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# INLG 2021 — accepted papers

INLG 2021 is the 2021 edition of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), held in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, August 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 45 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**45** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2021/#works) · [**6** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2021/#works)**Aberdeen, Scotland, UK** where it was held**August 2021** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.14/)**Emiel van Miltenburg, Miruna Clinciu, Ondřej Dušek et al.*25 citations*
2. **[Controllable Sentence Simplification with a Unified Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.38/)**Kim Cheng Sheang, Horacio Saggion*23 citations*
3. **[The ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.24/)**Anya Belz, Anastasia Shimorina, Shubham Agarwal et al.*20 citations*
4. **[Generating Racing Game Commentary from Vision, Language, and Structured Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.11/)**Tatsuya Ishigaki, Goran Topic, Yumi Hamazono et al.*18 citations*
5. **[Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.45/)**Juraj Juraska, Marilyn Walker*17 citations*
6. **[Towards Zero-Shot Multilingual Synthetic Question and Answer Generation for Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.4/)**Siamak Shakeri, Noah Constant, Mihir Kale et al.*15 citations*
7. **[Goal-Oriented Script Construction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.19/)**Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch*14 citations*
8. **[BERT-based distractor generation for Swedish reading comprehension questions using a small-scale dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.43/)**Dmytro Kalpakchi, Johan Boye*13 citations*
9. **[DialogSum Challenge: Summarizing Real-Life Scenario Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.33/)**Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Yue Zhang*13 citations*
10. **[Generation Challenges: Results of the Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.23/)**Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter*13 citations*

## All accepted papers (45)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.14/)**Emiel van Miltenburg, Miruna Clinciu, Ondřej Dušek et al.*25 citations*
2. **[Controllable Sentence Simplification with a Unified Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.38/)**Kim Cheng Sheang, Horacio Saggion*23 citations*
3. **[The ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.24/)**Anya Belz, Anastasia Shimorina, Shubham Agarwal et al.*20 citations*
4. **[Generating Racing Game Commentary from Vision, Language, and Structured Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.11/)**Tatsuya Ishigaki, Goran Topic, Yumi Hamazono et al.*18 citations*
5. **[Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.45/)**Juraj Juraska, Marilyn Walker*17 citations*
6. **[Towards Zero-Shot Multilingual Synthetic Question and Answer Generation for Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.4/)**Siamak Shakeri, Noah Constant, Mihir Kale et al.*15 citations*
7. **[Goal-Oriented Script Construction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.19/)**Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch*14 citations*
8. **[BERT-based distractor generation for Swedish reading comprehension questions using a small-scale dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.43/)**Dmytro Kalpakchi, Johan Boye*13 citations*
9. **[DialogSum Challenge: Summarizing Real-Life Scenario Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.33/)**Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Yue Zhang*13 citations*
10. **[Generation Challenges: Results of the Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.23/)**Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter*13 citations*
11. **[Biomedical Data-to-Text Generation via Fine-Tuning Transformers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.40/)**Ruslan Yermakov, Nicholas Drago, Angelo Ziletti*12 citations*
12. **[Multi-Sentence Knowledge Selection in Open-Domain Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.9/)**Mihail Eric, Nicole Chartier, Behnam Hedayatnia et al.*12 citations*
13. **[Examining Covert Gender Bias: A Case Study in Turkish and English Machine Translation Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.7/)**Chloe Ciora, Nur Iren, Malihe Alikhani*11 citations*
14. **[SEPRG: Sentiment aware Emotion controlled Personalized Response Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.39/)**Mauajama Firdaus, Umang Jain, Asif Ekbal et al.*9 citations*
15. **[Shared Task on Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.35/)**Ryo Nagata, Masato Hagiwara, Kazuaki Hanawa et al.*8 citations*
16. **[Affective Decoding for Empathetic Response Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.37/)**Chengkun Zeng, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin et al.*7 citations*
17. **[GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graph ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.42/)**Hong Chen, Raphael Shu, Hiroya Takamura et al.*7 citations*
18. **[A Reproduction Study of an Annotation-based Human Evaluation of MT Outputs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.31/)**Maja Popović, Anya Belz*6 citations*
19. **[Enriching the E2E dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.18/)**Thiago Castro Ferreira, Helena Vaz, Brian Davis et al.*6 citations*
20. **[Another PASS: A Reproduction Study of the Human Evaluation of a Football Report Generation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.30/)**Simon Mille, Thiago Castro Ferreira, Anya Belz et al.*5 citations*
21. **[Quality Evaluation of the Low-Resource Synthetically Generated Code-Mixed Hinglish Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.34/)**Vivek Srivastava, Mayank Singh*5 citations*
22. **[Chefbot: A Novel Framework for the Generation of Commonsense-enhanced Responses for Task-based Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.5/)**Carl Strathearn, Dimitra Gkatzia*4 citations*
23. **[Contextualizing Variation in Text Style Transfer Datasets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.22/)**Stephanie Schoch, Wanyu Du, Yangfeng Ji*3 citations*
24. **[Decoding, Fast and Slow: A Case Study on Balancing Trade-Offs in Incremental, Character-level Pragmatic Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zarriess-2021-decoding-fast-slow-case-study/)**Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier, Ting Han et al.*3 citations · our summary*
25. **[Neural Methodius Revisited: Do Discourse Relations Help with Pre-Trained Models Too? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.2/)**Aleksandre Maskharashvili, Symon Stevens-Guille, Xintong Li et al.*3 citations*

[See all 45 papers in INLG 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

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

1. **[Decoding, Fast and Slow: A Case Study on Balancing Trade-Offs in Incremental, Character-level Pragmatic Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zarriess-2021-decoding-fast-slow-case-study/) [International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/)**Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier, Ting Han, et al.*2021 · 6 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Hendrik Buschmeier**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hendrik-buschmeier/) · [🧑‍🔬**Simeon Schüz**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simeon-schuz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sina Zarrieß**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sina-zarriess/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Bielefeld University** Bielefeld · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bielefeld-university/) · [🔬**Artificial Intelligence Research Center** Tokyo · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/artificial-intelligence-research-center/)

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

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