Abstract
We propose a shared task on multilingual Surface Realization, i.e., on mapping unordered and uninflected universal dependency trees to correctly ordered and inflected sentences in a number of languages. A second deeper input will be available in which, in addition, functional words, fine-grained PoS and morphological information will be removed from the input trees. The first shared task on Surface Realization was carried out in 2011 with a similar setup, with a focus on English. We think that it is time for relaunching such a shared task effort in view of the arrival of Universal Dependencies annotated treebanks for a large number of languages on the one hand, and the increasing dominance of Deep Learning, which proved to be a game changer for NLP, on the other hand.- Anthology ID:
 - W17-3517
 - Volume:
 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
 - Month:
 - September
 - Year:
 - 2017
 - Address:
 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 - Editors:
 - Jose M. Alonso, Alberto Bugarín, Ehud Reiter
 - Venue:
 - INLG
 - SIG:
 - SIGGEN
 - Publisher:
 - Association for Computational Linguistics
 - Note:
 - Pages:
 - 120–123
 - Language:
 - URL:
 - https://aclanthology.org/W17-3517
 - DOI:
 - 10.18653/v1/W17-3517
 - Cite (ACL):
 - Simon Mille, Bernd Bohnet, Leo Wanner, and Anja Belz. 2017. Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 120–123, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
 - Cite (Informal):
 - Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees (Mille et al., INLG 2017)
 - PDF:
 - https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W17-3517.pdf
 - Data
 - Universal Dependencies