Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research

   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion/ranlp2005-summarization.html

		Workshop to be help in conjunction with


			  *** RANLP 2005 ***

			  Borovets - Bulgaria

	           http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005

	             *** 24th of September 2005 ***


OVERVIEW

The ever-increasing availability of  on-line textual databases and the
development of  the Internet have  made of Text Summarization  a major
research  topic.   The   international  research  community  has  made
outstanding contributions to Text Summarization since the seminal 1993
Dagstuhl Seminar on  Text Summarization for Intelligent Communication,
however several  problems still  need to be  addressed and  new issues
have emerged  as a result  of technological advances.   The ``Crossing
Barriers  in Text  Summarization  Research'' workshop  will cover  the
following topics:

* Coreference and Summarization
* Crosslingual Summarization
* Evaluation
* Multidocument Summarization
* Multimedia Summarization
* Question Answering and Summarization
* Speech Summarization



PROGRAMME

09:00 - 09:10: Welcome

09:10 - 10:00: Invited Talk

Graphs  everywhere:  Novel   methods  for  summarization  and  natural
language processing.  Dragomir R. Radev


10:00 - 11:00: Papers

10:00 - 10:30 Making Better Summary Evaluations. John Tait

10:30 - 11:00 Task-Based Evaluation of Anaphora  Resolution: The Case
of  Summarization.  Mijail  A.  Kabadjov, Massimo  Poesio,  and  Josef
Steinberger


11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00: Papers


11:30 - 12:00  Extending Answers  using Discourse  Structure.  Wauter
  Bosma

12:00 - 12:30  Summarizing  Spontaneous Speech  Using  General  Text
Properties.  Maria Fuentes, Edgar  Gonzalez, Horacio  Rodriguez, Jordi
Turmo, and Laura Alonso

12:30 - 13:00   Evaluation   of  Sentence   Selection  for   Speech
Summarization. Xiaodan Zhu and Gerald Penn


13:00 - 15:00: Lunch

15:00 - 16:30: Papers

15:00  -   15:30  Automatic  Generation  of   Term  Definitions  using
Multidocument  Summarisation from the  Web.  Rafael  Torralbo, Enrique
Alfonseca, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, and Jose Maria Guirao

15:30 - 15:55 Towards  the Automatic Summarization of Medical Articles
in Spanish: Integration of  textual, lexical, discursive and syntactic
criteria.  Iria da Cunha and Leo Wanner

15:55 - 16:20 Thematic Extraction,  Syntactic Sentence Simplification
and Bilingual  Generation towards Crosslingual  Summarization. Gael de
Chalendar, Romaric Besancon, Olivier Ferret, Gregory Grefenstette, and
Olivier Mesnard

16:30 - 17:00: Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:15: Papers


17:00 - 17:25 Novalist:  Content Reduction for  Cross-media Browsing.
 Franciska de Jong and Wessel Kraaij

17:25 - 17:50 A Reflection of the Whole Picture Is Not Always What You
Want, But That is What We Give You.  Martin Hassel and Jonas Sjobergh

17:50 - 18:15 Co-referential Chaining for  Coherent Summaries through
Rhetorical  and Linguistic  Modeling.  Eloize  Rossi Marques  Seno and
Lucia Helena Machado Rino

18:15 - 19:00: Round Table

19:00 - 19:10: Farewell



ORGANIZATION

Horacio Saggion (Organizer) 
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
saggion@dcs.shef.ac.uk


Jean-Luc Minel (Co-organizer)
LaLLIC 
Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne 
Paris - France


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE



Gustavo Crispino, LaLLIC, Universite de Paris IV, France 

Hercules Dalianis, KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden 

Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 
Germany 

Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Techology, USA 

Hongyan Jing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore,
 Singapore 

Choy-Kim Chuah, Universiti Sains, Malaysia 

Guy    Lapalme,   Departement    d'informatique   et    de   recherche
operationnelle, Universite de Montreal, Canada 

Lehmam, Abderrafih,  Pertinence Mining, Paris, France

Chin-Yew Lin, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern 
California, USA 

Inderjeet Mani, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA 

Jean-Luc Minel (Co-organizer), LaLLIC, Universite de Paris IV, France 

Marie-France  Moens, Interdisciplinary  Centre for  Law  & Information
Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Constantin Orasan, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies, 
University of Wolverhampton, UK 

Dragomir  Radev, School  of Information  and Department  of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA 

Horacio Rodriguez, Department de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, 
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Horacio   Saggion  (Organizer),   Department   of  Computer   Science,
University of Sheffield, UK 

Stan Szpakowicz, School of Information Technology and Engineering, 
University of Ottawa, Canada 

Simone Teufel, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 

Dina Wonsever, INCO, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay


CONTACT US

e-mail: saggion@dcs.shef.ac.uk