First Call for Papers: CC-NLG (Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation)
A workshop at INLG 2016, September 5th/6th, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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This workshop aims to bring together researchers dealing with text generation from a computational creativity perspective, and researchers in natural language generation with an interest in creative aspects. These two communities have been working separately for many years, as the focus in each one of them has been different: creativity research tends to be less focused on technical issues in natural language generation, and more on issues related to cognition, aesthetics, and novelty; while NLG research tends to focus on technical and theoretical aspects of processes, and information content and readability of output. However, recent progress in both fields is reducing many of these differences — with creativity projects moving more towards robust implementation, and NLG research including stylistics, variation and literary genres such as poetry or narrative — and we believe they are approaching the point where they can mutually benefit from ongoing work. By encouraging members of both communities to discuss work in related topics with each other, we hope to move towards better joint understanding of the problems involved.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Poetry Generation
* Story Generation
* Generation of Metaphor, Figurative and Rhetorical Language
* Personality and Emotion in NLG
* Creative Data-to-Text Models
* Interactive Language Generation
* Character-based Generation
Submissions should follow the INLG submission format and length limits for long papers: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/Inter
Important dates:
* Submissions due: June 10, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: July 8, 2016
* Camera-ready papers due: August 5, 2016
* Workshop: TBD but one of September 5-6, 2016
Organising Committee:
Pablo Gervás, Carlos León, Gonzalo Méndez – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Matthew Purver, Sascha Griffiths, Geraint Wiggins – Queen Mary University of London
Provisional Programme Committee:
David Elson
Pablo Gervás
Mark Granroth-Wilding
Sascha Griffiths
Cyril Labbé
Carlos León
Maria Teresa Llano Rodriguez
Stephen McGregor
François Portet
Matthew Purver
Ehud Reiter
Advaith Siddharthan
Hannu Toivonen
Alessandro Valitutti
Pierre-Luc Vaudry
Tony Veale
Geraint Wiggins