PoliScribe Selected for Inclusion

PoliScribe has developed an industry-leading natural language generation (NLG) engine that is uniquely able to (1) handle unstructured and qualitative text, (2) produce text that aligns interlocutors and considers stylistic nuance, discursive variety, and grounding strategies, and (3) produces a near infinite set of dynamic letters without using hardcoded templates.

As a result of their innovation in the space, PoliScribe is proud to have been invited to demo at the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) organised by the Artificial Intelligence Research Center of Japan. INLG 2019 is organised by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and is the preeminent conference on Natural Language Generation in the world..

PoliScribe Paper

Roughly 30% of congressional staffers in the United States report spending a “great deal” of time writing responses to constituent letters (Furnas, 2018). Letters often solicit an update on the status of legislation and a description of a congressman’s vote record or vote intention — structurable data that can be leveraged by a natural language generation system to create a coherent letter response.

The paper describes how PoliScribe, a pipeline-architectured NLG platform, constructs personalized responses to constituents inquiring about legislation. Emphasis will be placed on adapting NLG methodologies to the political domain, which entails special attention to affect, discursive variety, and rhetorical strategies that align a speaker with their interlocutor, even in cases of policy disagreement.

 
 

Conference Overview

The 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) organised by the Artificial Intelligence Research Center of Japan (AIRC, AIST), will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, Japan, October 29 - November 1, 2019. The conference takes place immediately prior to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, which will be held in Hong Kong starting November 3.

INLG 2019 is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). This year’s INLG conference will be an exciting combination of invited lectures and regular oral and poster presentations, sandwiched in between workshops and a hackathon.

Speakers

 
 

Workshops

The main INLG 2019 conference will be preceded by two half-day workshops on Tuesday morning (29 October), and followed by two more full-day workshops on Friday (1 November), all organised at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan).

Tuesday (morning), 29 October 2019

  • 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI2019). Organisers: Alejandro Catalá, Jose M. Alonso

  • 1st Workshop on AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2019). Organisers: Yoshinobu Kano, Michimasa Inaba, Fujio Toriumi, Hirotaka Osawa, Daisuke Katagami, Takashi Otsuki

Friday (full day), 1 November 2019

  • 4th Workshop on Computational Creativity in Language Generation (CC-NLG 2019). Organisers:Ben Burtenshaw, Belgium Richard Doust, Enrique Manjavacas

  • 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG. Organisers: Anusha Balakrishnan, Vera Demberg, Chandra Khatri, Abhinav Rastogi, Donia Scott, Marilyn Walker, Michael White

Location

The main conference and workshops will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, Japan.

Contact

  • Learn More or Register at https://www.inlg2019.com/

  • Email info@inlg2019.com for more information.

  • Follow INLG on Twitter: @INLG2019

Organizing Committee

Programme Chairs:

Workshop Chairs:

Other Chairs:

  • Riza Batista (University of Manchester, UK) (Tutorial and Invited Speaker Chair)

  • Sebastian Gehrmann (Harvard University, US) (Publicity Chair)

  • Xiao Li (University of Aberdeen, UK) (Publication Chair)

Local Organising Committee: