* International Conf on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2021) - Call for Participation 20-24 September 2021 (online and Aberdeen, UK) Website: https://inlg2021.github.io/ <https://inlg2021.github.io/> Email: inlgmeeting@gmail.com <inlgmeeting@gmail.com> Welcome to INLG 2021! If you’re interested in Natural Language Generation, please come to INLG, which is a great venue where you can meet and interact with other members of the NLG community, as well as hear scientific presentations about the latest NLG research. Highlights: The conference will mainly be online, and will include - Papers: 31 scientific papers on a very broad range of NLG topics - Generation Challenges: results of 2 shared tasks (Evaluating Accuracy and Reproducibility of Human Evaluations) and proposals for 4 new shared tasks. - Invited Speakers: Tim Bickmore will speak about “Health Counseling Dialogue Systems: Promise and Peril”, and Natalie Schluter will speak (title to-be-announced) - Panel: Adam Sam (Monok), Ross Turner (Arria), Robert Weißgraeber (Ax Semantics), and Michelle Zhou (Juji) will lead a discussion on What Users Want from Real-World NLG - Tutorial: Dave Howcroft will present a tutorial on Crowdsourcing Experiments and Platforms - Birds of a Feather: discussion sessions for selected NLG topics. - Social sessions: for making new friends and catching up with old friends. We plan to have extra activities for people who can physically come to Aberdeen. Details to-be-announced, please contact inlgmeeting@gmail.com <inlgmeeting@gmail.com> for more information. Schedule: All online events will be between 1200 and 1900 (UK time). We plan to have extra events for physical attendees in the mornings, and organise meals at night. Monday, 20 Sep: Tutorial and a collocated event, BigScience Workshop (http://bigscience.huggingface.co/ <http://bigscience.huggingface.co/>) Tuesday, 21 Sep to Thursday, 23 Sep: Main conference Friday, 24 Sep: Excursion to Dunnottar Castle (for physical attendees) (to-be-confirmed) Registration You can register at https://abbey.eventsair.com/inlg-2021/registration-form <https://abbey.eventsair.com/inlg-2021/registration-form> Early registration will close on 5 September. Rates are £50 for students and £100 for non-students. If you cannot afford the registration fee, please email inlgmeeting@gmail.com <inlgmeeting@gmail.com> and explain your circumstances, we may be able to offer a reduced rate. Sponsors We are very grateful for the generous support we have received from Arria NLG, Ax Semantics, Google, and Hugging Face. * ---- David M. Howcroft https://www.davehowcroft.com