Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE)

Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Athens, 2009.

We describe the first installment of the Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE), a new shared task for the NLG community. We motivate the design of the challenge, describe how we carried it out, and discuss the results of the system evaluation.

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@InProceedings{ByrKolStrCasDalMooObe09, 
   author = {Donna Byron and Alexander Koller and Kristina 
             Striegnitz and Justine Cassell and Robert Dale and 
             Johanna Moore and Jon Oberlander}, 
   title  = {Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating 
             Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE)}, 
   year   = 2009, 
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural 
             Language Generation}, 
   address = {Athens} 
} 

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