11.844, Confs: Workshop on Automatic Summarization-ANLP/NAACL

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Subject: 11.844, Confs: Workshop on Automatic Summarization-ANLP/NAACL

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Date:  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:  radev at si.umich.edu
Subject:  Workshop on Automatic Summarization - ANLP/NAACL

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Date:  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:  radev at si.umich.edu
Subject:  Workshop on Automatic Summarization - ANLP/NAACL

			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              ANLP/NAACL
                 Workshop on Automatic Summarization

                        Sunday, April 30, 2000

                             Westin Hotel
                          Seattle, WA 48103



			     REGISTRATION

			   (until April 20)
		  http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000


                               SCHEDULE


09:10-09:25 Introduction

09:25-10:15 Session on Content Selection

            09:25-09:50
            Concept Identification and Presentation in the Context of
            Technical Text Summarization
               Horacio Saggion and Guy Lapalme, DIRO-Universite de Montreal

            09:50-10:15
            Mining Discourse Markers for Chinese Textual Summarization
               Samuel W. K. Chan, Tom B. Y. Lai, W. J. Gao, and
               Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong

10:15-10:40 Session on Visualization

            10:15-10:40
            Multi-document Summarization by Visualizing Topical Content
               Rie Kubota Ando, Branimir K. Boguraev, Roy J. Byrd, and
               Mary S. Neff, Cornell University, and IBM Research

10:40-11:05 Coffee Break (provided)

11:05-12:20 Session on Multi-Document Summarization

            11:05-11:30
            Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents:
            sentence extraction, utility-based evaluation, and user
            studies
               Dragomir R. Radev, Hongyan Jing, Margo Budzikowska,
               University of Michigan, Columbia University, and IBM
               Research

            11:30-11:55
            Extracting Key Paragraph based on Topic and Event
            Detection - Towards Multi-Document Summarization
               Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki, Yamanashi University

            11:55-12:20
            Multi-Document Summarization By Sentence Extraction
               Jade Goldstein, Vibhu Mittal, Jaime Carbonell, and Mark
               Kantrowitz, Carnegie Mellon University and Just Research

12:20-01:50 Lunch Break (on your own)

01:50-03:05 Session on Evaluation

            01:50-02:15
            A Text Summarizer in Use: Lessons Learned from Real World
            Deployment and Evaluation
               Mary Ellen Okurowski, Harold Wilson, Joacquin Urbina,
               Tony Taylor, Ruth Colvin Clark, and Frank Krapcho,
               Department of Defense, SRA Corp, Clark Training &
               Consulting, and Kathpal Technologies Inc.

            02:15-02:40
            Evaluation of Phrase-representation Summarization based on
            Information Retrieval Task
               Mamiko Oka and Yoshihiro Ueda, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

            02:40-03:05
            A Comparison of Rankings Produced by Summarization
            Evaluation Measures
               Robert L.Donaway, Kevin W. Drummey, and Laura
               A. Mather, Department of Defense and Britannica.com, Inc.

03:05-03:30 Coffee Break (provided)

03:30-04:30 Panel on "Language Modeling in Text Summarization"

04:30-04:55 Session on Multimedia Summarization

            04:30-04:55
            Using Summarization for Automatic Briefing Generation
               Inderjeet Mani, Kristian Concepcion, and Linda van
               Guilder, MITRE Corporation

04:55-06:00 Panel on "Summarization: Industry Perspectives"

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