*** apologies for multiple posting *** 1ST WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATIC TEXT ADAPTATION (ATA)
### Colocated with INLG 2018 at Tilburg University, Netherlands ### https://www.ida.liu.se/~evere22/ATA-18/ *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in techniques for adapting texts to the needs for various users and NLP applications. This includes studies of end users' needs for text adaptation, techniques for automatic text adaptation, user evaluation of adapted texts, and infrastructure for conducting research on text adaptation. We invite the text adaptation community and researchers and practitioners working on generating texts tailored to populations with specific needs. Examples of these include text simplification, as well as adaptation to the needs of second-language learners, and relevant applications from other areas such as machine translation, information extraction, virtual assistants, and accessibility research. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to the following: Models for text adaptation Corpora for text adaptation Evaluation of text adaptation Measuring text complexity Generating simple texts from textual data Lexical simplification Syntactic simplification Discourse and simplification Text adaptation for machine translation Text adaptation for information extraction Evaluation procedures in text adaptation *********************************************************************** SUBMISSION *********************************************************************** Submissions may have a maximum length of eight (8) pages for long papers and four (4) pages for short papers, with unlimited pages for references. All papers should be formatted following the guidelines of the main conference, see Author Instructions (https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/call- for-papers/), and should not include authors' names or any other identifying information. The submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers. To submit a paper, please access the ATA 2018 submission link at: https://www.ida.liu.se/~evere22/ATA-18/ *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES *********************************************************************** Call for workshop papers: July 15, 2018 Submissions due: September 7, 2018 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: October 17, 2018 Workshop date: November 8, 2018 (colocated with INLG 2018) *********************************************************************** ORGANIZERS *********************************************************************** Arne Jönsson Linköping University, Sweden Evelina Rennes Linköping University, Sweden Horacio Saggion Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Sanja Štajner University of Mannheim, Germany Victoria Yaneva University of Wolverhampton, UK
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