[Corpora-List] CFP: Text Summarization Workshop ACL 2004

[Rik De Busser]

Text Summarization Branches Out

July 25-26, 2004.
Workshop at the ACL 2004 Forum Convention Centre
42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Barcelona, Spain

http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/conferences/acl_summarization2004.php

Call for papers

Text summarization is still largely in a research phase, and has so far
focused on news text, but it is increasingly becoming a tool for
information search and selection in a variety of media. For example,
summarizing is a necessity when showing content on the screen of a
mobile device. Texts integrated in multimedia documents have different
genres or types, but they all require the same flexibility in the
presentation of summaries by allowing parameterized compression rates
and integration in a mixed media format.
Text summarization has been so far dominated by statistical techniques.
However, for improved output quality and increased compression, other
techniques are expected to play important roles as well. Linguistically
motivated natural language processing techniques, including semantic
analysis and discourse analysis, are almost certainly required for
summarization in non-news genres. Automated reasoning techniques could
allow fusion and understanding of content. Machine learning, both
supervised and unsupervised, still has a major role to play. Finally,
evaluation is an ongoing concern. The proposed workshop aims to address
all these issues.
We invite submission of papers about text summarization including, but
not limited to, the following topics.

* Single-sentence compression
* Multiple-sentence compression and information fusion
* Domain-oriented summarization of multiple texts
* Comparative summarization of multiple reviews
* Summarization of Web pages
* Summarization of dialogue (e.g., blogs, video captions)
* Summarization of speech
* Summarization for mobile devices
* Summarization for other disciplines, e.g., legal or medical
applications
* Toward summarizing large, loosely structured texts (e.g., novels)
* Temporal and event semantics for summarization
* Data search structures for summaries of flexible and mixed media
format
* Automated and manual summary evaluation methods
* Quantifying summary quality

The workshop will feature an invited speaker (to be confirmed), and two
panels, one looking back and one looking far ahead, plus ad-hoc
discussion groups.

Important Dates

* Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2004
* Notification of acceptance for papers: April 25, 2004
* Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004
* Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004

Submission Procedure

Authors should submit full papers of maximum 8 pages, including
references and figures, following the main conference ACL style format.
Submissions should be sent to:
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/conferences/acl_summarization2004.php
.


Organizing Committee

* Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California, USA
* Marie-Francine Moens (co-chair), Interdisciplinary Centre for Law &
Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA
* Stan Szpakowicz (co-chair), School of Information Technology and
Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada

Program Committee

* Regina Barzilay, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab,
MIT, USA
* Hercules Dalianis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Chiori Hori, NTT, Japan
* Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California, USA
* Hongyan Jing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Kathy McKeown, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA
* Chin-Yew Lin, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California, USA
* Inderjeet Mani, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA
* Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California, USA
* Marie-Francine Moens, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information
Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA
* Horacio Rodriguez, Departamento de LSI, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain
* Horacio Saggion, Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield, UK
* Judith Schlesinger, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences, USA
* Karen Sparck Jones, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
* Stan Szpakowicz, School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Canada
* John Tait, School of Computing and Technology, University of
Sunderland, UK
* Simone Teufel, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
* Peter Turney, NRC Ottawa, Canada
* Hans van Halteren, Department of Language and Speech, University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Contact addresses

Marie-Francine Moens
Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tiensestraat 41
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
marie-france.moens at law.kuleuven.ac.be
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/staff/staff.php?id=13

Stan Szpakowicz
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
800 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5
Canada
szpak at site.uottawa.ca
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak