8.1189, Confs: Intelligent Text Summarization

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Subject: 8.1189, Confs: Intelligent Text Summarization

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Date:  Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:35:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:  CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization

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Date:  Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:35:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:  CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization

		      INTELLIGENT TEXT SUMMARIZATION

	     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its

With the proliferation of online textual resources, it has become very
difficult to find information of interest. Improving access to online
information includes finding relevant documents (Information Retrieval) and
presenting only information that matches the user's interests (Text
Summarization).

In the recent very successful workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text
Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference, papers focused largely on
statistical approaches.  In this symposium, we aim to discuss also the
strengths of other, symbolic/rule-based, techniques.  We particularly
welcome contributions that address some of the fundamental issues
underlying summarization: what is a summary?  What is an abstract?  How
can one evaluate the quality of a summary?  The symposium will include
formal presentations and discussions of existing techniques and open
problems.  Using input from potential participants, the program committee
will present a series of questions to which attendees will be encouraged
to suggest approaches and solutions.

Sample topics:

  - Knowledge Representation Issues
  - AI and Statistical Techniques
  - Discourse Analysis and Discourse Planning
  - Concise Text Generation
  - Summarization of Multiple Documents
  - Generation of Updates
  - Architectures for Summarization
  - Multilingual and Multimodal Summarization
  - User Modeling
  - Scalability
  - Evaluation of Text Summarization


Potential participants should submit one of the following:

o     Full technical paper (PostScript, 11-point font, up to 5000 words).

o     Statement of interest (up to 1000 words):
        - description of an ongoing research effort,
        - position statement,
        - description of a problem to be discussed,
        - proposal for an activity related to text summarization that can
          take place at the symposium,
        - description of a completed summarization system, or
        - descriptions of tools, corpora, or other resources, especially if
          they can be shared with others.

o     Description of a demonstration or video.

Participants are encouraged to include URLs related to text summarization
(bibliographies, papers, projects, tools, corpora).

Selection will be made in the following order:

    1. people who present papers (one person per paper)
    2. other presenters
    3. collaborators of the above
    4. people with strong statements of interest
    5. others as space permits.


Send all submissions electronically to radev at cs.columbia.edu
If you are unsure whether your file will print at our site, please submit
four days before the deadline in order to receive a confirmation.

Dragomir Radev (co-chair)
  Department of Computer Science
  Columbia University
  1214 Amsterdam Avenue
  New York, NY 10027-7003, USA
  Phone: 1-212-939-7118
  Fax: 1-212-666-0140


			   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Branimir Boguraev   Apple Computer           bkb at research.apple.com
Michael Elhadad     Ben-Gurion University    elhadad at cs.bgu.ac.il
Eduard Hovy         USC/ISI                  hovy at isi.edu           (co-chair)
Inderjeet Mani      MITRE                    imani at mitre.org
Daniel Marcu        University of Toronto    marcu at cs.toronto.edu
Kathleen McKeown    Columbia University      kathy at cs.columbia.edu
Dragomir Radev      Columbia University      radev at cs.columbia.edu  (co-chair)
Amit Singhal        AT&T Research            singhal at research.att.com
Karen Sparck Jones  University of Cambridge  ksj at cl.cam.ac.uk
Stan Szpakowicz     University of Ottawa     szpak at csi.uottawa.ca

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