Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems
should be evaluated, with a particularly high degree of variation in the way that human …

Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

As information is available in abundance for every topic on internet, condensing the
important information in the form of summary would benefit a number of users. Hence, there …

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but
problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all …

Simple Wikipedia has dominated simplification research in the past 5 years. In this opinion
paper, we argue that focusing on Wikipedia limits simplification research. We back up our …

End users learn defensive security behaviors from a variety of channels, including a plethora
of security advice given in online articles. A great deal of effort is devoted to getting users to …

From advertisers and marketers to salespeople and leaders, everyone wants to hold
attention. They want to make ads, pitches, presentations, and content that captivates …

Building conversational agents that can conduct natural and prolonged conversations has
been a major technical and design challenge, especially for community-facing …

The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The
critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed …

We present a set of novel neural supervised and unsupervised approaches for determining
the readability of documents. In the unsupervised setting, we leverage neural language …