Hi everyone, if you have any proposal for a shared task related to NLG, don't hesitate to submit it to the GenChal special session at the next INLG, for publicising and/or discussing it with the NLG community! Info below.

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GenChal @ 16th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Prague, Czech Republic, September 11-15 2023

INLG Twitter: @inlgmeeting

INLG website:https://inlg2023.github.io/

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Call for new Shared Task proposals

Submission deadline: June 5th 2023

We invite submissions of papers describing ideas for future shared tasks in the general area of language generation (Generation Challenges 2023). Proposed tasks can be in the area of core NLG, or in other research areas in which language is generated. Examples include, but are not limited to: data-to-text NLG, text-to-text generation (including MT and summarisation), combining core NLG and MT, combining core NLG and text summarisation, NLG quality estimation, NLG evaluation metrics, and/or generating language from heterogeneous data, including image and video.

The Generation Challenges (GenChal) are an umbrella event designed to bring together a variety of shared-task efforts that involve the generation of natural language. This year, Generation Challenges will be held during a special session at the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2023 https://inlg2023.github.io/), scheduled on September 11-15 2023. The session will follow the format of previous GenChal results sessions, with presentations of results by the organisers of the generation challenges that are currently running, a poster session for task participants to present their submissions, as well as presentations of proposals for new shared tasks in the Task Proposals Track, and discussion sessions. You can see the previous GenChal tasks on the dedicated repository https://sites.google.com/view/genchalrepository/home.

Submissions should describe possible future tasks in detail, including information regarding organisers, task description, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context, size and state of completion of data to be used, schedule and evaluation plans. Accepted shared tasks will be run in the 2024 iteration of INLG.

Important dates (the dates on the website will be updated soon)

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Submission deadline: June 5th 2023 -

Notification: July 11th 2023 -

Camera-ready submission: July 25th 2023 -

INLG conference: September 11th-15th 2023

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").

Submissions and format

Submissions in the Shared Task Proposals track should be no more than 4 (four) pages long excluding citations, and should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html and template files https://2021.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ijcnlp2021-templates.zip.

Proposals should be uploaded to the SoftConf https://softconf.com/n/inlg2023/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=11 GenChal submission page, using the Submission type New shared task proposal.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will not be blind, there is no need to anonymise papers.

This is not intended to be a selective process, since the aim is to discuss new potential shared tasks with INLG delegates. However, the organisers reserve the right to reject proposals which do not fall within the scope of the GenChal initiative, or which do not follow guidelines. Accepted submissions will be published in separate GenChal 2023 proceedings on the ACL Anthology, as was done in 2022 https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.inlg-genchal/.

Looking forward to seeing you at INLG!

Simon, GenChal chair, on behalf of the INLG'23 organisers

simon.mille@adaptcentre.ie

*ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *-* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*