SIGGEN annual report for the period July 2004 to June 2005

SIGGEN, the special interest group in Natural Language Generation has started a
number of activities this year. Charles Callaway, David McDonald and Irene Geary
were elected as new regular members, David Reitter was elected as the student
member and Tilman Becker is staying on the board for another year.

The SIGGEN website is now located at
http://www.siggen.org
and it is hosted at DFKI. The content has been completely revised, including the
who-is-who. At the same time, the mailing-list which doubles as the membership
register has been validated and currently has 209 entries.
Also, a regular newsletter has been re-instated, the first issue May/June 2005 has just
been published.

SIGGEN is currently preparing for its main event, the bi-annual conference INLG.
A call for bids for INLG 2006 has been posted. In the last year, four events have
been officially sponsored by SIGGEN:

- EWNLG 2005, the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
  8-10 August 2005, in Aberdeen, Scotland (following IJCAI-2005 in Edinburgh)
  http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/ENLG-05/

- 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
  30th July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland (as part of IJCAI-2005)
  http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/CMNA5/

- Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
  July 14, in Birmingham, England (preceding Corpus Linguistics 2005)
  http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/

- Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation
  at the Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  July 7, 2005
  http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Tilman Becker,
       June 2005