8.1373, Calls: Formal Ling, Text Summarization
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Subject: 8.1373, Calls: Formal Ling, Text Summarization
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:59:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leora Anne Barel <leora at unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVII
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:08:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Second CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text
Summarization
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:59:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leora Anne Barel <leora at unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVII
WCCFL XVII
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
University of British Columbia
February 20-22, 1998
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of linguistics from
any theoretical perspective. There will be two special sessions in
addition to the main program. Abstracts may be submitted to the main
program or either of the special sessions.
*Special Sessions: Interfaces*
Invited speakers will be presenting at the following 2 special sessions:
Lisa Selkirk, UMass: Phonology/Syntax Interface
Angelika Kratzer, UMass: Syntax/Semantics Interface
Abstract Requirements
Abstracts should be no more than one standard size page in length with the
option of including an additional page for data and references. Abstracts
should be in at least 11-point type with 1-inch margins, single-spaced.
Please mail ten anonymous copies as well as a 3" x 5" index card with the
following information:
title
name of author(s)
mailing address
affiliation(s)
area (phonology, syntax, semantics...)
phone number (optional)
e-mail address (optional)
Please specify on your index card if you are submitting your
abstract to either of the special sessions. Submissions are limited to 1
individual and 1 joint abstract per author. Please do not send abstracts
by e-mail.
*ABSTRACTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 14, 1997*
Abstracts should be sent to:
WCCFL XVII COMMITTEE
Department of Linguistics
University of British Columbia
E270-1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA V6T 1Z1
Information will be made available at the WCCFL web site:
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/msr/WCCFL.html
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:08:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Second 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.
Submissions for the symposium are due on October 24, 1997. Notification of
acceptance will be given by November 14, 1997. Materials to be included in
the working notes of the symposium must be received by January 17, 1998.
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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