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| A workshop to be held at the German Annual Conference on AI, KI-99, in Bonn, Germany, September 13-15, 1999 |
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| A Workshop of the Special Interest Group 1.3.1 on Natural Language Systems of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. |
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The workshop took place at the University of Bonn, Institut für Informatik, Römerstr. 164, Room A121.
| Tuesday, 14 Sep 1999, 15:30 - 19:00 | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Stephan Busemann and Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken: Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Kees van
Deemter, ITRI, Brighton, Emiel Kramer, Mariët Theune, IPO, Eindhoven: Plan-based vs. template-based NLG: a false opposition? |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen: Shallow vs. Deep Techniques for Handling Linguistic Constraints and Optimisations |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | John Bateman, University of Bremen, Renate Henschel, HCRC, University of Edinburgh: From full generation to `near-templates' without loosing generality |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Jo Calder, University of Edinburgh, Roger Evans, University of Brighton, Chris
Mellish, Mike Reape, University of Edinburgh:
"Free choice" and templates: how to get both at the same time |
| 17:45 - ~19:00 | Discussion and System Demonstration |
| Wednesday, 15 Sep 1999, 10:50 - 12:50 | |
| 10:50 - 11:50 | INVITED TALK Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG, Ulm: Time to get real: Current and future requirements for generation in speech and natural language from an industrial perspective |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Boyd Buchin, Ulf Schmerl, Universität der Bundeswehr München: TextPro - A Method of Generating Texts from a Formal Language into Natural Languages |
| 12:20 - 12:50 | Hercules Dalianis, KTH and Stockholm University: The VOLVEX Handbook - A general validation tool by natural language generation for the STEP/EXPRESS standard |
| Lunch Break | |
| Wednesday, 15 Sep 1999, 13:30 - 16:30 | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Annette Fritsch, Eric Cousin, Phillipe Tanguy, ENST Bretagne: A Multilingual Text Generator for Real-Time WEB-Communication |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sabine Geldof, Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Templates for Wearables in Context |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Amanda Stent, University of Rochester: Content planning and generation in continuous-speech spoken dialog systems |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Lena Santamarta, Linköping University: Output Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Conclusions - an open discussion with all participants |
Dr. Tilman Becker and Dr. Stephan Busemann
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbrücken
(+49) 681-302-5271 and -5286 (phone)
(+49) 681-302-5341 and -5338 (fax)
becker@dfki.de and busemann@dfki.de