8.12, Calls: Summarization, Concept-to-Speech (CTS)

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Subject: 8.12, Calls: Summarization, Concept-to-Speech (CTS)

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1)
Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:51:40 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:  ACL/EACL Workshop on Summarization

2)
Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:22:49 +0000
From:  kai at mail4.ai.univie.ac.at
Subject:  Concept-to-Speech (CTS)

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:51:40 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:  ACL/EACL Workshop on Summarization

			ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop on
	       INTELLIGENT SCALABLE TEXT SUMMARIZATION
		 (at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
			    Madrid, Spain
			 July 11 or 12, 1997

                           CALL FOR PAPERS


             (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/ists97)

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line information in recent
years, demand for text summarization technology appears to be
growing. Commercial companies are increasingly starting to offer text
summarization capabilities, often bundled with information retrieval
tools. These recent developments offer opportunities as well as
substantial challenges for research in text summarization. In general,
such developments create a practical need for summarization systems
which scale up when applied to large volumes of unrestricted text.

At ACL'97/EACL'97, a particular challenge is to identify the niches
where natural language processing (NLP) can make an impact.  For
example, there are applications which require characterizing the
content of large text collections to support data mining functions,
but NLP has not been used much in such applications. Traditionally,
shallower techniques have been leveraged to achieve the desired levels
of scalability and domain-independence, but recent advances in robust
information extraction as well as approaches integrating statistical
and symbolic techniques open up possibilities for more powerful yet
scalable summarization techniques.

With the renewed interest in text summarization, another challenge is
to develop criteria to help evaluate different methodologies, in order
to better advise investors and the interested public on technology
choices. While there have been focused workshops in the past on text
summarization, they have pre-dated the tremendous expansion of on-line
information access fueled by the recent growth of the World Wide
Web. This workshop would bring together researchers interested in
advancing the scientific frontiers of text summarization to meet these
new practical challenges and opportunities.

Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of text
summarization, including, but not limited to:

* Statistical, linguistic, and knowledge-based techniques in
intelligent summarization
* Multimodal summarization strategies
* Exploiting advances in information extraction in summarization
* Text generation for scalable summarization
* Classification criteria for summarization systems
* Evaluation methods and metrics
* Summarization in operational contexts: requirements, architectures,
lessons learned
* Tailoring summaries to particular users, tasks, and contexts
* Theoretical foundations, including cognitive models
* Combining scalability with abstraction in summarization
* Summarization across multiple documents/sources
* Multilingual summarization

Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance,
and significance of results. Attendees at the workshop MUST register
for the main ACL/EACL conference.

			  PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Udo Hahn            University of Freiburg
Julian Kupiec       Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Inderjeet Mani      The MITRE Corporation     (co-chair)
Mark Maybury        The MITRE Corporation     (co-chair)
Kathy McKeown       Columbia University
Boyan Onyshkevych   US Department of Defense
Dragomir Radev      Columbia University
Lisa Rau            SRA International
Kazuo Tanaka        NTT Human Interface Laboratories

			SUBMISSION INFORMATION

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 15, 1997
Acceptance Notification: April 28, 1997

Interested participants should submit a previously unpublished paper
addressing a specific text summarization issue or reporting novel
methods and results. Authors should indicate whether the paper is
being submitted elsewhere. As the papers will be reviewed anonymously,
please do not include author names in the body of the paper; instead
provide a separate title page with title, author names and email
addresses. The paper length (excluding separate title page) should be
no longer than 8 pages. For email submissions, please submit
postscript. (If the postscript doesn't print properly here, you may
eventually have to submit a hardcopy, so please budget enough time for
that.) For hardcopy submissions, please submit FIVE copies of the
paper.

