Announcement and Call for Papers: Second International Natural
                Language Generation Conference (INLG2002)

The Second International Natural Language Generation Conference
(INLG2002) will be held July 1 to 3, 2002 at the Arden Conference 
Center in the Ramapo mountains near New York City, USA. Transportation 
to and from New York City will be provided.  This conference continues 
the twenty-year tradition of ten biennial workshops and 
(in 2000) the First International Conference on natural language 
generation.  The conference will precede ACL, which will be held 
July 7 to 12 in Philadelphia, a one hour train ride from New York City.

For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to natural language generation are solicited. As
always, the conference will be open to all submissions on all topics 
related to natural language generation.  We are also encouraging 
submissions on two featured topics: natural language generation 
in speech-based systems and natural language generation in document 
summarization.  There will be separate sessions and invited speakers 
on these two topics, and the program committee will include 
researchers from these areas who can contribute a unique perspective 
to research on generation.  All submissions, whether on
one of the featured topics or not, will be handled by the same
program committee.  A separate track will be offered for Student Papers.
There will also be a separate demo track.

The INLG2002 program committee invites papers describing original
research on but not limited to the following topics:

   * Featured topic: Generation in speech-based systems, including:
        o Dialog management and utterance planning in dialog
          systems
        o Models of intonation in generation
        o Concept-to-speech generation
        o Difference between spoken and written language
          generation
        o Evaluation of generation in speech-based systems
        o Applications
        This topic does NOT include papers exclusively on speech
        synthesis; INLG2002 is not an appropriate venue for such papers.
   * Featured topic: Generation and document summarization, including:
        o Content selection and integration for summarization
        o Sentence selection and generation models of paraphrase
          and coherence
        o Evaluation
        o Applications
   * Multimodal and multimedia generation
   * Multilingual generation
   * Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies,
        content selection and organization
   * Sentence realization, formalisms and models of grammar,
        sentence aggregation, lexical choice
   * Architecture of generators
   * Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and
        summarization
   * User-customized generation and summarization
   * Psychological modeling of discourse production
   * Learning methods for generation
   * Evaluation methodologies for generation
   * All applications of generation, including areas such as data
     summarization, web mining, knowledge management, and mobile
     computing

We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no
parallel tracks. There will be no separate workshops at the conference;
however, there may be generation-related workshops at ACL.  Simultaneous
submission of a paper to INLG 2002 and other conferences will be 
permitted, provided that it is clearly marked.  However, papers presented 
at INLG 2002 can only appear in the INLG 2002 proceedings.  Submission to 
the main session should describe completed work. Submission to the 
student session may describe work in progress.
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Deadlines

The deadlines are coordinated with those for ACL as follows.

 Conference               INLG                    ACL

 Paper Registration
 Deadline                 none                    January 25, 2002

 Paper Submission
 Deadline                 February 14, 2002       February 1, 2002

 Notification of
 Acceptance               April 8, 2002           April 8, 2002

 Camera ready Copies Due  May 9, 2002             May 10, 2002

 Conference               July 2-3, 2002          July 7-12, 2002

Program Committee

   * Owen Rambow, AT&T Labs -- Research (co-chair)
   * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA (co-chair)
   * Inderjeet Mani, MITRE and Georgetown University (in charge of
     "Summarization" featured topic)
   * Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs -- Research (in charge of "Spoken
        Language Systems" featured topic)

       Other members to be announced later.

Student Session Program Committee

   * Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University (chair)

       Other members to be announced later.

Local Arrangements

   * Kathy McKeown

For more information email Owen Rambow at rambow@research.att.com
or check http://www.research.att.com/~rambow/inlg/inlg.html .