INLG 2020

The International Conference on Natural Language Generation will take place online from 15-18 December 2020. Visit for further information.

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be super flexible and add networking session to the program while the conference was already running. Thanks to the area chairs, the program committee and everyone involved in the planning! See you all in Aberdeen next year.

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Thank you all for participating in #INLG2020 and making it a very social experience, despite the physical distance! Special thanks to all authors and speakers for sharing their work and knowledge with us. Brian and the @AdaptCentre team had already planned the physical conference

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and then had to switch to an online format, and based on your feedback so far it’s safe to say they did a great job! Big shoutout also to @abbeyconference. They made that switch possible, made all the heavy lifting in the background of the conference platform and helped us to

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@bertugatt Thanks!

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@Saad_M Thanks! See you next year!

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@Stephness36 Thanks! See you next year :)

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JUST STARTED NOW -- Kristina Striegnitz's invited talk at #NLG4HRI @INLG2020 talking about the GIVE challenges.

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I can get behind all of these conclusions from @mari_fomicheva's excellent keynote at #INLG2020 #EvalNLGEval, especially the need to pay attention to the properties of human evaluations used as gold standard👇

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Excited to begin the second workshop on #NLG for #HRI at @INLG2020. First talk is from Hannes Ritschel and colleagues about multimodal joke generation for social robots. (For clarity, we are watching on @hbuschme's screen :) )

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Congratulations to @tuetschek and @ZdenekKasner!

Their paper "Evaluating Semantic Accuracy of Data-to-Text Generation with Natural Language Inference" won the #INLG2020 best short paper award.

https://t.co/9W3IvcyEVz

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Congratulations to @anyabelz, Simon Mille, and @_dmh!

Their paper "Disentangling the Properties of Human Evaluation Methods: A Classification System to Support Comparability, Meta-Evaluation and Reproducibility Testing" won the best long paper award!

https://t.co/L1CAczXVgQ

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Two of the workshops can also be found on Twitter 👉 @NL4XAI @WebNLG

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We hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s social event. Today is the last day of #INLG2020. We have four exiting workshops to come with great interactive session formats!

https://t.co/cKtvr7XvlA

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We will add two more networking sessions during the coffee breaks today in addition to the lunch networking session and our social event in the evening, because you all can’t get enough of talking to each other 🥳 #INLG2020

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Our second session is about to start! You can also use the meeting hub at any time to make connections and have 1-to-1 conservations. Additionally, we will have two networking sessions, today during lunch, sponsored by @ArriaNLG, and tomorrow during lunch, sponsored by @Google.

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@AmyIsard We have two more networking sessions, one today during lunch, sponsored by @ArriaNLG and one tomorrow during lunch sponsored by @GoogleDE

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@AmyIsard Glad you enjoyed it! I will see what we can do (technically) with regard to the lunch breaks.

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Some statistics:

We received 119 papers of which 27 long papers, 15 short papers, one demo paper, and three generation challenge papers were accepted.

The acceptance rate is 38%.
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The main conference is starting! Login now for the opening session and the session on Data-To-Text Generation! #INLG2020