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               9th International Workshop on 
               NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

               5-7 August 1998

               Prince of Wales Hotel 
               Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada


               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
		  

               For more information and registration forms, visit  
               http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 


Preliminary details of the program and registration information and
forms are now available for the 9th biennial Workshop on Natural
Language Generation.  The workshop is to be held in the scenic town of
Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada, on 5-7
August 1998.

The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including: discourse structure;
grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

The program includes approximately 30 papers, demonstrations, and a
panel session to be presented over 2 1/2 days. (The complete list of
accepted papers is on the conference Web site.)  In addition, the
social program includes an opening reception on the evening of 4 August
and an outing to Niagara Falls with dinner at the top of the Skylon
Tower.

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, easily accessible from Toronto
International Airport, is in the heart of one of Canada's major
fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from Niagara
Falls.  It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with many fine
examples of Victorian architecture.  Niagara-on-the-Lake bills itself
as the prettiest town in Canada: its main streets are quaint and
picturesque, with many interesting shops, cafes, and restaurants.  It
is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one of the top North American
repertory theatre companies.

The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).

The workshop is to be held in the week immediately prior to the joint
conference of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998).
After the workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend
COLING / ACL directly to the Toronto train station, for an express
train to Montreal.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop is organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University of
Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto.  The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.

General workshop questions: 
  Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443


PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

  Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair) 
  Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken 
  Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside 
  Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland 
  Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto 
  Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto 
  Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal 
  Daniel Marcu, USI/ISI, Marina del Rey
  Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken 
  Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh 
  Marie Meteer, BBN 
  Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh 
  Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney 
  Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca 
  Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen 
  Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney 
  Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park 


For more information, program, and registration forms, visit the 
INLG-98 Website:
  http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98