Invited Speakers

Claire Gardent, LORIA, Nancy France

Claire Gardent is a senior researcher at CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research). She is also affiliated with the LORIA Computer Science research unit in Nancy, France.

Research Interests:
automatic acquisition of lexical resources for French, syntactic parsing and semantic role labelling; text generation; virtual worlds and natural language processing

Josef van Genabith, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany

Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith is Scientific Director for Language and Multilingual Technologies (MLT) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Full Professor and Chair of Translation-Oriented Language Technologies at Saarland University.

Research Interests:
Multilingual technologies including machine translation, language understanding and language generation.

Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen and Arria, UK

Ehud Reiter is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen and also Chief Scientist of Arria NLG.
He has worked on natural language generation for the past 30 years, on methodology (including evaluation) and resources as well as algorithms, and is one of the most cited authors in NLG.

Research Interests:
Natural language generation, Data-to-text