Please send submissions to:

Inderjeet Mani
The MITRE Corporation, W640
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd
McLean, VA 22102-3481, USA
Phone: 1-703-883-6149
Fax: 1-703-883-1279
Email: imani at mitre.org


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:22:49 +0000
From:  kai at mail4.ai.univie.ac.at
Subject:  Concept-to-Speech (CTS)



                  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
                          for the Workshop on
                "CONCEPT to SPEECH GENERATION SYSTEMS"
				
			Friday, July 11, 1997
				
		in conjunction with 35th Annual Meeting
    	of the Association for Computational Linguistics
		    (ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
		    July 7-11, 1997
		    Madrid, Spain

Information about the workshop can also be retrieved from:
http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~finkler/acl97-cts/index.html

- -------------------
FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
- -------------------

Concept-to-Speech (CTS) generation, i.e., the production of synthetic
speech on the basis of pragmatic, semantic, and discourse knowledge
offers a challenging and relatively new field of research in
intelligent user interfaces.  The questions raised in such an
environment range from pragmatics, semantics, and (morpho-)syntax to
phonology and phonetics. The modelling of prosody (at symbolic and
acoustic level) serves as one of the open questions within this
paradigm.  Obviously, the development of a CTS system is very
demanding. Successful work within the framework of CTS relies on the
ability to integrate efforts from a number of disciplines, such as
Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science,
and Signal Processing.  The workshop will provide a forum to bring
together researchers from the fields of natural language generation
and speech synthesis. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate
interchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of CTS
generation in order to bridge the gap between these fields.  Among the
challenging aspects of a CTS system, we propose to address issues of
the following list in the first place:

* How can systems for natural language generation be adapted in order
to utilize new realization options to the generation process that are
offered in the CTS framework?

* How can issues in the time-course of the interleaved process for
generation and synthesis (when-to-say) be dealt with? Which
requirements on speech synthesis are to be fulfilled in an incremental
approach to spoken language production?

* Due to its inherent integrational property, being influenced by a
whole number of representational levels, modelling of prosody will be
one of the major topics of the workshop.

* How can approaches in the Text-to-Speech tradition to synthesis show
their adaptability to Concept-to-Speech?

We invite contributions that provide solutions to any of the topics
indicated above or that present innovative applications addressing the
abovementioned issues.

- ----------------
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- ----------------

Robert BANNERT      Univ. of Umea, Sweden
John   BATEMAN,     GMD Darmstadt, Germany
Mary   BECKMAN,     Ohio State Univ., USA
Carlos GUSSENHOVEN, Univ. of Nijmegen, The Neatherlands
Bjorn  GRANSTROeM,  KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Elisabeth MAIER,    DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
Scott  PREVOST,     MIT Boston, USA
Mark   STEEDMAN,    Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

- -------------
WORKSHOP FORMAT
- -------------

The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations as well as group discussions. In the
presentation part, authors of accepted papers will describe their
results and positions (about 30 minutes each). A plenary discussion of
about one hour length will take place.

- ------------------------
REQUIREMENTS & SUBMISSIONS
- ------------------------

Authors should submit a full length paper not exceeding 3200 words
(exclusive of references). Due to tight time constraints, initial
submissions and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically.
Joint submissions with the `Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems'
ACL/EACL workshop are allowed. If there are sufficient joint
submissions a joint session may be scheduled. Please indicate on the
title page that your abstract is a joint submission. Submissions must
use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL
LISTSERV server via anonymous ftp:

	ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
	Name: anonymous
	Password: <your email address>
	cd acl-l/ACL97
	get aclsub.sty

Submissions have to be mailed as a single LaTeX file or a single
postscript file. Mails should be sent to cts-97 at ai.univie.ac.at
and formatted as follows:

 To: cts-97 at ai.univie.ac.at
 Subject: CTS 97 Submission
 --text follows this line--
 title: <title of submission>
 authors: <authors as they appear on the title page>
 word count:
 email: <email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed>
 ----------------------------body------------------------------
 <Body of submission>

- -------------
IMPORTANT DATES
- -------------

March  1, 1997   Deadline for submission of papers
April  1  1997   Notification of acceptance
April 21, 1997   Deadline for final version of papers
	
- ------------
IMPORTANT NOTE
- ------------

As this workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97
conference, participants of the workshop are obliged to register for
the main conference as well.  Conference registration details can be
obtained via WWW from the ACL/EACL-97 home page
http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/

- ------------------
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- ------------------

Kai ALTER             Hannes PIRKER             Wolfgang FINKLER
kai at ai.univie.ac.at   hannes at ai.univie.ac.at    finkler at dfki.uni-sb.de

     Austrian Research Inst. for AI         German Research Inst. for AI
                (OFAI)                                (DFKI)


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