilburg, Netherlands, November 5, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.ccnlg.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccnlg2018 |
Submission deadline | September 7, 2018 |
CC-NLG 2018 is the third edition of a series of workshops that aim to bring together researchers dealing with text generation from a computational creativity (CC) perspective, and researchers in natural language generation (NLG) with an interest in creative aspects, while also discussing the crossovers in CC and NLG, as well as looking to dialogue systems and their creative possibilities, for example in social networks.
Discussions at CC-NLG will cover the distinct approaches of CC and NLG brought about by their respective focuses; research in computational creativity has tended to deal less with technical shifts, directed instead at cognition, aesthetics, and novelty; whilst NLG research has tended to focus on the technical and theoretical challenges of topics like readability. However, in recent years this distinction has become far less defined. NLG research deals actively with concepts of style, variation, poetics, and narrative, whilst creative researchers are developing robust implementations. This change can be seen in dialogue systems, where the usability of an interface relies on it handling out-of-domain or spontaneous user input. For example, a virtual teacher should be able to process 'Why can't pigs fly?', and a shopping assistant should be able to handle 'What cool movies are out?', while a humorous Twitterbot should be able to digest today's news. These are just a few examples in the broad domain of CC + NLG.
For additional information, check: http://www.ccnlg.org/
Submission Guidelines
Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair, at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccnlg2018
They should follow the INLG submission format and length limits. We are happy to accept both long papers (8+2 pages), which will be given more time to present, and short papers (4+1 pages). Check instructions at: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/call-for-papers/
Dual submission with INLG 2018 is permitted, provided that authors notify us on submission, and withdraw from one venue after acceptance on the other.
Research Topics
Research contributions are solicited on work that takes creativity into a general context, showing how the facets of creative language also enrich useful language. The workshop will still focus on core issues in computational creativity, like narrative, poetics, and humour, yet look to its communicative side. This will be of interest to researchers from computational creativity itself, as well as those looking to apply creative methods within other text generation systems.
More specifically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Poetry Generation
- Story Generation
- Generation of Metaphor, Figurative and Rhetorical Language
- Generation of Verbal Humor
- Personality and Emotion in NLG
- Creative Data-to-Text Models
- Interactive Language Generation
- Character-based Generation
- Style Generation
- Digital Literature
Important Dates
- Submissions due: September 7, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2018
- Camera-ready papers due: October 17, 2018
- Workshop: November 5, 2018
- INLG Conference: November 5-8, 2018
Committees
Program Committee
- Amílcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Carlos León, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble, France
- Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
- Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Instituut, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- François Portet, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Gonzalo Méndez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Mike Kestemont, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Tarek Besold, City University of London, UK
- Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Rafael Pérez y Pérez,Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana at Cuajimalpa, Mexico
- Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Organizing committee
- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Ben Burtenshaw, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Raquel Hervás, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Invited Speakers
The workshop will feature an invited talk “Content determination strategies for narrative: real-life reporting vs. fiction”, by Pablo Gervás
Publication
As in previous editions, the organisers of CC-NLG will apply to have the accepted papers included as INLG Workshop Proceedings on the ACL Anthology.
Venue
CC-NLG 2018 will be collocated with the International Natural Language Generation Conference, to be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hroliv[a]dei[.]uc[.]pt