@inproceedings{mille-etal-2017-shared,
    title = "Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using {U}niversal {D}ependency Trees",
    author = "Mille, Simon  and
      Bohnet, Bernd  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Belz, Anja",
    editor = "Alonso, Jose M.  and
      Bugar{\'i}n, Alberto  and
      Reiter, Ehud",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Santiago de Compostela, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-3517/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-3517",
    pages = "120--123",
    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."
}