SIKS-TiCC Symposium on Automatic Text-to-Text Generation 

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 

Tilburg University, Dante Building, Room DZ3 

Monolingual text-to-text generation plays an increasingly important role in natural language processing (NLP). The ability to automatically rewrite text by for example paraphrasing or compression can help improve many NLP applications. Techniques such as text simplification can also help make texts more accessible to for example people with reading disabilities. In this symposium, speakers will provide their own perspective on various text-to-text generation tasks and challenges. The symposium will be followed by the public defense of Sander Wubben's PhD Thesis, entitled "Text-to-text generation as monolingual machine translation". 
Please send an email to s.wubben@uvt.nl to register, so we know how many sandwiches to order. 


12:30 
Lunch and welcome 

13:00 
Sander Wubben (Tilburg University) - Text-to-text generation by monolingual machine translation 

13:25 
Erwin Marsi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) - Extracting deep paraphrases from an aligned monolingual treebank 

13:50 
Coffee Break 

14:00 
Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen) - Text Simplification: A comparison of handwritten rules vs rules acquired from corpora 

14:25 
Katja Filippova (Google) - Lexical features for sentence compression and the training data bottleneck 

16:00 
Public defense by Sander Wubben in the auditorium of Tilburg University