NAACL'01 Automatic Summarization Workshop--DEADLINE EXTENSION

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
(pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001)

Sunday, June 3, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
sponsored by

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

MITRE Corporation

New submission deadline: February 23, 2001

Organizing Committee:
Jade Goldstein  Carnegie Mellon University         jade+ at cs.cmu.edu
Chin-Yew Lin    USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu

Program Committee:
Breck Baldwin                            Baldwin Language Tech
Hsin-Hsi Chen                            National Taiwan University
Udo Hahn                                 Universitaet Freiburg
Eduard Hovy                              USC/Information Sciences Institute
Hongyan Jing                             Columbia University
Elizabeth Liddy                          Syracuse University
Daniel Marcu                             USC/Information Sciences Institute
Inderjeet Mani                           MITRE
Shigeru Masuyama                         Toyohashi University of Technology
Marie-Francine Moens                     Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Vibhu Mittal                             Google Research
Sung Hyon Myaeng                         Chungnam National University
Akitoshi Okumura                         NEC
Chris Paice                              Lancaster University
Dragomir Radev                           University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Karen Sparck-Jones                       University of Cambridge
Tomek Strzalkowski                       State University of New York,
Albany
Simone Teufel                            Columbia University

Workshop Website:
http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update)



I.   OVERVIEW

II.  CALL FOR PAPERS

III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION



I. OVERVIEW

The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges
in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and
tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL,
AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this
field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There
have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94,
ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All
of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period
of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001
is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem.





II. CALL FOR PAPERS

The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers
addressing (but not limited to):



Summarization Methods:

                  use of linguistic representations,

                  statistical models,

                  NL generation for summarization,

                  production of abstracts and extracts,

                  multi-document summarization,

                  narrative techniques in summarization,

                  multilingual summarization,

                  text compaction,

                  multimodal summarization (including summarization of
audio),

                  use of information extraction,

                  studies and modeling of human summarizers,

                  improving summary coherence,

                  concept fusion,

                  use of thesauri and ontologies,

                  trainable summarizers,

                  applications of machine learning,

                  knowledge-rich methods.



Summarization Resources:

                  development of corpora for training and evaluating
summarizers,

                  annotation standards,

                  shared summarization tools,

                  document segmentation,

                  topic detection, and

                  clustering related to summarization.



Evaluation Methods:

                  intrinsic and extrinsic measures,

                  on-line and off-line evaluations,

                  standards for evaluation,

                  task-based evaluation scenarios,

                  user studies,

                  inter-judge agreement.



Workshop Themes:



1. Summarization Applications

2. Multidocument Summarization

3. Multilingual Text Summarization

4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora

5. Generation for Summarization

6. Topic Identification for Summarization

7. Integration with Web and IR Access



III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style
WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop
web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or
less, including references).



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
"NAACL2001 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: "NAACL2001 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 (Tentative)



Paper submission deadline: Feburary 23, 2001
Notification of acceptance for papers: March 23, 2001
Camera ready papers due: April 6, 2001
Workshop date: June 3, 2001