| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/H032886/1 |
| Title: |
Generation Challenges 2010 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Belz, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Sch of Computing, Engineering & Maths |
| Organisation: |
University of Brighton |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 April 2010 |
Ends: |
31 March 2011 |
Value (£): |
42,403
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Comput./Corpus Linguistics |
Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
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| No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the subfield of Natural LanguageProcessing (NLP) that is concerned with developing computationalmethods for automatically producing language. Possible applicationsof NLG technology include economising text-production processes andimproving access to non-verbal information, as well as machinetranslation, text summarisation and human-computer dialogue. NLG is afield with vast but so far largely unrealised potential. In other NLPfields, shared data, shared core technology and organised shared-taskcompetitions have been seen to galvanise research communities, andlead to rapid technological progress. Among NLG researchers, growinginterest in comparative forms of evaluation led to a discussion whichhas now resulted in the first three shared-task evaluationcompetitions in NLG: in 2007, we organised a pilot NLG shared-taskevaluation event, the Attribute Selection for Generating ReferringExpressions (ASGRE'07) Challenge; in 2008, we organised the ReferringExpression Generation Challenge (REG'08) which saw participationdouble and was co-located with the leading international conference inNLG (INLG'08 in Columbus, Ohio); and this year, we organised the firstGeneration Challenges event which saw the number of tasks, organisingteams and participants increase further and was co-located with the leadingEuropean conference in NLG (ENLG'09 in Athens). ASGRE'07, REG'08 andGeneration Challenges 2009 have met with enthusiasm among NLGresearchers, have resulted in the creation of new technology and dataresources, and have drawn new researchers into the field. In order tocontinue and increase these beneficial effects, we are organising afourth NLG evaluation event, Generation Challenges 2010, once again inconjunction with the leading NLG conference (INLG'10). GenerationChallenges 2010 comprises two tasks that have grown out of tasks fromthe previous year, two new tasks, and three working groups on new taskscurrently under development which are expected to run in 2011. Inorder to put the Generation Challenges initiative on a more permanentand representative footing, we have recently founded the GenerationChallenges Steering Committee whose members include many of theleading researchers in the NLG field. Our aim for 2010 is to putmechanisms in place that ensure the long-term continuation of theGeneration Challenges initiative and the inclusion of growing numbersof researchers organising and running their own tasks. Unlike leadingevaluation initiatives in Machine Translation and DocumentSummarisation, which are funded and directed by US governmentagencies, ASGRE'07, REG'08, GenChal'09 and now Generation Challenges2010 are community-based, UK-led evaluation initiatives. Thisproposal requests funding for umbrella organisation and administrativeactivities, as well as data preparation and evaluation experiments forone of the shared tasks in Generation Challenges 2010, to enable us tocarry out the full range of planned activities, and to keep thisinitiative community-based and UK-led.
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