Call for Special Issue 2020: Natural Language Generation

Call for Special Issue 2020: Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the sub-field of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics that is concerned with the construction of computational systems that can produce understandable texts from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information.

In this regard, NLG addresses the data-value chain by translating information on raw data into natural language, offering a natural way to communicate complex information to users.

The purpose of this special issue is to publish the results of recent and prominent developments in the field of NLG, an area that has seen a marked increase of interest in both academia and industry in recent years.

Journal also welcome works with a focus on the connections between NLG and neighbouring areas of research, such as Machine Translation, dialogue & chatbots, and summarization, which face some of the same intellectual challenges as NLG.

Topic of Interest

This special issue will be soliciting papers on the following general topics related to NLG (but are not limited to):

•  Affect/emotion generation
•  Applications for people with disabilities
•  Cognitive modelling of language production
•  Content and text planning
•  Corpora for NLG
•  Ethical considerations of NLG
•  Deep learning models for NLG
•  Evaluation of NLG systems
•  Generalizability of NLG systems
•  Grounded language generation
•  Lexicalisation
•  Multimedia and multimodality in generation
•  Storytelling and narrative generation
•  NLG and accessibility
•  NLG in dialogue
•  NLG for embodied agents and robots
•  NLG for real-world applications
•  Paraphrasing and Summarisation
•  Personalisation and variation in text
•  Referring expression generation
•  Resources for NLG
•  Surface realisation
•  Systems architecture
•  NLG and Machine Translation
•  NLG and speech synthesis
•  Natural Language Understanding Techniques for NLG

Before submission, the authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines.

Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal online submission system. Please choose “VSI: Special Issue on NLG” when you reach the “Article Type” during the submission process.

Journal Name: Computer Speech and Language An official publication of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

Impact Factor

• CiteScore: 2.83 ℹ
• Impact Factor: 1.857 ℹ
• 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.945 ℹ
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.659 ℹ
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.528

Abstracting and Indexing

• Scopus
• INSPEC
• UnCover
• Ei Compendex
• Web of Science
• Pascal Francis
• Social SciSearch
• Gale Database of Publications & Broadcast Media
• Inside Conferences
• Arts & Humanities Search

Important Dates of the special issue

Submission deadline: 01 February 2020

Acceptance: 01 September 2020

Guest Editors for the Special Issue

• Chenghua Lin, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK ([email protected])
• Kees van Deemter, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ([email protected])
• Hiroya Takamura, Advanced Information Processing Division, Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIST), Japan ([email protected])
• Wenge Rong, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China ([email protected])