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# INLG 2016 — accepted papers

INLG 2016 is the 2016 edition of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), held in Edinburgh, UK, September 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 44 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**44** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2016/#works) · [**188** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2016/#works)**Edinburgh, UK** where it was held**September 2016** when

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Generating English from Abstract Meaning Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pourdamghani-2016-generating-english-abstract-meaning-representations/)**Nima Pourdamghani, Kevin Knight, Ulf Hermjakob*66 citations · our summary*
2. **[The WebNLG Challenge: Generating Text from DBPedia Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6626/)**Emilie Colin, Claire Gardent, Yassine M'rabet et al.*60 citations*
3. **[Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6644/)**Jekaterina Novikova, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser*47 citations*
4. **[Unsupervised Sentence Simplification Using Deep Semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2016-unsupervised-sentence-simplification-deep-semantics/)**Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent*47 citations · our summary*
5. **[Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6609/)**Karen Mazidi, Paul Tarau*36 citations*
6. **[SimpleNLG-IT: adapting SimpleNLG to Italian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6630/)**Alessandro Mazzei, Cristina Battaglino, Cristina Bosco*35 citations*
7. **[On the verbalization patterns of part-whole relations in isiZulu ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6629/)**C. Maria Keet, Langa Khumalo*30 citations*
8. **[Paraphrase Generation from Latent-Variable PCFGs for Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6625/)**Shashi Narayan, Siva Reddy, Shay B. Cohen*21 citations*
9. **[Statistical Natural Language Generation from Tabular Non-textual Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6624/)**Joy Mahapatra, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay*18 citations*
10. **[Automatic label generation for news comment clusters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6610/)**Ahmet Aker, Monica Paramita, Emina Kurtic et al.*17 citations*

## All accepted papers (44)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Generating English from Abstract Meaning Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pourdamghani-2016-generating-english-abstract-meaning-representations/)**Nima Pourdamghani, Kevin Knight, Ulf Hermjakob*66 citations · our summary*
2. **[The WebNLG Challenge: Generating Text from DBPedia Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6626/)**Emilie Colin, Claire Gardent, Yassine M'rabet et al.*60 citations*
3. **[Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6644/)**Jekaterina Novikova, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser*47 citations*
4. **[Unsupervised Sentence Simplification Using Deep Semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2016-unsupervised-sentence-simplification-deep-semantics/)**Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent*47 citations · our summary*
5. **[Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6609/)**Karen Mazidi, Paul Tarau*36 citations*
6. **[SimpleNLG-IT: adapting SimpleNLG to Italian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6630/)**Alessandro Mazzei, Cristina Battaglino, Cristina Bosco*35 citations*
7. **[On the verbalization patterns of part-whole relations in isiZulu ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6629/)**C. Maria Keet, Langa Khumalo*30 citations*
8. **[Paraphrase Generation from Latent-Variable PCFGs for Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6625/)**Shashi Narayan, Siva Reddy, Shay B. Cohen*21 citations*
9. **[Statistical Natural Language Generation from Tabular Non-textual Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6624/)**Joy Mahapatra, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay*18 citations*
10. **[Automatic label generation for news comment clusters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6610/)**Ahmet Aker, Monica Paramita, Emina Kurtic et al.*17 citations*
11. **[Good Automatic Authentication Question Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6632/)**Simon Woo, Zuyao Li, Jelena Mirkovic*10 citations*
12. **[Ranking Automatically Generated Questions Using Common Human Queries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6635/)**Yllias Chali, Sina Golestanirad*10 citations*
13. **[Summarising News Stories for Children ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6601/)**Iain Macdonald, Advaith Siddharthan*10 citations*
14. **[The Multilingual Affective Soccer Corpus (MASC): Compiling a biased parallel corpus on soccer reportage in English, German and Dutch ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6612/)**Nadine Braun, Martijn Goudbeek, Emiel Krahmer*10 citations*
15. **[Towards Generating Colour Terms for Referents in Photographs: Prefer the Expected or the Unexpected? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6642/)**Sina Zarrieß, David Schlangen*10 citations*
16. **[When to Plummet and When to Soar: Corpus Based Verb Selection for Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6606/)**Charese Smiley, Vassilis Plachouras, Frank Schilder et al.*10 citations*
17. **[Designing Algorithms for Referring with Proper Names ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6605/)**Kees van Deemter*9 citations*
18. **[Discourse-Driven Narrative Generation With Bipartite Planning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6602/)**David Winer, R. Michael Young*9 citations*
19. **[Improving Fluency in Narrative Text Generation With Grammatical Transformations and Probabilistic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6611/)**Emily Ahn, Fabrizio Morbini, Andrew Gordon*9 citations*
20. **[Challenges of Argument Mining: Generating an Argument Synthesis based on the Qualia Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6613/)**Patrick Saint-Dizier*8 citations*
21. **[Collecting Reliable Human Judgements on Machine-Generated Language: The Case of the QG-STEC Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6634/)**Keith Godwin, Paul Piwek*8 citations*
22. **[Task demands and individual variation in referring expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6615/)**Adriana Baltaretu, Thiago Castro Ferreira*7 citations*
23. **[The aNALoGuE Challenge: Non Aligned Language GEneration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6627/)**Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser*7 citations*
24. **[Generating summaries of hospitalizations: A new metric to assess the complexity of medical terms and their definitions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6604/)**Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew D. Boyd et al.*6 citations*
25. **[QGASP: a Framework for Question Generation Based on Different Levels of Linguistic Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-6640/)**Hugo Patinho Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Eric Nyberg*6 citations*

[See all 44 papers in INLG 2016 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2016/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**Generating English from Abstract Meaning Representations**Nima Pourdamghani, Kevin Knight, Ulf Hermjakob*2016 · 111 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pourdamghani-2016-generating-english-abstract-meaning-representations/)
2. [**Unsupervised Sentence Simplification Using Deep Semantics**Shashi Narayan, Claire Gardent*2016 · 76 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2016-unsupervised-sentence-simplification-deep-semantics/)
3. [**Enhancing PTB Universal Dependencies for Grammar-Based Surface Realization**David L. King, Michael White*2016 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/king-2016-enhancing-ptb-universal-dependencies-grammar/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Machine translation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Kevin Knight**1 work here · 111 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nima Pourdamghani**1 work here · 111 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nima-pourdamghani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ulf Hermjakob**1 work here · 111 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ulf-hermjakob/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Gardent**1 work here · 76 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-gardent/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shashi Narayan**1 work here · 76 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashi-narayan/) · [🧑‍🔬**David King**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-king/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael White**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications** Nancy · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-lorrain-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-ses-applications/) · [🎓**The Ohio State University** Columbus · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-ohio-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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