IGGEN (Ehud Reiter, Daniel Marcu)

        Report on SIGGEN 98-99

An election for SIGGEN board was held in October 1998, via email.
There were 6 candidates for regular board member, of which 4 were elected,
and 2 candidates for student board member, of which one was elected.
The new board members are Irene Langkilde (ISI, USA; student member),
Daniel Marcu (ISI, USA), Maria Milosavljevic (Dynamic Multimedia Pty Ltd,
Australia), Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen, UK), and Keith Vander Linden
(Calvin College, USA). None of the new members had previously served on
the SIGGEN board.

Activities after the election include
* a new and expanded Web site (http://www.dynamicmultimedia.com.au/siggen)
* a new-look email newsletter (back issues available on the Web page)
* an open discussion (again via the Web page) on the future of the
  International Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLGW) and other NLG
  events.
Future plans include creating an archive of NLG material, both technical
(eg, an NLG bibliography) and organisational (eg, information on the
organisation of NLG workshops).