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Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

Program Co-Chairs
Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO – ICT Centre)
Cécile Paris (CSIRO – ICT Centre)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO – ICT Centre and Macquarie University)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University)

Special Session Co-Chairs
Anja Belz (University of Brighton)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University)

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Front matter bib
Lessons Learned from Large Scale Evaluation of Systems that Produce Text: Nightmares and Pleasant Surprises
Kathleen R. McKeown
pp. 3–5 bib
A Generation-Oriented Workbench for Performance Grammar: Capturing Linear Order Variability in German and Dutch
Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen, Camiel van Breugel and Ulrich Koch
pp. 9–11 bib
CCG Chart Realization from Disjunctive Inputs
Michael White
pp. 12–19 bib
Overgeneration and Ranking for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sebastian Varges
pp. 20–22 bib
Individuality and Alignment in Generated Dialogues
Amy Isard, Carsten Brockmann and Jon Oberlander
pp. 25–32 bib
Using Distributional Similarity to Identify Individual Verb Choice
Jing Lin
pp. 33–40 bib
Adjective-to-Verb Paraphrasing in Japanese Based on Lexical Constraints of Verbs
Atsushi Fujita, Naruaki Masuno, Satoshi Sato and Takehito Utsuro
pp. 41–43 bib
Generating References to Parts of Recursively Structured Objects
Helmut Horacek
pp. 47–54 bib
Overspecified Reference in Hierarchical Domains: Measuring the Benefits for Readers
Ivandré Paraboni, Judith Masthoff and Kees van Deemter
pp. 55–62 bib
Algorithms for Generating Referring Expressions: Do They Do What People Do?
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale
pp. 63–70 bib
Group-Based Generation of Referring Expressions
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe and Takenobu Tokunaga
pp. 73–80 bib
Noun Phrase Generation for Situated Dialogs
Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalene Shockley, Donna K. Byron and Eric Fosler-Lussier
pp. 81–88 bib
The Clarity-Brevity Trade-off in Generating Referring Expressions
Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Graeme Ritchie and Kees van Deemter
pp. 89–91 bib
Generic Querying of Relational Databases using Natural Language Generation Techniques
Catalina Hallett
pp. 95–102 bib
Generating Intelligent Numerical Answers in a Question-Answering System
Véronique Moriceau
pp. 103–110 bib
Generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from Medical Text: A Pilot Study
Nikiforos Karamanis, Le An Ha and Ruslan Mitkov
pp. 111–113 bib
Generation of Biomedical Arguments for Lay Readers
Nancy Green
pp. 114–121 bib
Introduction to the INLG’06 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation
Anja Belz and Robert Dale
pp. 125–126 bib
Evaluations of NLG Systems: Common Corpus and Tasks or Common Dimensions and Metrics?
Cécile Paris, Nathalie Colineau and Ross Wilkinson
pp. 127–129 bib
Building a Semantically Transparent Corpus for the Generation of Referring Expressions.
Kees van Deemter, Ielka van der Sluis and Albert Gatt
pp. 130–132 bib
Shared-Task Evaluations in HLT: Lessons for NLG
Anja Belz and Adam Kilgarriff
pp. 133–135 bib
GENEVAL: A Proposal for Shared-task Evaluation in NLG
Ehud Reiter and Anja Belz
pp. 136–138 bib