7th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION


                        CALL for PAPERS


                   Toulouse (France), May 13-15 1999 


This seventh European workshop on Natural Language Generation
will focuss on all aspects of Computational Linguistics 
and industrial applications related to Natural Language Generation. 
Papers related to theoretical aspects, applied research and ongoing
projects are encouraged.

Natural Language Generation being the study of a number of models,
approaches and systems, the workshop will include, besides classical
topics, scientific domains in which natural language generation plays
an important role, such as speech, dialogue, multi-media interfaces,
psycho-linguistics, and theoretical linguistics.  Relevant application
domains include all types of applications (MT, IR and IE, etc.) in
which generation plays an important role and where specific techniques
or models of generation have been developed.

The main topics are the following, without excluding others:
        - lexical aspects: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics,
        - syntactic aspects,
        - semantic and pragmatic aspects,
        - speech synthesis and NLG, oral dialogue,
        - construction of knowledge bases for NLG,
        - applications of NLG: MT, summarization, report generation, etc., 
        - multi-media generation including graphics, numerical information,
          and texts in various formats, etc.,
        - psycholinguistic aspects of NLG: in speech production, in
          discourse production and management, in lexicalization, etc.
        - architectures for NLG,
        - Internet and WEB applications using NLG.


Multiple submissions must be mentioned, and if the paper is accepted
at several places, presentation at the workshop will be conditional to
the paper been withdrawn from these other places.  Papers should be
prepared in LaTeX (preferably) or in Word (send rtf file), not
exceeding 4000 words (about 8 to 10 pages long), including references.
More details about format submissions will be given soon on the
workshop WEB site.  

Papers must relate original, unpublished work. Work in progress can
also be submitted. Papers must include the authors' name, full address
and e-mail.  They will be reviewed anonymously. Therefore, a title
page must come separately, with the title of the paper, the abstract,
the authors' names and addresses, and, if appropriate, the mention of
multiple submissions (and where the paper has been submitted).  No
indication of the authors' identity must appear in the text of the
paper.

Deadlines:
 January 25th  Submission of papers by e-mail
 March 10th    Notification of acceptance /rejection
 April 15th    Final paper due (paper copy)
 May 13-15     Workshop.

Papers and all correspondance should be sent to stdizier@irit.fr

Programme Committee:

Christy Doran
Wolfgang Hoeppner
Helmut Horacek
Eduard Hovy
Guy Lapalme
Kathy McCoy
David McDonald
Kathy McKeown
Chris Mellish
Cecile Paris
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Manfred Stede
Michael Zock

Local Organization information:

WEB site (forthcoming): www.irit.fr/MANIFS/manifs.html
look for: EWNLG'99.

The meeting will be held in Toulouse downtown,
in the Holiday Inn hotel, on the famous `Place du Capitole',
in the heart of the old town. Toulouse has an international
airport, with many national and European destinations.
There are many places worth visiting in the city, all within about
10 minutes walking distance (museums, old Roman-style churches,
16th-17th century private houses with inner yards, etc.).

Fees should be around 750 French Francs (about 130 US$), for 2 days,
including two lunches, the breaks and the proceedings.
For three days, fees will be about 1000F.
Blocks of rooms will be reserved in the hotel meeting (530F per room
per day, incl. buffet breakfast) and in other, cheaper, hotels around at 
preferential rates.