[Corpora-List] Final CFP - MSQA-Eval 2004 to held with IJCNLP-04

[Chin-Yew Lin]

CALL FOR PAPERS

WORKSHOP ON MULTILINGUAL SUMMARIZATION AND QUESTION ANSWERING 2004

Workshop on 
Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering (2004)
- Towards Systematizing and Automatic Evaluations

(post-conference workshop in conjunction with IJCNLP-04)

March 25, 2004
Hainan Island, China 

WEB SITE: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/msqa-eval-ijcnlp04

[INTRODUCTION]
Automatic summarization and question answering (QA) are now enjoying a 
period of revival and they are advancing at a much quicker pace than before.
Recently in the United States, TREC started an English QA track in 1999 and
DUC sponsored by NIST also started a new English summarization evaluation
series in 2001. In Japan, NTCIR project included Japanese text summarization
task in 2000 and QA task in 2001. 

One major challenge of these large scale evaluation efforts is how we can 
evaluate summarization and QA systems systematically and automatically. In
other words, is there a consistent and principled way in estimating the
quality of any summarization and QA systems accurately and can we automate
the evaluation process? The release of the "Framework for Machine
Translation Evaluation in ISLE (FEMTI)" and the recent adoption of the
automatic evaluation metrics, BLEU and NIST, in the machine translation
community are good examples that we might be able to find leverage from and
extend them to summarization and QA evaluations. A good example in automatic
evaluation of summaries is the ROUGE method developed at the Information
Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. 

This workshop focuses on automatic summarization and QA, and enable
participants to discuss the integration of multiple languages and multiple
functions and most importantly how to robustly estimate quality of
summarization and QA. We also welcome submissions related to any aspects of
summarization and QA with main sections dedicated to evaluation. 

[FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS]
      Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Submissions
must use the ijc-NLP LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files
tailored for ijc-NLP. The ijc-NLP style files can be found here. Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, exclusive of
title page and references). Papers outside the specified length are subject
to be rejected without review. The paper should be written in English. 

[SUBMISSION QUESTIONS]
      Please send submission questions to Chin-Yew Lin [cyl at isi.edu]. 

[SUBMISSION PROCEDURE]
      Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or
MS Word form of your submission to: Chin-Yew Lin [cyl at isi.edu]. The 
Subject line should be "IJCNLP-04 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because 
reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the 
paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the 
subject line: "IJCNLP-04 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all 
authors, theme area (i.e. summarization, QA, or both), keywords, word 
count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not 
be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author 
shortly after receipt. 

[DEADLINES (Tentative)]
      Paper submission deadline: Dec 12, 2003
      Notification of acceptance for papers: January 10, 2004
      Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
      Workshop date: March 25, 2004

[PROGRAM CHAIRS]
      Hang Li Microsoft Research, Asia, China
      Chin-Yew Lin USC/ISI, USA

[PROGRAM COMMITTEE]
      Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
      Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      Junichi Fukumoto, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
      Takahiro Fukusima, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
      Donna Harman, NIST, USA
      Hongyan Jing, IBM Research, USA
      Tsuneaki Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan
      Gary Geunbae Lee, Postech, South Korea
      Bernardo Magnini, Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC)/IRST, Italy
      Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan
      Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
      John Prager, IBM Research, USA
      Drago Radev, University of Michigan, USA
      Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University, UK
      Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK
      Benjamin K Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, China