WebNLG 2015 - First International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web

The WebNLG2015 workshop is funded by the French ANR funded project WebNLG and jointly organised by LORIA/CNRS, Nancy and ITIS/LIST, Luxemburg.
With the development of the Semantic Web technology and the advent of Linked Data, the connection between Natural Language Generation (NLG) and the Semantic Web (SW) is rapidly strengthening.
On one hand, the two fields relate because SW applications make use of NLG technology. Examples of this are Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs) to access structured data or ontology verbalisers.
On the other hand, similar problems are tackled by both communities and there are in fact strong parallels between some of the current SW work and the different steps involved in generating data, namely, content selection, content planning, lexicalisation, aggregation and surface realisation. For instance, SW applications aim at providing methods to facilitate the exploration by the user of possibly big datasets; from the NLG point of view this is a content selection problem. Similarly, because it relates words to data, work on semantic annotation (e.g. wikification, relation extraction) is relevant for lexicalisation while pattern extraction has clear connections with the template extraction phase often resorted to in the surface realisation step of the NLG process.
The goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion and exchange of related research on NLG and the SW. The workshop invites the submission of abstracts, e.g. on work in progress, system demonstrations, a negative result, an opinion piece or a summary of research activities.