A Challenge Proposal for Narrative Generation Using CNLs

We propose a competitive shared evaluation task for Narrative Generation. It would involve the generation of new stories for a given domain from common ground knowledge shared by all systems. A set of source materials will be provided for development, represented in Controlled Natural Language (CNL), which should also be used to phrase the text outputs of participating systems. By having all participating systems operate from the same sources for knowledge and generate in a compatible output format, comparability of the results will be enhanced. Submitted results will be subject to both automatic and human evaluation.