Organization

INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD). The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

 

Program chairs

  • Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Martijn Goudbeek (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Albert Gatt (Malta University, Malta)

 

Workshop chairs

  • Sina Zarrieß (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Mariët Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

 

Local organising committee

  • Nadine Braun (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Thiago Castro Ferreira (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Ákos Kádár (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Ruud Koolen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Chris van der Lee (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Lauraine de Lima (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Fons Maes (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Charlotte Out (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Steffen Pauws (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Ruben Vromans (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Bram Willemsen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Jan de Wit (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

 

Hackathon organisation

  • Yaji Sripada (University of Aberdeen, Arria NLG, UK)

 

Generation challenges special session organisation

  • Ondrej Dusek (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
  • Alexander M. Rush (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
  • Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)

Program Committee

  • Jose Alonso (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)
  • Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)
  • Alberto Bugarín Diz (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)
  • Thiago Castro Ferreira (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)
  • Kees van Deemter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  • Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK)
  • Ondrej Dusek (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
  • Nikos Engonopoulos (University of Saarland, Germany)
  • Claire Gardent (LORIA-CNRS, France)
  • Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta)
  • Lorenzo Gatti (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
  • Pablo Gervás (UCM, Spain)
  • Dimitra Gkatzia (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
  • Martijn Goudbeek (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Aki Harma (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
  • Helen Hastie (Heriot Watt University, UK)
  • David M. Howcroft (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
  • Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Ákos Kádár (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • John Kelleher (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
  • Ioannis Konstas (University of Washington, USA)
  • Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Cyril Labbe (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
  • Gerasimos Lampouras (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada)
  • Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)
  • Saad Mahamood (Arria NLG, UK)
  • David McDonald (SIFT, USA)
  • Simon Mille (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • Emiel van Miltenburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Diego Moussallem (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
  • Steffen Pauws (Philips Research/Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Paul Piwek (The Open University, UK)
  • François Portet (University Grenoble, France)
  • Alejandro Ramos Soto (CiTIUS-USC, Spain)
  • Ehud Reiter (Arria NLG/University of Aberdeen, UK)
  • Alexander M. Rush (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
  • Daniel Sanchez (University of Granada, Spain)
  • David Schlangen (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
  • Advaith Siddharthan (The Open University, UK)
  • Somayajulu Sripada (University of Aberdeen/Arria NLG, UK)
  • Kristina Striegnitz (Union College, USA)
  • Marc Tanti (University of Malta, Malta)
  • Mariët Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
  • Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College, USA)
  • Marilyn Walker (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
  • Leo Wanner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • Michael White (Ohio State University, USA)
  • Sander Wubben (Flow.ai/Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)