Corpora: 2nd CFP: COLING 2002 - Workshop on Multilingua Summarization and Question Answering

[Chin-Yew Lin]

                      2nd CFP

Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering 2002 
          (post-conference workshop to be held 
             in conjunction with COLING-2002) 

     August 31 and September 1, 2002 (1 and half days)
                   Taipei, Taiwan 

          http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/wsqa-coling2002

CALL FOR PAPERS
Growing interest in automated Question Answering is leading to the 
development of systems that go beyond 'factoids' to produce answers,
often 
drawn from multiple sources that contain multiple parts. Identifying 
relevant information and structuring it into a coherent text has however

been studied as part of the topic of automated Text Summarization. What
is 
the relationship between these two areas? Under what conditions are
summaries not good answers, and why not? What types of complex answers
exist? 
How can one evaluate such answers? How are these issues transformed when
we 
cross language boundaries?

We welcome submissions that address the following themes:
... Single document summarization
... Multiple document summarization
... Multilingual text summarization
... Cross-language question answering
... Summary type classification
... Answer type classification
... Multi-part answer type recognition (When do questions require
complex multi-part answers?)
... Multi-part answer extraction
... Complex summary or answer building block identification
... Structured summary creation
... Coherent and effective answer generation
... How to evaluate summaries?
... How to evaluate factoid answers?
... How to evaluate non-factoid answers?
... Corpora creation for complex summarization and QA
... Interfaces and support tools for complex summarization and QA

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Submissions must
use the ACL latex style or 
Microsoft Word style WSQA-submission.doc (both available from the here
workshop web page). Paper 
submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less,
exclusive of title page and 
references). Papers outside the specified length are subject to be
rejected without review. The 
paper should be written in English.

SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS
Word form of your submission 
to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "COLING2002 WORKSHOP PAPER
SUBMISSION". Because reviewing 
is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An
identification page must be sent 
in a separate email with the subject line: "COLING2002 WORKSHOP ID PAGE"
and must include title, all 
authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more
than 5 lines. Late submissions 
will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the
first author shortly after receipt.

DEADLINES
Paper submission deadline:             May 6, 2002
Notification of acceptance for papers: June 17, 2002
Camera ready papers due:               July 1, 2002
Workshop date:                         August 31 and September 1, 2002
(1 and half days)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, hh_chen at csie.ntu.edu.tw 
Chin-Yew Lin, USC/Information Sciences Institute, cyl at isi.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Regina Barzilay     Columbia University, USA 
Jason S Chang       National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 
Kuang-Hua Chen      National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
Junichi Fukumoto    Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Takahiro Fukusima   Otemon Gakuin University, Japan 
Udo Hahn            University of Freiburg, Germany 
Sanda Harabagiu     University of Texas, Dallas, USA 
Donna Harman        NIST, USA 
Eduard Hovy         USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA 
Noriko Kando        National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan 
Tsuneaki Kato       University of Tokyo, Japan 
Wessel Kraaij       TNO TPD, Netherlands 
Gary Geunbae Lee    POSTECH, South Korea 
Dekang Lin          University of Alberta, Canada 
Inderjeet Mani      MITRE Corporation, USA 
Daniel Marcu        USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA 
Mark Maybury        MITRE Corporation, USA 
Hwee Tou Ng         National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Manabu Okumura      Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
John Prager         IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA 
Hae-Chang Rim       Korea University, South Korea 
Horacio Saggion     University of Sheffield, UK 
Karen Spärck Jones  University of Cambridge, UK 
Tomek Strzalkowski  State University of New York, Albany, USA 
Ming Zhou           Microsoft Research China, China